Seeking Digital Humanities, IT Tech Support
Herbert Bruderer explains why the opposite of digital is not analog; Robin K. Hill describes how the challenges of user support are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Robin K. Hill
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A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Assessing Responsibility for Program Output
We lack an easy way to indicate that algorithms do not make decisions and are not biased; programmers do, and are.
First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
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