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TITLE: Intercultural Information Ethics (Chapter 27)
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QUOTATION: The global distribution of material resources should bother any conscientious person.
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:
-          I want to know what it is about foundational debate.
-          I want to understand the impact of ICT on local cultures from an IEE perspective.
-          I want to learn more about intellectual property.
REACTION:
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TITLE: The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics (Chapter 25)
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QUOTATION: Gender issues is about men and women issues for most, and to this issues most of the times women are always compared to men in terms of abilities, knowledge and techniques/ ways as to how they deal with things, or even with life.
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS: [...]

TITLE: Censorship and Access to Expression (Chapter 24)
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QUOTATION: To censor is to restrict or limit access to an expression, portion of an expression, or category of expression, which has been made public by its author, based on the belief that it will be a bad thing if people access the content of that [...]

TITLE: Intellectual Property: Legal and Moral Challenges of Online File Sharing (Chapter 23)
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QUOTATION: File sharing can be implemented in a variety of storage and distribution models. Current common models are the centralized server-based approach and the distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:
-          I want to know more about Intellectual property.
-          I want to [...]

TITLE: Email Spam (Chapter 21)
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QUOTATION: E-mail spam has steadily, even exponentially grown since the early 1990s to several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused, and annoyed e-mail users.
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:
-          I want to know what email spam is.
-          I want to understand how searching for a characterization of “spam” was done.
-          [...]

TITLE: The Matter of Plagiarism: What, Why, and If (Chapter 22)
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QUOTATION: The right of placing its will in any and every thing, which thing is thereby mine
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:
-          I want to know the matter of Plagiarism.
-          I want to understand the lack of authorization-economic Foundation means.
-          I want to estimate the lack [...]

TITLE: Information Overload (Chapter 20)
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QUOTATION: People nowadays are logging in to the net not only to surf or browse but to donate or share a piece of information. According to Sohora Jha, journalists are using the web to conduct their research, getting information regarding interviewing sources and press releases, updating news online, and [...]

TITLE: Regulation and Governance of the Internet (Chapter 19)
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QUOTATION: Degrading Internet performance will not obviously harm many people very much, depending of course on the degradation. Most of us could wait a little longer when searching or downloading without much of a diminution of our living standards
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:

I want to know the [...]

TITLE: A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment-A SoDIS Inspection (Chapter 18)
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QUOTATION: In the risk sciences, it is common to distinguish between “objective risk” and “subjective risk”.
LEARNING EXPECTATIONS:
-          To know the Generic Standards for Risk Analysis Models.
-          To know A Practical Mechanism for Ethical Risk Assessment.
-          To know what is Sodis Inspection [...]