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What are ethics?
What are ethics?
- Principles of right and wrong that individuals use to follow the law
- Principles of right and wrong that individuals use to make choices (correct)
- Principles of right and wrong that organizations use to make choices
- Principles of right and wrong that individuals use to judge others
How do information systems raise new ethical questions?
How do information systems raise new ethical questions?
- By creating new kinds of crime (correct)
- By enforcing existing distributions of power
- By decreasing the need for laws and regulations
- By eliminating social and political institutions
What is the model for thinking about ethical, social, and political issues according to the text?
What is the model for thinking about ethical, social, and political issues according to the text?
- Society as a calm pond and IT as a gentle breeze
- Society as a calm pond and IT as a rock creating ripples (correct)
- IT as a calm pond and society as a rock creating ripples
- Society as a turbulent sea and IT as a calming force
What are the five moral dimensions of information mentioned in the text?
What are the five moral dimensions of information mentioned in the text?
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Why can't social and political institutions respond overnight to the ripples created by IT?
Why can't social and political institutions respond overnight to the ripples created by IT?
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