Title :
Ethics, law and information technology: the transformative role of rhetoric
Author_Institution :
Central Connecticut State Univ., CT
Abstract :
Following a brief consideration of the role of rhetoric in law and science, the paper explores how rhetorical accounts of new technologies influence the course of legislative, judicial and regulatory decisions. It proposes that such themes have the powerful capacity to determine outcomes and to shape modern concepts of individual as well as societal freedoms and rights
Keywords :
legislation; professional aspects; social aspects of automation; ethics; information technology; judicial decisions; law; legislative decisions; regulatory decisions; rhetoric; science; societal freedom; societal rights; Ethics; History; Humans; Information technology; Logic; Mathematics; Modems; Privacy; Rhetoric; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Technology and Society, 1997. 'Technology and Society at a Time of Sweeping Change'. Proceedings., 1997 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Glasgow
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3982-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISTAS.1997.658862
