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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
COMPUTER ETHICS AND SOCIAL STUDIES OF COMPUTING
Philip Brey
Department of Philosophy
University of Twente, Netherlands
October 26, 2004
Tuesday, 3:30pm
Sumwalt College, Room 102
In this talk, Dr. Philip Brey will chart the rise of computer ethics as an
established field of applied ethics and its relation to social science
research in computers and society. Dr. Brey will look at a variety of
social science and interdisciplinary areas that study IT and its relation
to users, user contexts, and society and culture at large, including
sociological, legal, political science, cultural studies, gender and
human-media interaction approaches, and Computer Supported Cooperative
Work. He will then look at various models of doing applied (computer)
ethics, and point to areas in which collaboration has been particularly
fruitful or looks promising. These include ethical studies of civil
liberties and IT (including privacy and informational freedom), the digital
divide, democracy and IT, professional ethics for computer scientists, and
studies of embedded normativity and moral agency in computer technology.
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