Whatever happened to information systems ethics? Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 143, Issue , 2004, Pages 159-174

  Bell, Frances ^a   Adam, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer ethics; Education; Information systems; Information systems development methodologies

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER ETHICS; DEEP BLUE; ETHICAL THEORIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; MANCHESTER; TEACHING AND LEARNING; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84902507439     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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