Project 28: Ethics

Post date: Feb 01, 2011 6:5:49 AM

Ethics and social implications

Investigate and report on copyright, DMCA, EULAs, workplace issues, malware, or other approved topic.

A guide has been written up to navigate us through this subject and will be distributed in class and then published here. It includes several other approved topics and many links which are not clickable on either the paper or the PDF, so they are summarized below. Possibly the most important link is to the discussion group where you will contribute your own insights and opinions.

• College Board hosted ethics material

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy—Computer Ethics: Basic Concepts and Historical Overview

• Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice

• Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act

• Communications Decency Act

• USA PATRIOT Act

• DMCA Summary

• Study Guide: Legal and Ethical Aspects of the Internet

• Code Cases

You should make the original contribution of approximately three paragraphs to one of the prompts by Saturday when rough drafts are normally due, March 4. Two responses, including one made to another student’s main contribution, should be made by the following Friday when final drafts are normally due, March 10.

Your contributions will be evaluated according to a rubric for discussion boards that has been borrowed and modified from public sources. Middle Tennessee State University gets credit for this one.