Ethics and Technology

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

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.

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

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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.  

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".

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