Ethics of Information Management

Richard O. Mason is Carr P. Collins Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. He served as the Director of The Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at SMU from 1998 to 2005. Mason's main fields of interest are information systems, ethics and management. He is the author of numerous academic articles and books. In 2001, the Association of Information Systems awarded him the Leo Award AIS Fellow for lifelong contribution to the information systems field. In 1992, he was made a Foreign Fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in the Informatics and Cybernetics Section.

PART ONE: WHY INFORMATION AND ETHICS? Information and Responsibility New Ethical Challenges Information Its Special Nature Information and Decision Making Information Systems annd Power PART TWO: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ETHICS Ethical Thinking Ethical Theories and Principles PART THREE: APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION ETHICS IN SOCIETY Information Professionalism Information Ethics in Organizations Societal Issues and Information Ethics Beacon toward the Future Major Ethical Tensions in an Information Society