Developers, Designers and Distributors

Bryan Glastonbury and Walter Lamendola
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Bryan Glastonbury: University of Southampton
Walter Lamendola: Colorado Trust

Chapter 7 in The Integrity of Intelligence, 1992, pp 98-111 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Summary This chapter focuses specifically upon those organizations and individuals who control IT because they know about it, design and produce it. Attention is paid both to the values implicit in the connections of IT companies to the rest of society (that is to the handling of manufacture, distribution, price setting and marketing), and to the more concealed values which are embedded in the types of IT systems and software which are developed. The argument is made that IT, far from being ethically neutral, is substantially value-laden; and while little can be done to alter this at source, because it is integral to the process of IT creativity, the existence and direction of the embedded values should be fully recognized and tackled within the wider society.

Keywords: Smart Card; Human Communication; Work Space; Floppy Disk; Human Goal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22734-1_7

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