Inequality Is the Name of the Game: Thoughts on the Emerging Field of Technology, Ethics and Social Justice

Sloane, Mona

Inequality Is the Name of the Game: Thoughts on the Emerging Field of Technology, Ethics and Social Justice

dc.contributor.author	Sloane, Mona
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T11:48:57Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T11:48:57Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	This paper argues that the hype around ‘ethics’ as panacea for remedying algorithmic discrimination is a smokescreen for carrying on with business as usual. First, it analyses how the current discourses around digital innovation and algorithmic technologies (including artificial intelligence or AI), newly emerging technology policy and governmental funding patterns as well as global industry developments are currently re-configured around ‘ethical’ considerations. Here, the paper shows how this phenomenon can be broken down into policy approaches and technological approaches. Second, it sets out to provide three pillars for a sociological framework that can help reconceptualize the algorithmic harm and discrimination as an issue of social inequality, rather than ethics. Here, it builds on works on data classification, human agency in design and intersectional inequality. To conclude, the paper suggests three pragmatic steps that should be taken in order to center social justice in technology policy and computer science education.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Sloane, M. (2019). Inequality Is the Name of the Game: Thoughts on the Emerging Field of Technology, Ethics and Social Justice. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019: Challenges of Digital Inequality, 62–70. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.9
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.9
dc.identifier.eissn	2510-7666
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/48
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartof	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.32
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Technology (Applied sciences)	en
dc.subject	Technology Assessment	en
dc.subject	technological progress	en
dc.subject	artificial intelligence	en
dc.subject	social justice	en
dc.subject	technological change	en
dc.subject	algorithm	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	social inequality	en
dc.subject	digital divide	en
dc.subject	Technik, Technologie	de
dc.subject	Algorithms	de
dc.subject	Ethics	de
dc.subject	Inequality	de
dc.subject	Sociology	de
dc.subject	Design	de
dc.subject	Technikfolgenabschätzung	de
dc.subject	künstliche Intelligenz	de
dc.subject	Digitale Spaltung	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	Algorithmus	de
dc.subject	technischer Wandel	de
dc.subject	technischer Fortschritt	de
dc.subject	soziale Gerechtigkeit	de
dc.subject	soziale Ungleichheit	de
dc.subject.ddc	600 Technik
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.subject.ddc	004 Informatik
dc.title	Inequality Is the Name of the Game: Thoughts on the Emerging Field of Technology, Ethics and Social Justice
dc.type	ConferencePaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitle	Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend	70
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart	62