Ethical and social dimensions of digital technologies : views from the AoIR / guest editor Charles M. Ess.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ess, Charles M., editor.

Series:

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 1477-996X ; Volume 19 Number 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

Summary:

This collaboration was initiated in early 2019 by Simon Rogerson, Chief Editor of JICES. As he noted, JICES aims to "...promote thoughtful dialogue regarding the wider social and ethical issues related to the planning, development, implementation and use of new media and information and communication technologies" (2019). The Journal thereby offers "necessary interdisciplinary, culturally and geographically diverse works essential to understanding the impacts of the pervasive new media and information and communication technologies." At the same time, Prof. Rogerson observed in the call for the AoIR 2019 conference "great resonance between the aims of AoIR and JICES" (ibid). I hardly needed persuading. As someone who has also engaged with JICES and its affiliated ETHICOMP conferences for some time, this resonance is clear: the AoIR community has fostered critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication - in particular, regarding internet research ethics - since its inception in 2000. Following the model of the AoIR annual ebook published by Information, Communication and Society, made up of papers selected from the annual conference, Prof. Rogerson proposed a similar collaboration, "focusing on the ethical and social impact of the Internet" (ibid). Certainly, AoIR panels and presentations on these themes have subsequently appeared over the years as chapters in journals and anthologies addressing the widely interdisciplinary communities represented within AoIR. But this new collaboration promised a singular advantage: "Through JICES the work of AoIR would reach out to the information and computer ethics community and have the potential of new membership and increased influence" (Rogerson 2019; for a much more extensive exploration of the overlaps here, see Ess 2020b).

Contents:

Cover

Guest editorial

Global ethics for the digital age - flourishing ethics

Virtue ethics, situationism and casuistry: toward a digital ethics beyond exemplars

Four challenges to Confucian virtue ethics in technology

Towards a political theory of data justice: a public good perspective

Ethical challenges of researching emergent socio-material-technological phenomena: insights from an interdisciplinary mixed-methods project using mobile eye-tracking

On the complexities of studying sensitive communities online as a researcher-participant.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80262-798-7