Technoethics and the Evolving Knowledge Society: Ethical Issues in Technological Design, Research, Development, and Innovation: Ethical Issues in Technological Design, Research, Development, and Innovation

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Luppicini, Rocci
IGI Global, Jan 31, 2010 - Philosophy - 323 pages

Recently, there has been a major push to rediscover the ethical dimension of technology across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Technoethics and the Evolving Knowledge Society: Ethical Issues in Technological Design, Research, Development, and Innovation examines human processes and practices connected to technology embedded within social, political, and moral spheres of life. This innovative publication engages readers in critical debates connected to the ethical dimensions of a technological society through insightful examinations, theories, and research findings not covered by any other text to date.

 

Contents

The Knowledge Society
1
Technoethics
24
TechnologicalConsciousness andMoral Agency
47
Technology Assessmentand Technoethics Inquiry
67
The Nature andAreas of TechnoethicalInquiry
86
Information andCommunicationTechnoethics
108
Biomedical Technoethics
128
Engineering andEnvironmentalTechnoethics
146
The Case of GlobalTechnology inSouth Africa
211
Global Technoethicsand Cultural Tensionsin Canada
225
The Case of ETechnologyABuse at Work
237
The Future ofTechnoethics
249
Interviews with Experts in the Fieldof Technoethics
254
Glossary
290
about the authors
297
Index
300

Educational andProfessionalTechnoethics
163
Global Technoethicsand Society
181

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Rocci Luppicini is the Immediate Past Director (Arts), Tri-Faculty Graduate E-Business Technologies (EBT) Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Technoethics(2010-2020) and a leading expert in Technology Studies (TS) and Technoethics. Main research areas include: Ethical dilemmas with new technology (media ethics, cybercrime, hacking, cyber espionage, cyberbullying), Digital Transformation (digital aesthetics, online communities, technofeminism, social media, e-trust, social responsibility), Identity and Technology (human-computer interaction, e-identity management, human enhancement, post-human society, social robotics, cyberculture), Educational Technology (program planning and development, distance education, blended education, instructional design, technology integration) and Organizational Studies (systems theory, virtual organizations, organizational communications, organizational change, socio-technical change). [Editor]

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