1. Brown, Geoffrey.The Information Game: Ethical Issues in a Microchip World. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 163. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce technology and computers as moral issues. Chapters 3 and 4 consider the potentials for intentional and unintentional harm associated with computers. Chapters 5 and 6 focus on the threats to and problems of privacy. Chapter 7 assesses the claim that computers are dehumanizing. Chapter 8 examines the ownership of software. Chapter 9 concludes by arguing that the uses of computers constitutes a game with rules that societies are free to alter to their benefit.
2. Bynum, Terrell W., ed.Computers and Ethics, New York: Blackwell, 1985. First published as a special theme issue ofMetaphilosophy, vol. 16, no. 4 (October 1985), pp. 263–377. Contents: James H. Moor’s influential and often cited "What Is Computer Ethics?," Deborah G. Johnson’s "Should Computer Programs Be Owned?," John W. Snapper’s "Responsibility for Computer-Based Errors," William Bechtel’s "Attributing Responsibility to Computer Systems," and Dan Lloyd’s "Frankenstein’s Children: Artificial Intelligence and Human Value." Followed by book reviews, discussions articles on teaching about and with computers, and a bibliography.
3. Christians, Clifford G., Kim B. Rotzoll, and Mark Fackler, eds.Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 3rd edition. New York: Longman, 1991. pp. xviii, 445. (First edition: 1983.) Part one deals with news; part two, persuasion (advertising and public relations); part three, entertainment with cases on censorship, confidentiality, conflict of interest, deception, economic pressures, privacy, sensationalism, etc. in eight media: books, magazines, motion pictures, newspapers, photographs, radio, records, TV, and video. No mention of computers or the Internet, although there should be. Complemented by Thomas W. Cooper, with Clifford G. Christians, Frances Forde Plude, and Robert A. White, eds.,Communication Ethics and Global Change (New York: Longman, 1989), which contains articles on media ethics in Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, and ten other countries, and at least mentions computers.
4. Dunlop, Charles, and Rob Kling, eds.Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices. Boston: Academic Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 758. Part VII (of seven), devoted to "Ethical Perspectives and Professional Responsibilities," following an introduction by Dunlop and Kling, includes John Ladd’s "Computers and Moral Responsibility: A Framework for an Ethical Analysis," Kling’s "When Organizations Are Perpetrators: Assumptions about Computer Abuse and Computer Crime," the ACM Code of Professional Conduct, Hal Sackman’s "A Prototype IFIP Code of Ethics Based on Participative International Consensus," Terry A. Winograd’s "Strategic Computing Research and the Universities," Carl Barus’s "Military Influence on the Electrical Engineering Curriculum since World War II," and Joseph Weizenbaum’s "Against the Imperialism of Instrumental Reason."
5. Ermann, M. David, Mary B. Williams, and Claudio Gutierrez, eds.Computers, Ethics, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 376. Thirty-four readings divided into three categories: ethics in general, computers and social ideals (of privacy, personal life, work, and justice), and issues facing computer professionals (justice, law, and moral responsibility). Uneven, and lacks any references to further readings other than what is contained in the notes.