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Ethical Issues of Information Systems

Ethical Issues of Information Systems
Author(s)/Editor(s): Ali Salehnia (South Dakota State University, USA)
Copyright: ©2002
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-93177-715-5
ISBN13: 9781931777155
ISBN10: 1931777152
EISBN13: 9781931777278

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Understanding, appreciating and taking corrective steps to maintain and enhance social and ethical responsibility in the information age is important not only because of our increased dependence on information and communication technologies, but also because information and communication technologies pose complex challenges. Ethical Issues of Information Systems strives to address these pertinent issues. This scholarly and academic book provides insight on many topics of debate and discussion in the field and lends the most recent research in the field of IT ethics and social responsibility.



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Author's/Editor's Biography

Ali Salehnia (Ed.)
Alireza Salehnia has a Ph.D. in Technology Teaching from the University of Missouri, Columbia, 1989, an M.B.A. in Business Administration from the Central State University of Edmond, Oklahoma, 1977, and a B.A. in Cost Accounting from the Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting, 1975. He has been a professor of Computer Science at South Dakota State University, Brookings since 1998 and, since 2001, is the acting department head of the Computer Science Department at South Dakota State University, Brookings. From 1984-1989, Dr. Salehnia was an assistant of the Computer Science Department at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri; from 1989-1992, he was an assistant of the Computer Science Department at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota; and in 1992, he was an associate professor of the Computer Science Department at South Dakota State University, Brookings. He has been the coordinator of IBM Partner in Education AS/400 Machine since 2000. Dr. Salehnia was a visiting scholar to NASA-EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1995, and he attended a National Science Foundation Workshop on Ethical Issues in Computing in 1996. He has published more than 30 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings, and has presented more than 35 technical papers in national and international conferences. Dr. Salehnia has served as thesis and/or design/research papers advisor on more than 20 Graduate Computer Science or Industrial Management master’s students, and has served on the final oral examination of more than 40 graduate students. He has reviewed 23 textbooks for different publishers, and has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of Cases in Information Technology and Management in Organizations. Dr. Salehnia has reviewed more than 30 technical papers for the Journal of Information Resource Management, the ACM’s SIGCSE, SIGCE, and the Information Management Association International Conferences. He has served as a member of the program committee for IRMA and ISCA Conferences, as a track chair for an IRMA and ISCA Conference, and as a session chair for IRMA, AoM and ISCA Conferences. Dr. Salehnia’s areas of interest are MIS, Database, Operating Systems, and Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems. He is a member of IRMA, ACM and IEEE.

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