Computers and Society

Fall 2012

UTM  University of Toronto

Text:
Michael J. Quinn,  Ethics for the Information Age, 5th edition}, 
Addison Wesley, 2013<br>

Additional References:
Several of these are on short term loan in the library.  
The Tavani, Baase and Bower texts have been used as course texts in 
previous offerings of CSC 300.

Herman Tavani, Ethics and Technology.  Ethical Issues in an 
Age of Information and Communication Technologies, Wiley, 2003
Saara Baase, A Gift of Fire, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 2002
Kevin Bower, Ethics and Computing, 2nd ed., IEEE Press, 2001
Richard A. Spinello, Herman Tavani eds, Readings in 
CyberEthics, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004
Deborah G. Johnson, Computer Ethics, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 2001

WWW Sites and On-line Readings:
In addition there are web sites and on-line readings for every topic in 
the course, thousands in all.  
Before the advent of the Web, newsgroups were a primary source
of information exchange on the Internet, and they are still of interest.  
Here are some relevant to the course:
comp.risks, comp.society, comp.society.privacy, comp.society.futures,
comp.society.cu-digest.

Within the University of Toronto there are two groups that have 
maintained discussions on matters related to CSC300 for several years.
At the McLuhan Centre Dr. Liss Jeffery has the E-Commons, 
www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/lissjeffrey.htm,
focusing on how the Internet can promote a "civil society" in Canada.
At the Munk Centre the Citizen Lab, www.citizenlab.org
operates in much the same fashion.

Readings from the reading assignments and Web sites are organized to
correspond with the lectures.  You should read
as much as possible before the corresponding class.

Other sources of material regarding Computers and Society and Computers 
and Ethics.

http://www.emr.org/linksUCE.html