Digital Media Ethics

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Charles Ess. Digital Media Ethics

Contents

Guide

Pages

Series title. Digital Media and Society Series

Digital Media Ethics

Copyright page

In memoriam

Foreword Luciano Floridi

Preface to the Third Edition

Notes

Acknowledgments

chapter one Central Issues in the Ethics of Digital Media

Chapter overview

Case-study: Amanda Todd and Anonymous

Introduction

(Ethical) life in the (post-)digital age?

1. Digital media, analogue media: convergence and ubiquity

2. Digital media and “greased information”

3. Digital media as communication media: fluidity, ubiquity, global scope, and selfhood/identity

Digital media ethics: How to proceed?

Is digital media ethics possible? Grounds for hope

How to do ethics in the new mediascape: Dialogical approaches, difference, and pluralism

Further considerations: Ethical judgments

Overview of the book, suggestions for use

Chapter arrangement, reading suggestions

Case-studies; discussion/reflection/writing/research questions

Notes

chapter two Privacy in the (Post-)Digital Era?

Chapter overview

Information and privacy in the global digital age “Privacy” and anonymity online – is there any?

Interlude: Can we meaningfully talk about “culture?”

“Privacy” in the global metropolis: Initial considerations

You don’t have to be paranoid – but it helps ..

If you’re not paranoid yet ... terrorism and state surveillance

“Privacy” and private life: Changing attitudes in the age of social media and mobile devices

“Privacy” and private life: Cultural and philosophical considerations

“Privacy” and private life: First justifications, more cultural differences – transformations and (over-?)convergence

“Privacy” and private life: Cultural differences and ethical pluralism

Philosophical and sociological considerations: New selves, new “privacies?”

1. Culture?

2. The privacy paradox

Notes

chapter three Copying and Distributing via Digital Media: Copyright, Copyleft, Global Perspectives

Chapter overview

The ethics of copying: Is it theft, Open Source, or Confucian homage to the master? Intellectual property: Three (Western) approaches

(a)Copyright in the United States and Europe

(b)Copyleft/FLOSS

FLOSS in practice: the Linux operating system

FLOSS in practice

2. Intellectual property and culture: Confucian ethics and African thought

Notes

chapter four Friendship, Death Online, Slow/Fair Technology, and Democracy

Chapter overview

Friendship online? Initial considerations

Friendship online: Additional considerations

Friendship – and death – online

Slow technology and the Fairphone

Case-study: Are you ethically obliged to purchase a Fairphone?

Digital media and democratization: First considerations

Democracy, technology, cultures

Notes

chapter five Still More Ethical Issues: Digital Sex, Sexbots, and Games

Chapter overview

Introduction: Is pornography* an ethical problem – and, if so, what kind(s)?

Pornography*: More ethical debates and analyses

Pornography* online: A utilitarian analysis

“Complete sex” – a feminist/phenomenological perspective

Sex with robots, anyone?

Now: What about games?

Sex and violence in games

Notes

chapter six Digital Media Ethics: Overview, Frameworks, Resources

Chapter overview

A synopsis of digital media ethics

Basic ethical frameworks

1. Utilitarianism

Strengths and limits

(a)How do we numerically evaluate the possible consequences of our acts?

(b)How far into the future must we consider?

(c)For whom are the consequences that we must consider?

2. Deontology

Difficulties ..

3. Meta-ethical frameworks: Relativism, absolutism (monism), pluralism. Ethical relativism

Ethical absolutism (monism)

Beyond relativism and absolutism: Ethical pluralism

Strengths and limits of ethical pluralism

4. Feminist ethics

Applications to digital media ethics

5. Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics: sample applications to digital media

6. Confucian ethics

Confucian ethics and digital media: sample applications

7. African perspectives

Applications

Notes

References

Index

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Third Edition

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Moreover, our personal data are being collected in ever increasing amounts through the emerging “Internet of Things” (IoT) – e.g., in the name of so-called Smart Cities which promise greater energy efficiencies, better traffic flow, etc., through constant monitoring of individuals and our devices (including, for example, our cars, our electric meters, our smart assistants, and so on), coupled with a growing web of cameras and sensors embedded in the environment around us. It is not difficult to see that the IoT thereby presents still more threats to individual and group privacy (e.g., Rouvroy 2008; Bunz and Meikle 2018, 123–5) – especially as the IoT threatens to easily morph into a total surveillance system, as exemplified in the Chinese SCS.

Thirdly, fluid and interactive digital media enjoy a global scope, which leads to still more urgent ethical issues. Our communications can quickly and easily reach very large numbers of people around the globe: like it or not, our use of digital technologies thus makes us cosmopolitans (citizens of the world) in striking new ways. We are forced to take into account the various and often very diverse cultural perspectives on the ethical issues that emerge in our use of digital media. So I will stress throughout this book how the assumptions and ethical norms of different cultures shape specific ways of reflecting on such matters as privacy (chapter 2), copyright (chapter 3), pornography, sexbots, and violence (chapter 5).

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