Ethics and Technology

Ethics and Technology

Technological and ethical challenges in a modern workforce.

Innovations in communication and technology drive productivity, yet result in emerging ethical issues that are not immediately evident to managers. Technological innovations such the internet and mobile phones have become an essential part of the workplace, changed the tasks of the workforce, and created unanticipated ethical challenges.

The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Collegiate Program at UCCS COB has programmed events and sponsored research that look into the ethical issues brought about by advancements in technology and communications.

Ethics Fellows in this Focus Area
Gedare Bloom, Ph.D.
Gedare Bloom, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Todd L. Bredbenner
Todd L. Bredbenner
Assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Rory Lewis, Ph.D, JD
Rory Lewis, Ph.D, JD
Program Officer of UCCS’s College of Engineering’s Computer Science Master's Department
Jian James Ma, Ph.D.
Jian James Ma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Department of Business Analysis, College of Business
Sang-Yoon Chang
Sang-Yoon Chang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
Scott Kupferman, Ph.D.
Scott Kupferman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Co-Coordinator of Special Education Program
Jugal Kalita
Jugal Kalita, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Carla Myers, MLIS
Carla Myers, MLIS
Assistant Professor Faculty Director of Access Services and Scholarly Communications, The Kraemer Family Library
Albert Batten, Ph.D.
Albert Batten, Ph.D.
Adjunct Instructor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
T. Martin Key
T. Martin Key, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Marketing, College of Business
Andrew D. Ketsdever, Ph.D.
Andrew D. Ketsdever, Ph.D.
Engineering Chair/Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Peggy Beranek, Ph.D.
Peggy Beranek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems, College of Business
Ethics and Technology Videos

Related Resources

Articles
Blackberry's Encryption System

Should BlackBerry have provided countries access to its encryption system? View Full Article: Blackberry's Encryption System 

Facebook: A Change for the Good or Hanging Users Out to Dry?

Is Facebook violating user privacy with its new policy changes as a result of going public? View Full Article: Facebook: A Change for the Good or Hanging Users Out to Dry? 

The Virtues of Leonhard Euler: Ethics, Mathematics and Thriving in a Digital Era

The Virtues of Leonhard Euler:
Ethics, Mathematics and Thriving in a Digital Era

By SCEC Champion Bruce N. Lundberg

This essay explores ethical foundations for meeting the digital challenge via a case study of the work, life, and virtues of the greatest mathematician and natural scientist of the eighteenth century, Leonhard Euler. By biography and history one can learn of the gifts of human strength, practices, good will, dependence on others, and friendships which made possible Euler’s own astonishing corpus of work and that of many other scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technologists. Digital technology results from a combination of science (demonstrable knowledge and method), technology, engineering, and art (forms and artifacts of making and expressing), and mathematics (abstract numerical, algebraic, geometrical, formal, and digital concepts, rules, representations, and logics). Joint reflection on the biographical, historical, and natural sources of mathematics and the digital is essential for any humanization or ascesis in response to the perils and promises of digital technology for human thriving. As ethics enable and embody an ethos, so technologies are means and manifestations of a telos. Thus, thought and action for thriving through the digital needs to contemplate and conciliate the ends of humans and of the digital.

View Full Article Here 

Events
April 2018 Ethics Roundtable- Yanyan Zhuang

The April 2018 Ethics Roundtable featured Ethics Fellow Yanyan Zhuang, Ph.D., and her presentation "Creepy and Invisible: Learning Privacy and Censorship in Classrooms".

View the YouTube Presentation  

Beyond the Social Dilemma

Beyond the Social Dilemma from CEAVCO on Vimeo.

 

For continuing the conversation, check out the books Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble and Terms of Disservice by Dipayan Ghosh and All Tech Is Human’s recent report, Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations and Ideas for a Better Tech Future.  

 

If you would like to continue the discussion around creating a more ethical social media future, you can join All Tech Is Human’s Slack group. And if you are looking to build your career in the nascent responsible tech space, All Tech Is Human has a Responsible Tech Guide and recently launched a Responsible Tech Mentorship Program.  

December 2019 Ethics Roundtable- Katie Sullivan

The December 2019 Ethics Roundtable featured Ethics Fellow Katie Sullivan, Ph.D., and her presentation "The words you Tweet become the house you live in: Exploring social media ethics as a means of training wholehearted communicators".

View the YouTube Presentation or the Presentation PowerPoint

Resources
Ethics and Compliance Program

UCCS has adopted a set of values to which it is committed, including specifically a commitment to the value of integrity and an expectation that each member of the campus community will engage in ethical behavior.

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