Behaviour and morals online will be discussed at a workshop on Ethics and the World Wide Web as part of the British Library's Growing Knowledge exhibition. The workshop will be held at the Foyle Centre in the British Library on December 2, 2010.
Co-sponsored by The Web Science Trust, the seminar will focus on the fact that although the World Wide Web is the most complex piece of technology ever engineered and has transformed almost every aspect of everyday life, little is known about appropriate ethical behaviour online. The event will seek to improve understanding of what that stronger ethic will need to be.
To explore these issues, the workshop has invited keynote speeches, panel discussions and debate with an invited audience of practising engineers, academic researchers and philosophers. The keynote speakers are: Kieron O'Hara from the Web Science Trust, Luciano Floridi for the University of Hertfordshire/University of Oxford and Jeroen van den Hoven from the Delft University of Technology. The panel will include Martin Moore (Media Standards Trust); Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton); Yorick Wilks (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition/University of Oxford); and David Wright (Trilateral Research)
Growing Knowledge – the Evolution of Research (12 October 2010 – 16 July 2011) showcases some never-seen-before research tools, thought-provoking content and futuristic design in a fully interactive research environment. The exhibition aims to challenge audiences on how research is changing and ask what they want to experience from the library of the future. The British Library has worked closely with Researcher in Residence, Aleks Krotoski to ensure that visitors will not only experience an exhibition not seen before at the Library but also engage with the ongoing debate about the usefulness of these technologies in tomorrow's knowledge environment.
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