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Ethical and Social Issues in Cyberspace

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When William Gibson first coined the word cyberspace in his novel Neuromancer, he was describing the vision of a three-dimensional space of pure information consisting of networks of computers linking people, machines, and other objects as information sources and sinks. This space offered a high degree of movement, enabling users to navigate cyberspace, or to surf, as it is now commonly referred to. A cyberspace user is represented in the space as a packet of pure information moving from a source node to a destination node as needed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 37403, Chattanooga, TN, USA

    Joseph Migga Kizza

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Kizza, J.M. (1998). Ethical and Social Issues in Cyberspace. In: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2950-4_9

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