Ethics, artifacts and technology slideshow

Describing how values can be embedded in artefacts and technology

1. Ethics, Artifacts and Technology 1 Germain Abdul – Rahman PhD Student [email protected] Department of Governance & Innovation

2.   Automobiles and Vanity mirrors

4. Symbolic Taboo Activities vs Extreme Violence Taboo Activities (racism, hate speech etc) Extreme Violence (Murder, torture etc) Offline (In real life) Online

5. 9 Ethics, Artifacts and Technology

6. 10 “Ought implies can” ‘’Can doesn’t imply ought’’ Ethics, Artifacts and Technology

7. 11 Ethics, Artifacts and Technology What is the common thread? Automobiles: Raises an ethical question about gender assumptions placed onto society Violence vs Taboo activities: raises an ethical question about norms/behaviour in society and gaming community Robert Moses: raises an ethical question about how political values are embedded in our society. Technology expands our option, which expands our responsibilities (ought).

8. Lessons to take home Technology is not neutral because it has values embedded into it Technology makes the invisible = visible.