The Epistemology and Ethics of Internet Information

E. H. Spence ()
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E. H. Spence: University of Twente

A chapter in Information Systems: People, Organizations, Institutions, and Technologies, 2009, pp 305-312 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Abstract Beginning with the initial premise that as the Internet has a global character, the paper will argue that the normative evaluation of digital information on the Internet necessitates an evaluative model that is itself universal and global in character [1]. The paper will show that information has a dual normative structure that commits all disseminators of information to both epistemological and ethical norms. Based on the dual normative characterization of information the paper will seek to demonstrate: (1) that information and internet information (interformation) specifically, has an inherent normative structure that commits its producers, disseminators, communicators and users, everyone in fact that deals with information, to certain mandatory epistemological and ethical commitments; and (2) that the negligent or purposeful abuse of information in violation of the epistemological and ethical commitments to which it gives rise is also a violation of universal rights to freedom and wellbeing to which all agents are entitled by virtue of being agents, and in particular informational agents.

Keywords: Normative Structure; Engineer Ethic; Digital Information; Ethical Norm; Internet Information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2148-2_35

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