Towards ethical information systems: The contribution of discourse ethics;Vers des systèmes d'information éthiques: Le rôle de l'éthique du discours

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mingers, John ^a   Walsham, Geoff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communitarianism; Critical systems heuristics; Critical theory; Deliberative democracy; Discourse ethics; Rawlsian ethics; Soft systems methodology; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITARIANISM; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; CRITICAL THEORY; DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY; DISCOURSE ETHICS; RAWLSIAN ETHICS; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY; WEB 2.0;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84870968183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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