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Languaging Ethics in Technology Practice

Author
Colin M. Gray, S. Chivukula, Janna Johns, Matthew Will, Ike Obi, Ziqing Li
Date
12 Apr 2023
Publisher
ACM Journal on Responsible Computing
Focus
Design Practice
Category
Academic Scholar

How the languaging of ethics reveals opportunities to definitionally and practically engage with ethics in technology ethics research, practice, and education is described.

Ethics as embodied by technology practitioners resists simple definition—particularly as it relates to the interplay of identity, organizational, and professional complexity. In this article, we use the linguistic notion of languaging as an analytic lens to describe how technology and design practitioners negotiate their conception of ethics as they reflect upon their everyday work. We engaged 12 practitioners in individual co-creation workshops, encouraging them to reflect on their ethical role in their everyday work through a series of generative and evaluative activities.