This website provide helpful resources (organized using a logical hierarchy of literature in the field) for doing research on topics dealing with computers and society and computer ethics — curated links to books, research reports, law review articles, laws and regulations (from across the globe), essays and blogs, newspaper articles, and other relevant sources of information.
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Latest Books:
Here are some books that provide an overview to the field of Computers and Society:
- Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do, by Ron Baecker, 2021
- Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, by Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne, 2019
- Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives, by Ron Baecker, 2019
- A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology, by Sara Baase, 2017
- What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, by Tim O’Reilly, 2017
- Machine of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground between Human and Robots, by John Markoff, 2015
- The Internet is Not the Answer, by Andrew Keen, 2015
- Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier, 2014
- Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, by Rob Kling, 1991
- Perspectives on the Computer Revolution (2nd Edition), by Zeon W. Pylyshyn & Liam J. Bannon, 1989
Check out other books here.
Latest Law Review Articles:
- Avatars in the metaverse: potential legal issues and remedies, International Cybersecurity Law Review 2022
- as found in the AI category
- There’s No Place Like Dot-Com: Are Websites Places of Public Accommodation Under Title III of the ADA? Boston College Law Review 2022
- as found in the Digital Inclusion category
- Federally Mandated Online Sales Tax: A Logistical Solution for the Future of E-Commerce, DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal 2022
- as found in the Collaboration Technology category
- The Patentability of Inventions with Artificial Intelligence Listed as an Inventor Following Thaler v. Hirshfeld, University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal 2022
- as found in the Digital media, IP, and cultural industries category
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