Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.17477/jcea.2021.20.1.151

Building Bridges: Eurocentric to Intercultural Information Ethics  

Gautam, Ayesha (Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi)
Singh, Deepa (Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi)
Publication Information
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia / v.20, no.1, 2021 , pp. 151-168 More about this Journal
Abstract
Misguided use, manipulation, misappropriation, disruption and mismanagement of Information deeply affects the infosphere as well as the social and moral fabric of a society. Information ethics is an attempt to bring the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information within the ambit of ethical standards and moral codes. The diverse and inherently pluralistic nature of societies however puts forth an additional demand on us - to come up with an intercultural information ethics. An intercultural ethics which is other-centric, context sensitive and workable without being homogenizing, patronizing and colonizing. An endeavor in that direction has already been made by proponents of intercultural information ethics like: Charles M. Ess, Fay Sudweeks, Rafael Capurro, Pak-Hang Wong, Soraj Hongladarom et al. In our paper, we propose that the kind of ethical pluralism being sought in the domain of information ethics can be attained by having a reappraisal of the current methodological strategies, by casting a critical relook at the Eurocentric ethical model. This paper analyses the current framework of Intercultural Information Ethics. And in an endeavour to move towards an all-encompassing, other-centric, workable, intercultural, harmonious and compassionate model of 'Pluralistic Information Ethics', it proposes the Indian / Asian philosophical method of 'Samvāda' to the current inventory which includes methods like: 'parrhesia/free speech' and 'interpretive phronēsis.
Keywords
Information Ethics (IE); Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE); Samvad; Infosphere; Dialogue; Parrhesia; Eurocentrism; phronesis;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 Mohanty, J. N. (1992). On Matilal's understanding of Indian Philosophy. Philosophy East and West, 42(3), 397-406.   DOI
2 Nagel, T (1986). The View From Nowhere. New York: Oxford University Press.
3 Prasad, R. (Ed.). (1989). Ends and Means in Private and Public Life. New Delhi: Indian Institute of Advanced Study in association with Indus Pub. Co.
4 Stahl, B. C. (2008). Discourses on information ethics: The claim to universality. Ethics and Information Technology, 10(2-3), 97-108.   DOI
5 Thapar, R. (2020). Voices of Dissent: An essay. Calcutta: Seagull Books.
6 Weiskopf, R., & Tobias-Miersch, Y. (2016). Whistleblowing, parrhesia and the contestation of truth in the workplace. Organization Studies, 37(11), 1621-1640.   DOI
7 Chib, A., May, J. & Barrantes, R. (Eds.). (2015). Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South. London: Springer Open.
8 Al-Fedaghi, S. (2010, February). Alternative model for information ethics. In 2010 Second International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (pp. 62-67). IEEE.
9 Boellstorff, T., Helmreich, S., Jones, G. M., Pedersen, M. A., Salmond, A., & Boellstorff, T. (2016). For whom the ontology turns: Theorizing the digital real. Current Anthropology, 57(4), 387-407. doi:10.1086/687362.   DOI
10 Bowie, N. (1985). Review of Computer ethics. Metaphilosophy, 16(4), 319-322.   DOI
11 Burman, A. (2019).Will a GDPR-style Data Protection Law Work For India?. Carnegie India. https://carnegieindia.org/2019/05/15/will-gdpr-style-data-protection-law-work-for-indiapub-79113
12 Capurro, R. (2008). Intercultural Information Ethics: Foundations and Applications. Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, 6( 2), 116-126.   DOI
13 Bynum, T. W. (2018). Computer and Information Ethics. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Summer 2018 Edition). California: Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/ethicscomputer
14 Bynum, T. W. (2006). Flourishing ethics. Ethics and Information Technology, 8(4), 157-173.   DOI
15 Capurro, R. (2006). Towards an ontological foundation of information ethics. Ethics and information technology, 8(4), 175-186.   DOI
16 Dodig Crnkovic, G., & Hofkirchner, W. (2011). Floridi's "Open Problems in Philosophy of Information", ten years later. Information, 2(2), 327-359.   DOI
17 Ali, M. (2018). Indian Philosophy and Ethics: Dialogical Method as a Fresh Possibility, Sophia, 57(3), 443-455.   DOI
18 Ess, C. (2002). Computer-mediated colonization, the renaissance, and educational imperatives for an intercultural global village. Ethics and Information Technology 4, 11-22.   DOI
19 Ess, C. (2009). Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics: Current perspectives, future directions. The information society, 25(3), 159-168.   DOI
20 Fruhbauer, J., Capurro, R., & Hausmanninger, T. (2007). Localizing the Internet: Ethical aspects in intercultural perspective. Munchen: Fink.
21 Ganeri, J. (2001). Philosophy in classical India: The proper work of reason. London: Routledge.
22 Capurro, R. (2008). Information ethics for and from Africa. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(7), 1162-1170.   DOI
23 European Union. (May 23, 2018). General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Official Legal Text. https://www.gdpr-info.eu
24 Brey, P. (2007). Is information ethics culture-relative?. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction , 3(3), 12-24.   DOI
25 Bynum, T. W. (2004). Ethical challenges to citizens of 'The automatic Age': Norbert Wiener on the information society. Journal of information, communication and ethics in society, 2(2), 65-74.   DOI
26 Dancy J. (2005). The Particularist's Progress. In Ronnow-Rasmussen, T. & Zimmerman, M. J. (Eds.), Recent Work on Intrinsic Value (pp. 33-44). Dordrecht: Springer.
27 Elberfeld. R. (2000). Resonance as a Fundamental Motif of East Asian. In Elberfeld, R. and Wohlfart, G. (Eds.), Comparative Ethics: The Good Life between Cultures (pp. 131-141), Cologne: Chora.
28 Floridi, L. (Ed.). (2008). Philosophy of Computing and Information: 5 Questions. New York: Automatic Press.
29 Floridi, L. (2013). The Ethics of Information. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30 Nishigaki, T. (2006). The ethics in Japanese information society: Consideration on Francisco Varela's The Embodied Mind from the perspective of fundamental informatics. Ethics and Information Technology, 8(4), 237-242.   DOI
31 Floridi, L. (Ed.). (2010). The Cambridge handbook of information and computer ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
32 Hongladarom, S., & Britz, J. (2009). Intercultural information ethics. International Review of Information Ethics 11, 2-5.   DOI
33 Kimmerle, H. (2016). Hegel's Eurocentric Concept of Philosophy. Confluence: Journal of World Philosophies, 1. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/confluence/article/view/524
34 Strain, C. (2016). Engaged Buddhist Practice and Ecological Ethics: Challenges and Reformulations. Worldviews, 20(2),189-210.   DOI
35 Bielby, J. (2016). Comparative Philosophies in Intercultural Information Ethics. Confluence: Journal of World Philosophies, 2. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/confluence/article/view/540
36 Joseph, M. (2021, January 31). How to choose a moral stand on the farmer agitation. www.livemint.com.https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/how-to-choose-a-moralstand-on-the-farmer-agitation-11612109290880.html
37 Mathiesen, K. (2004). What is information ethics?. Computers and Society, 32(8). http://www.computersandsociety.org/sigcas_ofthefuture2/sigcas/subpage/sub_page.cfm?arti cle=909&page_number_nb=901
38 United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. (n.d.). Information Ethics. https://en.unesco.org/themes/information-ethics
39 Westin, A. F. (1967). Privacy and Freedom. New York: Atheneum Press.
40 Wong, P. H. (2010). The 'Good Life' in Intercultural Information Ethics: A New Agenda. The International Review of Information Ethics, 13, 26-32.   DOI
41 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. (2018). Draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018. https://prsindia.org/billtrack/draft-personal-dataprotection-bill-2018#:~:text=Definitions%3A%20The%20Bill%20defines%20
42 Kumaraguru, P., Cranor, L. & F., Newton, E. (2005). Privacy perceptions in India and the United states: An interview study. [Paper presentation]. 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy TPRC. Arlington, Virginia. https://precog.iiitd.edu.in/Publications_files/tprc_2005_pk_lc_en
43 Macpherson, C. B., & Cunningham, F. (1962). The political theory of possessive individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
44 Mahalakshmi, G. S., & Geetha, T. V. (2010). Representing Knowledge Effectively Using Indian Logic. TMRF e-book, Advanced Knowledge based Systems, Model, Applications, Research, 1, 12-28.
45 Mohapatra, P. K. (2019). Ethical Theorizing in Indian Philosophy. In An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics (pp. 49-63). Singapore: Springer.
46 Morozov, E. (2013). To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism and the Urge to Fix Problems That Don't Exist. London: Allen Lane.
47 Internet Freedom Foundation. (2021, February 6). Statement on long overdue 4G mobile internet restoration in Jammu & Kashmir after 550 days #KeepItOn. https://internetfreedom.in/statement-j-k-4g-restoration/
48 Pokhrel A.K. (2011). Eurocentrism. In Chatterjee D.K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_25
49 Floridi, L. (1999). Information ethics: On the philosophical foundation of computer ethics. Ethics and information technology, 1(1), 33-52.   DOI
50 Evens, A. (2010). Digital ontology and example. In Gaffney, P. (Ed.) The force of the virtual: Deleuze, Science, and Philosophy (pp. 147-168). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
51 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India (2000). Information Technology Act 2000. https://www.meity.gov.in/content/information-technology-act-2000
52 Siponen, M. (2004). A pragmatic evaluation of the theory of information ethics. Ethics and Information Technology, 6(4), 279-290.   DOI
53 Spinuzzi, C. (2005). The methodology of participatory design. Technical communication, 52(2), 163-174.
54 Sturges, P. (2009). Information ethics in the twenty-first century. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 40(4), 241-251.   DOI
55 Long, B. (2020). ISR is still a digital ontology. Erkenntnis, 85(3), 649-664.   DOI
56 Hayek, F. A. (1960). The constitution of liberty: The definitive edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
57 Edelglass, W. (2006). Moral pluralism, skillful means, and environmental ethics. Environmental Philosophy, 3(2), 8-16.   DOI
58 Floridi, L. (2010). Information: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.