A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology

by Sara Baase

Book Overview

For courses in Computer Ethics and Computers and Society. An objective study of technology ethics that inspires critical thinking and debate In Gift of Fire, A: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132492679
• ISBN13: 9780132492676
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Decent, as far as text books go.

A lot of common sense. The case studies and Thorac 25 are probably the most interesting part of this book. I've read worse in my college career.

Legal Issues and Ethics

I use this text in a college course on Ethics in Computer Information Systems. It covers a lot of information and is not just based on computer issues. Excellent presentation.

Excellent Primer--for the Completely Uninitiated

This is an ethics book of course, so I will keep the writing short: This book is written very well, and is suitable for someone whose never taken an ethics course before--which wasn't me, but I changed majors and info-tech ethics was required. The exercises are the most valuable part of the book but it will take a good teacher to make the most out of them: I got lucky there. Baase does a very good job of hitting all the high-notes and gray-area cases that have popped up in the last 20 or so years as a result of new technologies. But at the end of the course I didn't feel I ended up taking anything away that I couldn't have learned by myself. The book is really very wordy in my opinion--even for an ethics book--and doesn't hit enough ethical theory for my taste. It's great for its target market though, but don't think it'll work magic if you've already had some 'traditional' ethics courses.

Excellent textbook, unexpectedly thought-provoking

This was used as my text book for a graduate level ethics course. I read it cover to cover and found to be well-organized, informative and enlightening. Highly recommended.

A GIFT OF FIRE

IN GIFT OF FIRE SARA BAASE ATTEMPTS TO COVER THE FULL RANGE OF SOCIAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL ISSUES RAISED BY COMPUTING.