[Air-L] Lesson plans for teaching for a peaceful, diverse world that is safe for everyone

[Charles Ess]

PS
Let me also add that one of the most exciting developments over the past
couple of years is the increasing turn to virtue ethics and ethics of care
from _within_ the ICT design and engineering communities, e.g.,


Jackson, Damian, Aldrovandi, Carlo and Hayes, Paul. Ethical Framework for a
Disaster Management Decision Support System Which Harvests Social Media
Data on a Large Scale. N. Bellamine Ben Saoud et al. (Eds.): ISCRAM-med
2015, LNBIP 233, pp. 167–180, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24399-3_15.


Spiekermann, Sarah. 2016. *Ethical IT Innovation: A Value-based System
Design Approach*. New York: Taylor & Francis.


Spiekermann’s implementations of virtue ethics in ICT design underlies
nothing less than the critical new initiative of the IEEE, "Global
Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems"
(<http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html>)


Zevenbergen, Ben. 2016. "Networked Systems Ethics." Ethics in Networked
Systems Research: Ethical, Legal and Policy reasoning for Internet
Engineering. Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. <
http://networkedsystemsethics.net/>


Zevenbergen, Bendert, Mittelstadt, Brent, Véliz, Carissa, Detweiler, Chris,
Cath, Corinne, Savulescu, Julian, and Whittaker, Meredith. 2015. Philosophy
meets Internet Engineering: Ethics in Networked Systems Research. (GTC
workshop outcomes paper). Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.


This is to say: *contra* our tendencies to assume something like the
disciplinary equivalent of the Berlin Wall between the more technical and
more humanistic fields - these recent examples exemplify clear and explicit
incorporation of not only utilitarian and deontological frameworks, but
comparatively more recent ethics of care and (feminist) virtue ethics as
well.


And, if anyone is interested in the authors I mentioned previously:

Vallor, Shannon. 2011a. Carebots and Caregivers: Sustaining the Ethical
Ideal of Care in the Twenty-First Century. *Philosophy of  Technology*
24:251–268.

Vallor, Shannon 2011b. Flourishing on Facebook: Virtue friendship & new
social media. *Ethics and Information Technology 14*(3): 185–199.

Vallor, Shannon. 2015. Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine
Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character. *Philosophy of
Technology 28*:107–124.
Vallor, Shannon. 2016.  *Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide
to a Future Worth Wanting*. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

van Wynsberghe, Aimee. 2013. Designing Robots for Care: Care Centered
Value-Sensitive Design, *Science and Engineering Ethics, *19, 407–433.


Enjoy!

- charles ess

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Jill Walker Rettberg <
Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> After the US elections I am sure many of us, whereever we live, are
> thinking about how to plan next semester’s teaching so that it helps equip
> the next generation to deal with an increasingly frightening world.
>
> Within internet research, some obvious topics we can discuss are things
> like polarisation of polticial views, filter bubbles, algorithmic news
> filtering and the increasing spread of fake news. More generally, we can
> design activities that foster critical thinking, empathy, understanding of
> people who are not like oneself, and relate this to
> technology/internet/media.
>
> Maybe this would also be a good time to bring discussions of pre-internet
> media and technology and their role in the years before WW2, or even
> earlier dangerous times, and to compare this to social media etc today?
>
> I don’t yet have very clear ideas about this, but I would love to share
> ideas with other internet researchers who teach and who want to do the best
> we can in our teaching to counteract the racism, sexism, hatred, distrust
> of government and of others, and general division that is not only
> affecting the USA but obviously Europe and other parts of the world as well.
>
> I know many of us already teach these things, but maybe not in as focused
> a way as I think we may need to do in future? Or maybe the resources I’m
> longing for already exist?
>
> If you have ideas, please share them! If this is something several of us
> are interested in, we could set up a syllabus/Google doc / Facebook group
> or something. I’m thinking case studies with readings and lesson plans
> would be a really useful resource and might be a way we could do some good
> in all this.
>
> Jill
>
>
> Jill Walker Rettberg
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