The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Book Review Chapter 27:

Intercultural Information Ethics: RAFAEL CAPURRO

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Quote:  “IIE is an emerging discipline. The present debate shows a variety of foundational perspectives as well as a preference for the narrow view that focuses IIE on ICT.”

    Basically, as one culture has their own information ethics, it really narrows information ethics overall. That is why there is this Intercultural Information Ethics, which is an emerging discipline and widens ethics.

Learning Expectation:

    In this world, it is been a fact that each community or each country has their own culture and way of doing things. It is very narrow and broad in a way that we might not seem to understand why a culture of a certain community is like that. Some communities or people may agree or disagree. The chapter will be talking about the intercultural information ethics and I want to know if there is a general culture for all or do information ethics in other countries differ from other countries.

Review:

    This chapter is basically about the intercultural information ethics. As I have discussed in my learning expectation. Different communities or people have different cultures. Each community lives their lives according to their beliefs or what their originators or leaders taught them to believe. Although some communities or people might not agree or find it hard to believe how other communities’ cultures are. We all have our differences and we have different reasoning’s. Some may agree and some may not. That is why Intercultural Information Ethics has been taken under close analysis. As far as I know, I think that there is a general type of ethics, which applies to everyone. But having read this chapter, it gives me the notion that different cultures also have their own information ethics. Moreover, it is discussed in this chapter how it is all connected. Because it is certain that intercultural information ethics cannot have a total opposite ethic as compared to the other ethics. It must be balanced and not that far from each other because it may be valid to your culture but it would void some ethics in other cultures. So, it has to stay balanced.

What I’ve learned:

    In this final chapter of the Information & Computer Ethics Handbook, All the while I have thought that there is only one general ethics that applies to all. I have learned that there are intercultural information ethics that are used by different cultures around the world. The Intercultural Information Ethics is actually an emerging discipline and the present debate shows a variety of foundational perspectives as well as preference for the narrow view that focuses IIE on ICT.

Questions:

1.    How different are ethics in other cultures?

2.    Can’t we have just one ethics in general?

3.    Will it help develop the world with multiple ethics?

4.    How does IIE impact the world?

5.    What if IEE didn’t exist?

Citation: (Kenneth Einar E. Himma & Herman T. Tavani, 2008)