Organized into five main parts with fourteen sections and forty-eight subsections, the enclosed bibliography includes more than 2,000 entries. In addition to books and journal articles, works cited include reports, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, professional papers presented at seminars and workshops, newspaper articles, and video programs.

Part I consists of a single section which lists books and articles of general interest. Many works cited in this section have become classic texts in technology, ethics, and society. Part II, which is made up of Sections 2 and 3, is intended primarily for those interested in teaching courses in computing, ethics, and social responsibility. Section 2 lists textbooks and identifies resources dedicated to issues in teaching ethical and social issues in computing. A selected list of sources on ethical theory, which some instructors may find useful as a framework for discussing ethical issues in computing, is included in Section 3.

Ethical issues in computing cut across two distinct areas of ethical investigation--practical or applied ethics and professional or occupational ethics. This division is reflected in the grouping of sources in Parts III and IV of the bibliography. Part III, made up of Sections 4 and 5, includes entries that focus on professional ethics and issues of social responsibility for computer professionals. Some entries in Section 4 identify professional computer organizations and professional codes of conduct, while others interpret and assess professional codes of ethics. Sources concerned with issues of moral responsibility and legal liability for computer professionals are cited in Section 5.

Sections 6 through 12, which make up Part IV of the bibliography, cite works that focus on ethical and social issues related to seven topical areas: artificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems, computers and work, computers and privacy, computers and social justice, computer crime, software ownership and intellectual property rights, and civil liberties in cyberspace. In examining the contents of Sections 6 through 12, the reader may notice a series of transitions from the topic in the closing subsection of one major section to the main theme of the section that immediately follows. For example, the final topic of Section 6 examines issues in AI, robotics and employment, and leads into Section 7, "Computers and Work." The closing topic of Section 7 deals with employee monitoring and flows into "Computers and Privacy," the theme of Section 8. A similar series of transitions can be found in the sources that make up Sections 9 through 12.

Part V, comprised of Sections 13 and 14, identifies works concerned with the future of computing and the quality of life. Sources focusing on the impact of computers on the quality of human life--e.g., issues that affect human progress and productivity, human-computer interaction, and human-computer dependency--are cited in Section 13. Works that speculate on the future of computing are cited in Section 14. Also listed in this section are sources that consider issues of professional and social responsibility for designing future computer systems.

An appendix which lists and annotates bibliographies on or related to computers, ethics, and society is also included. In effect, the appendix serves as a meta-bibliography or bibliography of bibliographies. While many sources identified in bibliographic works listed in the appendix overlap with those cited in the present study, each of those bibliographies includes several entries which are not repeated here. Because it would be neither practical nor appropriate to duplicate entries, no attempt was made to do so. Instead, interested readers are referred directly to those bibliographic works for additional sources.

With the exception of sources cited in Appendix A, entries are not annotated. For practical reasons, I decided not to annotate works identified in the various sections that make up Parts I through V. I have, however, introduced each major section of the bibliography with a description and summary of the contents of its subsections.

With very few exceptions, works are not cited in more than one section of the bibliography. However, relevant chapters from certain textbooks cited in Section 2 are, in some cases, included as separate entries in later sections. Also, certain articles included as readings in anthologies listed in Section 2 are cited separately as entries in subsequent sections of the bibliography. For example, a chapter on privacy in a textbook, or a reading on privacy included in an anthology cited in Section 2, may appear as a separate entry in Section 8, "Computers and Privacy."