The Role of Stories in Computer Ethics John M. Artz DepartmentofManagementScience GeorgeWAshingtonUniversity,Washington,DC jartz@gwuvm,gwu.edu thin the computing profession, interest in comuter ethics has been growing steadily for over en years. Many academic programs now have courses dedicated to social and ethical issues in information systems or computer science. Yet if you read a book or attend a conference on computer ethics, you are likely to come away believing that the central problems in computer ethics have something to do with protecting individual privacy and providing universal access to the World Wide Web. Dig a little deeper and you might find some additional problems such as protecting workers from the dehumanizing influences of technology, or finding ways to hold software developers responsible for the functioning and reliability of the systems they build. While these, and many other similar issues, are clearly important to the profession, and are being discussed at length, I would argue that they are merely examples of two much larger issues that are not being discussed at all. I see the central problems in computer ethics to be the means of determining ethical standards and the means of enforcing ethical standards. The first, more clearly, is how
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The role of stories in computer ethics
Artz, John M.
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, Volume 28 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 1998
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