John Weckert

John Weckert is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), and Professor of Information Technology in the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University. He is manager of the CAPPE Research Programme IT and Nanotechnology: Ethics of Emergent Technology. His PhD is in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and he has a Diploma in Computer Science from LaTrobe University.He has taught and published in the area of Information Technology for many years, and in recent times has published widely in the field of Computer Ethics.

Publications

Giving and Taking Offence in a Global Context
Giving and Taking Offence in a Global Context
John Weckert. © 2009. 12 pages.
This chapter examines the concept of offence, both its giving and taking, and argues that such an examination can shed some light on global ethical issues. It examines the nature...
Giving and Taking Offence in a Global Context
Giving and Taking Offence in a Global Context
John Weckert. © 2009. 12 pages.
This article examines the concept of offence, both its giving and taking, and argues that such an examination can shed some light on global ethical issues. It examines the nature...
Digital Divides: Their Social and Ethical Implications
Digital Divides: Their Social and Ethical Implications
Emma Rooksby, John Weckert. © 2008. 29 pages.
This chapter considers the social and ethical significance of digital divides, where a digital divide is taken to be an intra- or international inequality in levels of access to...
Information Technology and Social Justice
Information Technology and Social Justice
Emma Rooksby, John Weckert. © 2007. 292 pages.
The term digital divide is still used regularly to characterize the injustice associated with inequalities in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). As the...
Foreword
Foreword
John Weckert. © 2007.
This Foreword is included in the book Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives.
Giving and Taking Offence in a Global Context
Giving and Taking Offence in a Global Context
John Weckert. © 2007. 11 pages.
This article examines the concept of offence, both its giving and taking, and argues that such an examination can shed some light on global ethical issues. It examines the nature...
Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Controversies and Solutions
Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace: Controversies and Solutions
John Weckert. © 2005. 305 pages.
The use of new technologies, coupled with the fact that there is an increasing amount of work being done on-line, whether on the Internet, intranets, LANs or other networks, has...
Political Online Communities in Saudi Arabia
Political Online Communities in Saudi Arabia
Yeslam Al-Saggaf, John Weckert. © 2005. 7 pages.
The Internet was introduced in Saudi Arabia in late January 1999 after a long period of discussions and consultations within the Saudi authorities. Finally, it was agreed that a...
Digital Divides: Their Social and Ethical Implications
Digital Divides: Their Social and Ethical Implications
Emma Rooksby, John Weckert. © 2004. 19 pages.
This chapter considers the social and ethical significance of digital divides, where a digital divide is taken to be an intra- or international inequality in levels of access to...