 |
Courting Culture in Computer Science
Batya Friedman
- Introduction
- Structured Educational Activities
- Unstructured Educational Activities
- Conclusion
- References
I began my talk today with the suggestion that computer
scientists need more adequately to court culture. I have tried to provide
a sense of what is meant by this idea through the structured and unstructured
activities. Taken as a whole, these activities represent a position that
education involves, among other things, a process of social transformation.
Now, this is a powerful if not, unfortunately, loaded term because of
recent discussions surrounding “political correctness”? and
leads to ideas I do not have time to develop here. But because of the
possibility of misinterpretation, I should at least mention that in my
view social transformation is bounded by an objectivity. For partly through
the nature of rigorous analytic scrutiny not everything goes. Not every
position can be defended. Indeed, from a non-political perspective, it
is the rigorous analytical scrutiny in consort with humanistic sensibilities
that lead us as a discipline to respond constructively to the pressing
social problems that arise out of our very practice.
Colby College
Home > Teaching Resources > Teaching Computer Ethics > Courting Culture in Computer Science
HOME | IN
THE NEWS | RESEARCH RESOURCES
TEACHING
RESOURCES | STUDENT
RESOURCES
LINKS | THE
GALLERY | STAFF
The Research Center on Computing & Society
at Southern Connecticut
State University
501 Crescent Street • New Haven, CT 06515
Director: (203) 392-6790 •
e-mail: webmaster@computerethics.org
© 2000 – 2007 – Research Center on Computing & Society