TY - GEN
T1 - How Computer Systems Embody Values
AU - Nissenbaum, Helen
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The story of how information technology has radically altered our lives and even ourselves has been told many times, in many versions. The radical effects of the process have extended to institutions, social processes, relationships, power structures, work, play, education, and beyond. Although the changes have been varied, affecting the economy, the shape and functioning of organizations, artistic expression, and even conceptions of identity, some of us have focused on changes with an ethical dimension. I’ve found it useful to organize this work into two categories according to the distinct ways values factor into it. In one category I place work in which values themselves are not the controversy’s central subject. In the other, however, technology’s values form part of the controversy.
AB - The story of how information technology has radically altered our lives and even ourselves has been told many times, in many versions. The radical effects of the process have extended to institutions, social processes, relationships, power structures, work, play, education, and beyond. Although the changes have been varied, affecting the economy, the shape and functioning of organizations, artistic expression, and even conceptions of identity, some of us have focused on changes with an ethical dimension. I’ve found it useful to organize this work into two categories according to the distinct ways values factor into it. In one category I place work in which values themselves are not the controversy’s central subject. In the other, however, technology’s values form part of the controversy.
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U2 - 10.1109/2.910905
DO - 10.1109/2.910905
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008025259
SN - 0018-9162
VL - 34
SP - 119
EP - 120
JO - Computer
JF - Computer
ER -