Intercultural Information Ethics

Capurro, Rafael

doi:10.1002/9780470281819.ch27

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“…And, although human rights are universal, they are also fairly general, making them adaptable to the circumstances of various societies. Thus, a human rights approach fits well with what have been called "intercultural" and "global" information ethics (Capurro, 2008;Carbo & Smith, 2008;Ess, , 2006. Furthermore, human rights have evolved over time in response to new concerns and threatsfrom the atrocities of World War II, to postcolonial concerns about Indigenous peoples, to the rise of global concern about the human rights of women, children, and the disabled.…”

Section: Human Rights As a Normative Framework For Information Ethicsmentioning

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Human rights as a topic and guide forLISresearch and practice

Mathiesen

2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Section: Human Rights As a Normative Framework For Information Ethicsmentioning

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Human rights as a topic and guide forLISresearch and practice

Mathiesen

2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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“…So, for example, it is not a computer virus that destroys all data on my hard disk that is evil, but the person who programmed the application and distributed it. Capurro (2006Capurro ( , 2005Capurro ( , 2003a offers an alternative version of information ethics that is grounded in the social realm and explores and evaluates the development of moral values and new power structures in the information field, information myths, contradictions and intentionalities in information theories and practices, and the development of ethical conflicts in the information field. The main task of such ethics is for Capurro to pose the question of freedom in a digitally networked world.…”

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Cyberethics and Co-operation in the Information Society

2009

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The task of this paper is to ground the notion of cyberethics of co-operation. The evolution of modern society has resulted in a shift from industrial society towards informational capitalism. This transformation is a multidimensional shift that affects all aspects of society. Hence also the ethical system of society is penetrated by the emergence of the knowledge society and ethical guidelines for the information age are needed. Ethical issues and conflicts in the knowledge society are connected to topics of ecological and social sustainability. For information ethics and cyberethics, the sustainable design of society, social, and socio-technological systems is important. In this context the notions of sustainability and co-operation are discussed. Based on these categories, the approach of cyberethics of co-operation can be theoretically grounded.

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“…The literature on each of these issues is large and straddles the boundaries between ethical theory, meta‐ethics, and applied ethics, paying close attention to the problems that arise when criteria or principles for ethical action conflict. Kay Mathiesen and Don Fallis (2008), for example, discuss the ethical dilemmas facing librarians that arise from challenges to intellectual freedom; Mathiesen (2008) reviews concepts of censorship and justifications for limiting access to information; Adam Moore (2007, 2008a) and Herman Tavani (2008) review concepts of privacy and justifications of information privacy rights; Moore (2008b) and Kenneth Einar Himma (2008) analyze justifications for the legal protection of intellectual property rights; Rafael Capurro (2008) assesses the significance of intercultural information ethics. Hope Olson (2002) uncovers the causes and effects of bias in the construction of bibliographic classification and subject indexing schemes, and Clare Beghtol (2002, 2005) explores strategies for creating and maintaining knowledge organization systems that are ethically acceptable.…”

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Philosophy and information studies

Furner

2010

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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IntroductionSeveral scholarly activities and practices coalesce at the intersection of, on one hand, the interdisciplinary field that is sometimes known as information studies, and on the other, the discipline of philosophy. This chapter aims to distinguish among some of these practices, to identify and review some of the most interesting products of those practices, and to point to ways of assessing the significance of those products-for information studies, for philosophy, and for our general understanding of the world.In the first section following this introduction, an attempt is made to characterize, in a few paragraphs, the subject matter, methods, and goals of philosophy. Suffice it to say, any such attempt runs the risk of gross oversimplification as well as of inappropriate prioritization. That such an attempt be made is nevertheless a necessary adjunct to the short statement of scope that concludes this introduction. In succeeding sections, a distinction is drawn between philosophical questions asked about information studies and philosophical questions asked in information studies (cf. Floridi, 2002c, pp. 136-137) and the goals and subject matter of philosophy of information studies and philosophy of information are respectively described. This distinction is made in the spirit of conceptual clarity, rather than to reflect a division that is rigorously respected in actual scholarly practice: people interested in philosophy (or, indeed, in information studies) are likely to be interested in questions of both of these kinds. A concluding section poses questions about the reciprocal impact of each field.Notwithstanding the publication in recent ARIST volumes of reviews of specific areas of philosophical interest (e.g., M. M. Smith [1997] on information ethics; Cornelius [2002] and Capurro & Hjørland [2003] on conceptions of information; Blair [2003] on information retrieval and the philosophy of language; Day [2005] on poststructuralism and information studies; and Fallis [2006] on social epistemology and information science), the present chapter is the first general review of its kind to appear in these pages. Consequently, its scope is not deliberately limited to a review of the work done in any particular time period; but an emphasis is nevertheless placed on contributions to the literature of the twenty-first century. No attempt has been made to be comprehensive in coverage; the bibliography is rather a selective one that represents the author's personal judgments as to which are some of the more interesting, illuminating, or insightful contributions. The bias is toward CHAPTER 4 161 work that is informed by what is often characterized as the "analytic" tradition in western philosophy-with the caveat that it has become increasingly difficult and (some would say) in any case misguided and unhelpful to distinguish between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy as currently practiced (cf. Moran, 2008b, pp. 13-16). Otherwise, some additional care has been taken to avoid covering too much of the s...

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Intercultural Information Ethics

Cited by 60 publications

References 47 publications

Human rights as a topic and guide forLISresearch and practice

Human rights as a topic and guide forLISresearch and practice

Cyberethics and Co-operation in the Information Society

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