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March 15, 2005: Computer Graphics and Design Ethics

Part 1: Design Ethics
Part 2: Computer Graphics (page 2)

 

Presentation

Designing_Matter_3_15_05_DGJ.pdf

Johnson Lecture, 3/15/2005

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Readings

JohnsonGlobalInfoDemocraticTechnology.pdf

Johnson, D. G. "Is the Global Information Infrastructure a Democratic Technology?" Computers & Society 27 3 (1997): 20-26.

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WinnerDoArtifactsHavePolitics.pdf

Winner, L. “Do artifacts have politics?” in The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology; Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1986; pp. 19-39.

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DyerMakingWhitePeopleWhite.pdf

Dyer, R. “Making ‘White’ People White” White: Essays on Race and Culture; London: Routledge, 1997; Chapter 10, 134-7.

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Questions

  • To what extent do scientific and technological developments occur independent of social forces?
  • Is technology (or matter) value-neutral?
  • Is the Internet a democratic technology?
  • Are computers or computer systems morally neutral?
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Speakers

Prof. David Luebke received a B.A. in Chemistry from Colorado College in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina in 1998. He joined the University of Virginia faculty ...


Prof. Deborah G. Johnson is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Communication, School of Engineering and Applied Science (UVA) ...