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Is the Global Information Infrastructure a Democratic Technology

Page history last edited by Riela Isabel Antonio 15 years, 1 month ago

 

Chapter: Is the Global Information Infrastructure a Democratic Technology?

Quote:

The above remarks about the moral non-neutrality of many technologies and techniques point to a second limitation of mainstream computer ethics. Mainstream computer ethics focuses on the morality of practice, particularly on the use of computer technology. What is often marginalized in the discussion, or left out entirely, is the moral role of the technology that is being used. That is, the design features of computer systems and software are often taken as a given in computer ethics. The technology is taken as a neutral tool with which both moral and immoral actions can be performed, and the focus is on these actions. In philosophical and empirical students of technology. They have plans of shaping the environment.

What I expect to learn:

To recognize the global information infrastructure

Review:

The values stated are complicated to explain but one way or the other, this chapter just means that there are given values that we have the option to follow when it comes to global information structure.

It may be the expressive meaning of embedded values such as for us to truly identify those values one by one, we have to first identify the social context of the technology that we might be ordered to develop. It is similar to what we experienced in our other class when we were given a case study and asked to decide whether to create a program that is bad for the people but good for the company or not develop it at all which will eventually ruin your reputation as a programmer. It might be because of the natural growth of our geographic scale which is why we need to consider the community first but the real issue we first have to answer is whether or not this is right which is honestly, the hardest question to answer.

What I learned:

·         Technology and Values

·         Values Embedded in Technologies

o    The moral metaphysical meaning of embedded values

o    The support meaning of embedded values

o    The material meaning of embedded values

·         Values Embedded in the Global Information Infrastructure

o    The moral/metaphysicall meaning of embedded values

o    The support meaning of embedded

o    The material menaing of embedded values

·         Democracy as the Starting Place: Power and Insularity

o    Power to the Many

o    Joint Deliberation

Integrative Questions:

1.    Explain the concept power to many.

2.    Elaborate the idea of joint deliberation.

3.    Enumerate the different values in computer ethics.

4.    What are the values embedded in the global information infrastructure?

5.    What is the support meaning of the embedded values?

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