Who Regulates Ethics in the Virtual World?

This paper attempts to give an insight into emerging ethical issues due to the increased usage of the Internet in our lives. We discuss three main theoretical approaches relating to the ethics involved in the information technology (IT) era: first, the use of IT as a tool; second, the use of social...

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Publicado en:Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 19 - 29
Autores principales: Sharma, Seemu, Lomash, Hitashi, Bawa, Seema
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2015
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