Toward a normative ethics for technology development

Abstract

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to criticise ad hoc approaches to ethics in research and development in technology as descriptive and non-ethical, and based upon a narrow conception of rationality. Design/methodology/approach -The approach deploys a theory of normativity that can incorporate values and a broad conception of rationality, in order to account for the relevance of issues for the addressees of normative injunctions. Findings -A normative approach is possible and required in order to implement ethics in research and development in technology. Originality/value -The approach draws together themes from current alternative approaches that each fail to deploy the full resources of the normative approach, and so fail to fully account for ethics. This approach identifies and moves beyond present limited approaches.

Empowering application strategy in the technology adoption

“…It is important to note that in this era, where virtual acts are essentially more common than direct ones, relies on knowledge which is frequently adapted to the changing environment when it is produced. The attainment of mixing and matching rates of knowledge as a development for a dynamic within an everlasting world can be seen as a byproduct of the control that humans have attained in understanding the knowledge about how we relate to the world embedded within the human genome, generated in association with technology and freely available on the internet, and so it raises questions about our assumptions of control (Prior et al, 2002;Rainey and Goujon, 2011). Driving evolutionary systems which enable to make knowledge increasingly become more mobilised to manage, software agents with replacing the search function of unknowingly matching words will exchange knowledge without human intervention.…”

“…Furthermore, innovations in shaping the human experience increasingly act to engage people with media entertainment and information to connect those interested with each other (Rainey and Goujon, 2011). This would potentially result in humans being increasingly engaged with media platforms, services and content.…”

Characteristics of tasks and technology as a driver of task-technology fit and the use of the hotel reservation information system

“…Several previous studies have found partial relationship between variables as follow: the effect of task characteristics toward the TTF by Huscroft et al (2013); Wu et al (2018); Isaac et al (2017) and Ferreira et al (2017); the effect of technology characteristics toward the TTF by Rainey and Goujon (2011); Razmak and Bélanger (2018); Huscroft et al (2013) and Babu and Heath (2017); the effect of the TTF toward the use by Barhoumi (2016); Glowalla and Sunyaev (2014); Román and Rodríguez (2015) and Norzaidi and Zakaria (2017); and the effect of the use toward the TTF by Barhoumi (2016); Wu et al (2018) and Raj and Troutt (2009). …”

“…the effect of technology characteristics toward the TTF by Rainey and Goujon (2011); Razmak and Bélanger (2018); Huscroft et al (2013) and Babu and Heath (2017);…”

Ética y docencia universitaria. Percepciones y nuevos desafíos

“…La importancia del estudio de la ética en las distintas profesiones radica en que, sin una idea de las normas éticas vinculadas al contexto de cada actividad, sería incomprensible que cualquier decisión tomada pueda ser moralmente convincente (Rainey & Goujon, 2011), sobretodo, entre las alternativas que se encuentran en determinadas situaciones problemáticas (Frey, 2010). Por lo tanto, se debe desafiar a los estudiantes a descubrir cómo estas opciones (toma de decisiones) forman la ética y los valores profesionales (Walther, 2016).…”