ICT ethics bibliography 2012---2014: a select list of recent books

Forty-five recent books that examine ethical, social, legal and policy issues in information and communication technology (ICT) are identified and annotated below. Each work has a publisher’s date of 2011 or later. For information about books published between 1997 and 2011, see the ICT-ethics bibliographies included in nine previous issues of Ethics and Information Technology: Vol. 1, No. 1 (1999); Vol. 2, No. 1 (2000); Vol. 3, No. 1 (2001); Vol. 4, No. 2 (2002); Vol. 5, No. 3 (2003); Vol. 6, No. 2 (2004); Vol. 7, No. 4 (2005); Vol. 10, No. 2 (2008); and Vol. 12, No. 4 (2010). A comprehensive list of books and articles published before 1997 is included in my Bibliography of Computing, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (http:// cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/biblio/index.htm). Janet Abbate. Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012; 247 pages. ISBN 978-0262018067. Includes five chapters: 1. Breaking Codes and Finding Trajectories: Women at the Dawn of the Digital Age; 2. Seeking the Perfect Programmer: Gender and Skill in Early Data Processing; 3. Software Crisis or Identity Crisis? Gender, Labor, and Programming Methods; 4. Female Entrepreneurs: Reimagining Software as a Business; 5. Gender in Academic Computing: Alternative Career Paths and Norms. Also includes an Introduction (titled ‘‘Rediscovering Women’s History in Computing’’) and an Appendix (titled ‘‘Oral History Interviews Conducted for This Project’’). Christina Akrivopoulou and Athanasios-Efstratios Psygkas, editors. Personal Data Privacy and Protection in a Surveillance Era: Technologies and Practices. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013; 402 pages. ISBN: 978-1609600839. Includes eighteen readings that cover a wide range of topics and issues affecting privacy and surveillance in the context of various emerging technologies. Anita Allen. Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? New York: Oxford University Press, 2011; 281 pages. ISBN 978-0195141375. Includes eight chapters organized into two main parts: Part I: Physical Privacies—Place and Body, and Part II: Information Privacies. Also includes an Introduction and an Afterword. [This book is reviewed in Ethics and Information Technology (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2013).] Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh Anderson, editors. Machine Ethics. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2011; 546 pages. ISBN: 978-0521112352. Includes thirty-one chapters organized into five main parts: Part I. The Nature of Machine Ethics; Part II. The Importance of Machine Ethics; Part III. Issues Concerning Machine Ethics; Part IV. Approaches to Machine Ethics; and Part V. Visions for Machine Ethics. Also includes a ‘‘General Introduction’’ contributed by the editors. Sara Baase. A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2013; 496 pages. ISBN: 0132492679. Organized into nine chapters: (1) Unwrapping the Gift; (2) Privacy; (3) Freedom of Speech; (4) Intellectual Property; (5) Crime; (6) Work; (7) Evaluating and Controlling Technology; (8) Errors, Failures, and Risk; and (9) Professional Ethics and Responsibilities. Also includes an Epilogue. Mark Bauerlein, editor. The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2011; 368 pages. ISBN 978-1101547526. Includes twentyseven articles organized into three main sections: Section H. T. Tavani (&) Department of Philosophy, Rivier University, Nashua, NH 03060, USA e-mail: htavani@rivier.edu