Owning Ethics Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics

In response to a cycle of ethical and political crises, Silicon Valley technology companies have begun placing significant resources into "ethics" initiatives, including assigning executive-level staff to coordinate product design practices and review policies across their organizations. T...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Social research Jg. 86; H. 2; S. 449 - 476
Hauptverfasser:	Metcalf, Jacob, Moss, Emanuel, boyd, danah
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	New York Johns Hopkins University Press 01.07.2019
Schlagworte:	Acquaintances Artificial intelligence Business ethics Charisma Clicks Companies Convictions Disclosure Discourses Engineering Ethics Ethnography Evangelism Everyday life Failure Financial disclosure Hedges Hiring Human resources Human rights Institutionalization International law Interviews Job titles Jumping Liability Owners Power Procedural justice Race Respondents Scholarship Seriousness Social research Social responsibility Software Success Talking Technology Tests Universal Declaration of Human Rights Values United States > US Silicon Valley-California
ISSN:	0037-783X, 1944-768X, 1944-768X
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Zusammenfassung:	In response to a cycle of ethical and political crises, Silicon Valley technology companies have begun placing significant resources into "ethics" initiatives, including assigning executive-level staff to coordinate product design practices and review policies across their organizations. These new "ethics owners" are tasked with responding to external challenges to the core logics of Silicon Valley that fuel its outsized power over individuals and society—meritocracy, technological solutionism, and market fundamentalism—by producing "ethics" practices that remain largely bounded by those logics. "Doing ethics" in tech companies consists of working through this tension.
Bibliographie:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14
ISSN:	0037-783X 1944-768X 1944-768X
DOI:	10.1353/sor.2019.0022