An Abstract on “A Brief History of Information Ethics” an article by Thomas Froehlich School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University

An Abstract on “A Brief History of Information Ethics”  an article by Thomas Froehlich School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University

This article analyzes the evolution of Information ethics as a separate subject matter over the period of time identifying the key player or the scholar of the emerging discipline and highlighting their vital contribution in the subject over the several decades.

At the very beginning, this subject matter was included in other larger or popular subject or discipline without having its own identity. But as time goes on, it emerged as a distinguish subject for all due to the technological advancement and due to its own pervasive importance everywhere. No schools, colleges or universities had offered this subject as their separate faculty or subject or the regular course to the student few years ago. But, as the years have progressed, the term Information ethics is also adopted by faculty in schools of computer science. Depending on the academic institution in the United States, many departments of Computer Science focused on theoretical dimensions of computer science (for example, they would be concerned with the completeness or consistency of a programming language) while others have included the applied dimensions. One of the first schools to offer a regular course on ethical concerns of information professionals was the University of Pittsburgh.