Netethiquette References
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• reference pages:
  • the comprehensive Electronic Documents Policy Information Site at U.N.S.W.;
  • Vicnet's valuable Politics, Activists, Civil Liberties and Freedom Page;
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation's 'civil liberties' collection;
  • the EFF's censorship and free expression pages;
  • Electronic Frontier Australia's pages, including submissions to government agencies on relevant matters;
  • The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) gopher server;
  • The ACLU's pages on 'civil liberties in cyberspace';
  • John Perry Barlow's library;
  • the Uni. of Cincinnati's international human rights database;
  • ISWorld Net's 'cyberethics' department;
  • Yahoo's pages on civil rights;
  • Yahoo's pages on cyberculture;
  • Brigitte Jellinek's somewhat dated, but still valuable, collection on civil liberties in cyberspace (all the way from Salzburg);
• teaching materials:
  • Graham Greenleaf's Cyberspace Law unit at U.N.S.W., Sydney;
  • Hal Abelson's unit on Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier at MIT;
• codes of ethics and proposals for codes:
  • Netiquette Guidelines (Internet RFC 1855);
  • Matthew Ciolek's Internet ethics and etiquette at the A.N.U.;
  • the University of Southern Queensland's policies and procedures;
  • the Aspen Institute's 'Information Bill of Rights and Responsibilities';
  • Robert Macarthur's 'Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Electronic Learners' at QUT in Brisbane;
  • the 'Declarations' prepared at the end of the Durango Conference on 'Society and the Future of Computing' in June 1995;
  • the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR);
  • the Australian Computer Society's Code of Ethics;
  • a Julie Cameron paper on ethics;
• some specific items:
  • Howard Rheingold's 'The Virtual Community', also available in bookshops everywhere (Secker & Warburg);
  • Mitch Kapor's 1991 Scientific American article;
  • Nan Levinson's 1992 paper on 'New Communications Technologies and Traditional Civil Liberties';
  • Roger Clarke's pages on 'netethiquette';
  • Roger Clarke's short paper on 'The Information Age as Threat';
  • Roger Clarke's paper on cyberspace's impact on rights and liberties.

Some Hard-Copy References

Bergin T.J. 'Teaching Ethics, Teaching Ethically' Comp. & Soc. 21, 2-4 (October 1991) 33-39

Clarke R. 'Economic, Legal and Social Implications of IT' MIS Quarterly 12,4 (December 1988) 516-519

Clarke R. ''Social Implications of IT - The Professional's Role' Austral. Comp. J. 22,2 (May 1990)

Erman M.D., Williams M.B. & Gutierrez C. (Eds.) 'Computers, Ethics and Society' Oxford U.P., 1990

Dejoie R., Fowler G. & Paradice D. (Eds.) 'Ethical Issues in Information Systems: A Book of Readings' Southwestern Publishing, Cincinatti OH, 1991

Forester T. & Morrison P. 'Computer Ethics' Blackwell, 1990

Martin C.D. & Martin D.H. 'Professional Codes of Conduct and Computer Ethics Education' Comp. & Soc. 20,2 (June 1990) 18-29

Neumann P. 'Risks to the Public in Computer Systems' Section in ACM Software Engineering Notes, newsgroup comp.risks and digest risks.digest

Johnson D.G. 'Computer Ethics' Prentice-Hall, 1985

Johnson D.G. & Snapper J.W. 'Ethical Issues in the Use of Computers' Wadsworth, 1985

Rheingold H. 'The Virtual Community' Secker & Wraburg, 1994

Sackman H. 'Toward an IFIP Code of Ethics Based on Participative International Consensus' in Clarke R. & Cameron J. 'Managing Information Technology's Organisational Impact' Elsevier/North Holland, 1991 425-436

Stoll C. 'The Cuckoo's Egg' The Bodley head, 1989

Stoll C. 'Silicon Snake-Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway' Doubleday, 1995

Weiss E.A. (Ed.) 'Self-Assessment Procedure XXII - Ethics' Commun. ACM 33,11 (November 1990) 110-132

Acknowledgements

These is a revised version of references originally prepared for invited address at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba on 26 April 1995. It was signficantly extended for another to the 'New Rights' Seminar Series of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties at Mietta's in Melbourne, on 13 September 1995.

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