Table of Case Studies

Prologue

  • Tech Support
  • Ethical theories

Part I Opportunities

1 Digital inclusion

  • Wikipedia
  • Net neutrality
  • Digital Green
  • Navigation aids for the blind and visually impaired
  • Ethics: Gender portrayal in video games
  • Assisting older adults in staying connected

2 Digital media and intellectual property

  • The four major kinds of intellectual property
  • Ethics: Music downloading and sharing
  • YouTube
  • Endless Love of Bush and Blair
  • Textbook prices
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
  • Apple versus Mirror Worlds
  • Linux
  • Creative Commons license

3 Computers in education and learning

  • SimCity
  • PowerPoint and its critics
  • eClass
  • User modelling
  • Voices of Youth
  • The rapid growth of MOOCs
  • Ethics: Mobile phones in schools and classrooms

4 Computers in medicine and health care

  • PatientsLikeMe
  • Problem-oriented medical record (POMR)
  • Adverse drug reactions and interactions
  • Ebola epidemic
  • Training medical students with patient simulators
  • The Incredible Bionic Man
  • Diagnosing diabetic retinopathy
  • Ethics: Designer babies
  • The brain training industry
  • Non-anthropomorphic robot companions

5 Free speech, politics, and government

  • 1984
  • Speech on the internet
  • Internet censorship across the world
  • Ethics: Content moderation
  • Fake news in the 2016 US election campaign
  • Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV)
  • Yes We Can!
  • Government as tweetocracy

6 Law and order, war and peace

  • The Terminator
  • Police body-cams
  • The Arab Spring in Egypt
  • Surveillance, security, and privacy in Canada
  • Keeping the internet open
  • Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election
  • GhostNet
  • Drones
  • The Handle robot
  • Ethics: Autonomous weapons

7 Security

Part II Risks

  • Data breaches
  • Ethics: Aaron Swartz
  • WannyCry
  • Phishing
  • Mobile phone security
  • The Butterfly Ballot
  • Cyber-crime in China

8 Safety

  • Computer rage
  • Amanda Todd
  • Pokémon Go
  • How many lines of code?
  • The Y2K problem
  • Therac-25
  • Three Mile Island
  • The Google Smart Car project
  • Ethics: Societal response to the opportunity of autonomous vehicles
  • Climate change models

9 Privacy

  • Privacy from a psychological point of view
  • National ID numbers
  • Big data and the Digital Universe
  • HIPAA
  • Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal
  • Video surveillance
  • Lifelogging
  • Ethics: Edward Snowden
  • The General Data Protection Regulation
  • Privacy by Design

Part III Choices

10 Automation, work, and jobs

  • Modern Times
  • Ethics: Automatic filtering of résumés
  • Sociometric badges
  • The disrupters
  • Ripeness sniffers and melon-picking robots
  • Are robots responsible for the decline of manufacturing jobs?
  • Retail automation
  • Automated medical diagnosis
  • What do the experts predict about job losses due to automation?

11 Artificial intelligence, explanations, trust, responsibility, and justice

  • R.U.R.
  • Game-playing programs
  • Superintelligence
  • Multiple intelligences
  • The uncanny valley
  • Explainable artificial intelligence
  • Ethics: Non-explainable artificial intelligence
  • Trusting AI
  • Data analytics for child welfare
  • AI and criminal justice
  • New EU regulation on algorithmic decision-making and a right to have decisions explained

12 Lifestyle

  • Social media
  • Antisocial media
  • Ethics: The internet addiction battlefield
  • Alexa
  • Augmented reality (AR)
  • Realbotix
  • Bitcoin
  • Amazon