Open AccessOn Professional Informatical Action
Author(s) -
Peter Bittner
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie246
Subject(s) - professionalization , action (physics) , criticism , field (mathematics) , engineering ethics , epistemology , informatics , sociology , political science , social science , law , engineering , philosophy , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Our patterns of thinking and acting (as “computer professionals”) must be out in the open, so as to exposeinformatical action to criticism by the society as a whole. We are responsible for the provision of knowledgeabout these patterns. This article criticizes the (defining) use of the trait approach and the functionalapproach to “profession” in the debate on professionalization in the field of computer science (informatics).An attempt is made to show how informatical action might be better understood by examining the concept ofprofession in a multidimensional approach, sensitive towards the various perspectives. For this purpose itbecomes necessary to examine first of all the various perspectives on the concept “profession” and secondlythe debates on professionalization in other disciplines.