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What is Dilemma

Chapter 15
Handbook of Research on Technoethics
Sociocognitive and socioaffective conflict forcing them to choose one of the values opposed.
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Ethical Controversy over Information and Communication Technology
Pilar Alejandra Cortés Pascual (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-022-6.ch015
Abstract
‘What positive and negative aspects are perceived of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)?’ and ‘What dilemmas arise regarding these technologies?’ are the two questions addressed in this chapter. First of all, we have conducted a theoretical analysis comparing various ICT characteristic from two different perspectives: the positive and the negative ones of ICT. Secondly, we present the results in two work modules conducted in the Observation Laboratory of Technoethics for Adults (LOTA) project, already explained in the previous chapter, with an inference towards intervention.
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Chapter 2
Socioeconomic Development in Balochistan: A Dilemma
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Chapter 9
Identifying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Curricula of Leading U.S. Executive MBA Programs
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Impact of Ethical Dilemmas on the Dignity of Higher Education and Research
Predicament; a difficult choice to be made in a situation that affects moral values.
Published in Chapter: Impact of Ethical Dilemmas on the Dignity of Higher Education and Research; From: Handbook of Research on Higher Education in the MENA Region: Policy and Practice
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Chapter 9
The Christian Perspective on Worldly Practices in 21st Century Nigeria
A dilemma is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The possibilities are termed the horns of the dilemma, a clichéd usage, but distinguishing the dilemma from other kinds of predicament as a matter of usage. In such a dilemma, choosing one moral will result in violating another; or, doing one thing could bring positive results but is morally wrong. A common example is stealing from the rich to feed the poor.
Published in Chapter: The Christian Perspective on Worldly Practices in 21st Century Nigeria; From: Phenomenological Approaches to Religion and Spirituality
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Chapter 31
Unstructured Information as a Socio-Technical Dilemma
A social dilemma would imply a situation where a person decides between promoting his personal interest or according to collective interest. Some people use dilemma to describe a rhetorical construction where participants’ accounts frequently draw on opposing themes as part of there sense making process, in their construction of claims and in justifying and corroborating these. Categorization and particularisation are such opposing themes.
Published in Chapter: Unstructured Information as a Socio-Technical Dilemma; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
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