Understanding digital ethics : cases and contexts /
"Rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media signals a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and social implications of the digital, and of specific digital technologies. Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts is the first book to offer a philoso...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- An Introduction
- Our Approach
- References
- Part 1 Ethical and Digital Literacy
- Chapter 1 Becoming Literate in Digital Ethics
- The (Self-Driving) Trolley Problem
- Digital Literacy
- Ethical Literacy
- Digital Stakeholders
- Why the Nature of the Digital Matters
- Next Up
- References
- Chapter 2 Moral Viewpoints in Digital Contexts
- Ethical Theories, Principles, and Problems
- A Primer on Ethical Theories
- Utilitarianism
- Deontology
- Virtue Ethics
- Contractarian Ethics
- The Ethics of Care
- Pragmatic Pluralism for Digital Ethics
- Applying Theories in a Pluralistic Approach
- Next Up
- References
- Chapter 3 Motivating Action in Digital Ethics
- Moral Motivation
- Reasoning to Action
- A Virtue Ethics Approach to the Problem of Motivation
- Avoiding Amotivation
- Next Up
- References
- Part 2 The Nature of Digital Ethics
- Chapter 4 Speed and Scope of Digital Information (Distributedness)
- Digital vs Analog Distribution
- Distribution and the Novelty of the Digital
- The Ethics of Distribution
- Agency as Distributed
- Ownership and Privacy as Distributed
- Three Examples
- Responsibility as Distributed
- Next Up
- References
- Chapter 5 Moral Algorithms and Ethical Machines (Programmability and Procedurality)
- Programmability and Algorithmic Bias
- Procedurality and Black Box Computing
- The Personalized and the Procedural
- Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Procedures
- Cooperative Computing and Machine Ethics
- Advanced Robotics and the Ethics of Digital Companions
- Next Up
- References
- Chapter 6 The Digital and the Human (Embeddedness)
- An Embedded Existence
- Selves and Identities
- Privacy and Anonymity
- Organizational Values.
- Cultural Change and Relationships
- Special Considerations
- Next Up
- References
- Part 3 Implications of Digital Ethics
- Chapter 7 Digital Relations and Empathy Machines
- Defining Key Terms: Empathy, Sympathy, and Other Strange Beasts
- So What for Digital Ethics?
- Digital Desensitization
- Nonhuman Empathy
- Empathy Machines
- Next Up
- References
- Chapter 8 Agency, Autonomy, and Action
- Autonomy and the Autonomous
- From Apple Inc. to Teenage Repellant: Agency in the Digital Age
- Virtual Good and Evil in Networked Spaces: Digital Agency and Sociality
- The Physical Rise and Virtual Fall of Justine Sacco: Digital Agency and Time
- Ghosts in the Machine: Self-Contained Electronic Memorials
- Next Up
- References
- Chapter 9 Digital and Ethical Activism
- Challenges of Motivating Action through Policy
- Policymaking in Research and Professional Organizations
- Policymaking for Individuals and Communities
- Policies for the Digital
- Motivating Action through Practice
- Political Action
- Administrative Action
- Personal and Community Action
- Water Warriors: The Concerned Citizens of Brant
- Next Up
- References
- Conclusion: Digital and Moral Literacies
- Living in (Digital) Communities
- Case Studies and Argumentation
- Future Work
- Understanding Digital Ethics
- References
- Appendix: Developing Cases in Digital Ethics
- Index.