Constructing the Future of Social Work Tech Habits of Mind With the Ethical OS

Bibliographic Data

ID2501604
AuthorsTonya Bibbs (0000-0001-6771-8453, Erikson Institute, corresponding author), Tonya D Bibbs, Samantha N Wolfe-Taylor (0000-0001-5146-2609, Indiana University), Samantha Wolfe-Taylor, Naomi Alston (0009-0007-7871-2664, Indiana University), Nicole Alston, M L Barron (Indiana University), Mackenzie Barron, Lillian Beaudoin (0009-0008-4944-3386, California State University, Northridge), Samuel L Bradley (Boston College), Samuel Bradley, Alexis Speck Glennon (0000-0002-0805-9109, University at Buffalo, State University of New York), Julie Munoz-Najar (University of Illinois System), Laura Burney Nissen (0000-0003-3557-0786, Portland State University), Laura Nissen, Juan Alemany Ríos (Seton Hall University), Juan Rios, Hannah S Szlyk (0000-0001-7337-8475, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Hannah Szlyk, Anjanette Wells (0000-0002-5948-7701, University of Cincinnati), Jaehee Yi (0000-0001-7684-6537, University of Utah), Jimmy A Young, Jimmy Young (0000-0003-0566-1783, California State University, San Marcos)
Year2023
Volume23
Issue1
Pages132-147
Publication date2023-08-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1527-8565 • E-ISSN: 2331-4125
PublisherIUPUI University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18060/24978
OpenAlexW4385857989
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Technological innovation has long been seen as a hallmark of progress in the modern world. While these advances may facilitate advantages to individual and social well-being, they have the potential for creating new areas of risk and expanding on those that already exist. In addition, a global pandemic has reshaped how we interact with one another, as more people connect online. Social work's ongoing relationship with technology necessitates that we evaluate and re-envision how tech ethics create, shape, and transform social work practice. This paper has three goals. First, we argue that technologies have long been a hidden driver of social work practice and provide an initial mapping of their current influence. Second, we introduce the Ethical OS as a tool for conceptualizing ethical issues that may arise in social work practice, education, and policy. We ask if this tool could promote seeing around corners regarding how developing technologies might be advantageous or disadvantageous for reference or consumer groups. For example, how do they reify historical injustices such as structural racism and how do they offer remediation? Third, we discuss the importance of building coherent, social work tech habits of mind, in practice now and for the future

Engineering ethics · Political science · Public relations · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work