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The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics

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

 

Chapter: The Gender Agenda in Computer Ethics

Quote:

To date, the focus of feminist ethics has tended to be women’s caring roles, especially mothering.5 There are some theoretical problems with this focus, particularly in terms of the emphasis on “ethics of care” that can be seen as problematic as it reinforces women’s traditional self-sacrificing role while, at the same time, emphasizing a level of control over those who are cared for. There have been few attempts to apply feminist ethics to science and technology

What I expect to learn:

To identify the gender agenda in computer ethics

Review:                    

Okay, I get it. Back then, women have no rights aside being mothers and I also get it that up to now, it is still a big deal to other parts of the world but hey, wake up guys because if you open your eyes wide enough, you will see how many women showed power and passion to their true beings and demonstrated how it is to truly be brave and to truly treasure a right. I know I seem upset but who would not be upset after reading a history book explaining why women have no rights back then and how they treat women. Now is not the right time to morn about it because it is done. We are finally saved from all those cultural chains that pulled women away from their capabilities and justice as a human being.

Ethics of care, I have to admit, obviously means the heart of women and in a good way. Here is an excerpt from the chapter explaining the relevance of digital divide: What is the relevance, if any, of the digital divide discourse (e.g., Internet access to all) with the fact that data is not information, information is not marketable knowledge, and marketable knowledge is not wisdom? The gaps between these various notions must be identified to call better attention to how our efforts to bridge the various gaps should succeed. For example, we must provide education that enables people to convert data to information, and information to marketable knowledge. To ensure full human flourishing, we want to ensure that bridging the digital divide leads not only to ending life-threatening poverty, but also to full flourishing of human beings, which requires wisdom, aesthetic experience, philosophical self-reflection, and so on.

What I learned:

·         Feminist ethics

·         GENDER AND COMPUTER ETHICS—A MALE–FEMALE BINARY

·         Gender and computer ethics studies

·         Student population

·         Quantitative Versus Qualitative Research Methodologies

·         Ethical behavior

·         The Undertheorizing of Gender and Ethics

·         Women in computing

·         Cyberstalking

·         Hacking

·         Hacker Communities

Integrative Questions:            

1.    What do you mean by feminist ethics?

2.    Explain the male-female binary in this chapter.

3.    Define cyberstalking.

4.    Define what a hacker community is.

5.    Explain the concept of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Research Methodologies.

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