Dear AoIR-ists Please pass this on to graduate students and/or faculty who may be interested in and able to participate in the course and/or workshop. Apologies for duplicate postings - and any comments and suggestions from this group especially welcome! -- charles ess == Interdisciplinary Graduate Course Bridging Cultures: Computer Ethics, Culture, and ICT Place: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Time: May 23rd 27th 2005 Lecturer: Charles Ess, distinguished research professor, Interdisciplinary Studies at Drury University, USA and professor II at NTNU (Globalization and Program for Applied Ethics). Course overview The graduate course "Bridging cultures" takes up many of the central ethical challenges that arise in conjunction with information and communication technologies. The title "Bridging cultures" is intended to signify problems regarding the relation between cultural diversity and global information technologies, as well as the bridging of humanistic and scientific disciplines. The course will primarily focus on three interrelated aspects: 1. Developing a basic "ethical toolkit" that will provide participants with a range of terms and approaches to ethical analysis and decision-making with regard to common issues in computer and information sciences. This includes notions of professional responsibilities of programmers, HCI designers, etc. 2. Disclosing how cultural values and communicative preferences are embedded in the design and implementation of Computer-mediated Communication technologies. Here we will explore a basic set of conceptual tools for analysing various dimensions of cultural values and communicative preferences, in order to develop guidelines for "best practices" in design and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies. 3. Examining how the cultures of the humanities and the sciences, including computer and information sciences, as academic disciplines may be bridged, thereby bringing ethics together with computer and information science. Our hope here is to build bridges between these disciplines that will foster further interdisciplinary collaboration. Deadline for registration is May 6th, 2005. Go to the Programme for Applied Ethics' website <http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php> for more detailed information, including schedule, reading list and electronic registration. We would also like to inform you that in addition to the graduate course, a workshop on related topics will be held at NTNU on june 6th-7th (and possibly 8th), 2005. Confirmed speakers are Charles Ess, Luciano Floridi, Deborah Wheeler, May Thorseth, Bernd Carsten Stahl, Johnny Søraker, Dag Elgesem and Knut Rolland. == Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23