Informationsethik - Eine Einführung

Author(s): Capurro, Rafael
Document type: Web-Tour, Online material
Year: 1999
Pages: 70
Source: Individual teacher/presenter: Rafael Capurro
URL: http://www.capurro.de/ethikskript/inhalt.htm
Language(s): German

Classification

National background: Germany
Category: EU Training Material for Research Ethics
Subject areas: Information (data protection, privacy etc.)
Focus: Sub-focus: embedded in information technology
Content: Ethical theories; Important codes; Legal background; Normative reflections
Issues touched: Protection of privacy, data protection, biological material Social impact of research, economic benefits, risks for third parties Social background of research, conflicts of interest, researcher vs. doctor, Commercialisation
Audience: General/not specified
Classification remarks: The compilation focuses on the general ethical aspects of information technology, not dealing with research in this field separately. Correspondingly, the legal background and important codes refer to copyright regulations or the Declaration of Human Rights respectively. However, these considerations clearly remain relevant to researchers developing new technologies in this field.

Estimation

Theoretical quality remarks: The first half of the material is devoted to a thorough historical and systematic introduction into general ethics. The second half focuses on information ethics. Here, copyright legislation and various declarations on information technology are introduced or provided as links. Ethical considerations are based on the Declaration of Human Rights, but also in Plato, McLuhan, Baudrillard, Anders and Flusser.
Didactical quality: Didactically prepared material
Didactical quality remarks: Plain text with links/hyperlinks, exercises at the end of chapters.
Overall estimation: recommendable
Estimation remarks: The work deals with general information ethics, not specifying aspects of research. In the field of information technology important ethical aspects of research coincide with ethical issues relevant in present or very foreseeable applications.