Information and human values /

• Main Author: Fleischmann, Kenneth R., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA)] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]
• Series: Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services ; #31.
• Subjects: Values.; Education > Moral and ethical aspects.; Computer simulation > Moral and ethical aspects.; Information technology > Moral and ethical aspects.; Content analysis (Communication); Moral education > United States.; PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.; human values; value-sensitive design; core values of librarianship; social psychology; science and technology studies; information studies; Electronic books.
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This book seeks to advance our understanding of the relationship between information and human values by synthesizing the complementary but typically disconnected threads in the literature, reflecting on my 15 years of research on the relationship between information and human values, advancing our...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why human values?
• 2. Approaches to understanding values
• 2.1 Social psychology of human values
• 2.2 Values and information use
• 2.3 Values and technology design
• 2.4 Value conflicts in information technology design and use.
• 3. Education and human values
• 3.1 Biology education and human values
• 3.2 Medical education and human values
• 3.3 Information ethics education and human values.
• 4. Technology and human values
• 4.1 Trust, transparency, and accountability
• 4.2 Value conflicts
• 4.3 Professionalization and codes of ethics.
• 5. Communication and human values
• 5.1 Manual content analysis of human values in communication
• 5.2 Crowdsourced content analysis of human values in communication
• 5.3 Automatic content analysis of human values in communication.
• 6. Synthesis: Reconsidering information and human values.
• 7. A research agenda for information and human values
• References
• Author biography.