Open Access3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Theorizing the Internet; Paper 4: A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies and Their Relevance to Informa-tion Ethics
Author(s) -
PakHang Wong
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
triplec
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.564
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 1726-670X
DOI - 10.31269/triplec.v8i2.215
Subject(s) - ethics of technology , relevance (law) , information ethics , engineering ethics , icts , sociology , information technology , the internet , session (web analytics) , reflection (computer programming) , applied ethics , field (mathematics) , information and communications technology , epistemology , knowledge management , meta ethics , political science , computer science , engineering , law , world wide web , programming language , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
In light of converging technologies, there is a clear sense that ethicists of various technological domains are coming together. Or, that they should come together. Yet, despite increasing cooperation and boundary-crossing in various fields of the ethics of technology, these efforts remain mostly at topical level. Relatively little attention has been given to issues on methodologies. The current paper aims to contribute to the current research by raising the methodological issues. In this paper, my objective is to argue that ethics of Information Technology (or Information Ethics (IE)) can benefit from the insights in other fields of the ethics of technology. Drawing the insights from other fields of the ethics of technology, I shall propose a systematic account of an Empirical Information Ethics (EIE)