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What is IIE (Intercultural Information Ethics)

Handbook of Research on Technoethics
Problematization of topics such as the relations between the public and the private in the information era from the ontological viewpoints and also from the views motivated by comparison of people’s ways of life in different cultures.
Published in Chapter:
The Public / Private Debate: A Contribution to Intercultural Information Ethics
Makoto Nakada (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Rafael Capurro (Stuttgart Media University, Germany)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-022-6.ch023
Abstract
In this article we give an overview of the range and characteristics of intercultural information ethics (IIE) focusing on the public/private debate in the so-called information age. IIE is a relatively newly emerging field which addresses a variety of issues such as similarities and differences of views on the public/private spheres in different cultural and social traditions, the comparative analysis of moral norms of communication in global information network(s) or the Seken-Shakai-Ikai trichotomy as a specific typology of structures underlying today’s Japanese information society. We examine these problems, in particular the public/private debate, from a perspective in which cultural differences arise from the underlying dimension of sharing with others a common world and with special reference to the differences between Japanese and Western culture(s).
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