Chapter: Intercultural Information Ethics

Quote:

Cyberspace vanishes into the diversity of complex real/virtual space-time connections of all kinds that are not any more separable from everyday life and its materiality. The boundaries of language against which we are driven appear now as the boundaries of digital networks that not only pervade but also accelerate all relationships between humans as well as between all kinds of natural phenomena and artificial things. For a more detailed analysis of the relation between moods and understanding with explicit relation to the information society see Capurro (2005a) and Wurman (2001). There are no neutral natural and/or artificial things within the realm of human cognitive emotional existence. Every appropriation of, say, the “same” ICT creates cultural and moral differences.

What I expect to learn:

To know more about intellectual property

Review:                    

This chapter really did summarize everything because it explained the connection of all the previous issues mentioned in the book and still, at the same time, opened new ideas to us in terms of morality and communities. Although this chapter mentioned the most number of people and defined them each briefly as their contributions got bigger and more relevant. It is similar to the song I am listening to right now which explains so much with little time, three minutes ot be exact. IT tackles the history of information technology, how it got started, how it went on for years and how will it continue on through the years to come because  we all experience the benefit the great information technology presents to us now, particularly in this generation. Because like now, it would be hard to type in a typewriter just to finish your thesis paper. Can you imagine how many hours it will take you to finish a citation and how huge your callus in your fingers will be afterwards? Oh man, I can’t even explain how the world will be without technology helping us around. Heck, I don’t even think the 50% of the population of the world will survive without technology because we all become dependent to its potentials which is why trying to detach ourselves from it will be like withdrawing from an addiction. You will realize how hard things really are once technology is gone so treasure its presence and realize

What I learned:

·         The foundation debate

·         On the source of morality

·         On the foundation of IIE

·         Charles Ess

·         Toru Nishigaki

·         Terell Ward Bynum

·         Bernd Frohmann

·         Lorenzo Magnani

·         Thomas Herdin, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, and Ursula Maier-Rabler

·         Barbara Peterson

·         Rafael Capurro

·         Privacy in China nad in Thailand

·         Issues: intellectual property

·         Online communities

Integrative Questions:            

1.    Who is Toru Nishigaki?

2.    Who is Bernd Frohmann?

3.    Who is Lorenzo Magnani?

4.    Who is Rafael Capurro?

5.    Who is Charles Ess?