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Developers, Designers and Distributors

In: The Integrity of Intelligence

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  • Bryan Glastonbury

    (University of Southampton)

  • Walter Lamendola

    (Colorado Trust)

Abstract

Summary This chapter focuses specifically upon those organizations and individuals who control IT because they know about it, design and produce it. Attention is paid both to the values implicit in the connections of IT companies to the rest of society (that is to the handling of manufacture, distribution, price setting and marketing), and to the more concealed values which are embedded in the types of IT systems and software which are developed. The argument is made that IT, far from being ethically neutral, is substantially value-laden; and while little can be done to alter this at source, because it is integral to the process of IT creativity, the existence and direction of the embedded values should be fully recognized and tackled within the wider society.

Suggested Citation

  • Bryan Glastonbury & Walter Lamendola, 1992. "Developers, Designers and Distributors," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jo Campling (ed.), The Integrity of Intelligence, chapter 7, pages 98-111, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22734-1_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22734-1_7
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