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December 2022

Ethics and Education

Contributive justice needs civic education to explain why people should get involved, civic participation to get people involved, and civic dignity to meaningfully benefit people for getting involved. Or contributive justice needs civic dignity to set standards and examples for prosocial behavior, civic education to enable such behavior to be observed and imitated used social learning, and civic participation as a platform for this learned behavior to be put into meaningful practice.

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• An Artful Approach: Reflecting on the Past to Forewarn and Foretell by Christine Perakslis Posted in: Articles, Human Impacts, Last Word, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - From the social unity of Ubuntu to the socially ingrained dispositions of habitus, our authors helped us to perceive the value of intentionally… ...  Read More
• Riding the New York Subway: The Invention of the Modern Passenger by A. David Wunsch Posted in: Articles, Book Reviews, Case Studies, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Stefan Höhne dives into a wealth of letters—correspondence sent to the New York City Transit Authority in the period 1955–1968. ...  Read More
• Data Feminism by Daniene Byrne Posted in: Articles, Book Reviews, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - In Data Feminism, authors Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein do not merely deal with data. They pair data with… ...  Read More
• Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography by A. David Wunsch Posted in: Articles, Book Reviews, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Good Pictures is about the advice given to photographers—mostly amateurs—on the techniques they should use to improve their work. Of… ...  Read More
• Learning From Indigenous Cultures by Marc Steen Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - We would act wisely if we turn to alternative ways of thinking, other wisdom traditions, and learn from them. Ubuntu philosophy… ...  Read More
• Humanistic Engineering: Engineering for the People by Matthew L. Bolton Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commentary, Environment, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - While it is true that technology is addressing problems and making elements of some people’s lives easier, there are aggregate… ...  Read More
• Contributive Justice and Self-Actualizing Systems by Jeremy Pitt Posted in: Articles, Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - How can local (grassroots) contributive justice be used as a driving force for the common good? ...  Read More
• Not a Valediction by Clint Andrews Posted in: Articles, Magazine Articles, President's Message, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) has had many volunteers step into leadership positions for purposefully limited… ...  Read More
• Making It Strange by Charles Wallace Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - In this time of massive growth in the scale and scope of technological innovations, it is more important than ever… ...  Read More

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