Understanding digital ethics : cases and contexts / Jonathan Beever, Rudy McDaniel, Nancy Stanlick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beever, Jonathan, 1980- author.

McDaniel, Rudy, author.

Stanlick, Nancy A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Technology.

Digital media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"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 philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear parts, the authors discuss and explain the following key topics : Becoming Literate in Digital Ethics Moral Viewpoints in Digital Contexts Motivating Action in Digital Ethics Speed and Scope of Digital Information Moral Algorithms and Ethical Machines The Digital and the Human Digital Relations and Empathy Machines Agents, Autonomy, and Action Digital and Ethical Activism. The book includes cases and examples that explore the ethical implications of digital hardware and software including videogames, social media platforms, autonomous vehicles, robots, voice enabled personal assistants, smartphones, artificially intelligent chatbots, military drones, and more. Understanding Digital Ethics is essential reading for students and scholars of philosophical ethics, those working on topics related to digital technology and digital/moral literacy, and practitioners in related fields"-- Provided by publisher.

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

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

Chapter 3 Motivating Action in Digital Ethics

Moral Motivation

Reasoning to Action

A Virtue Ethics Approach to the Problem of Motivation

Avoiding Amotivation

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusion: Digital and Moral Literacies

Living in (Digital) Communities

Case Studies and Argumentation

Future Work

Understanding Digital Ethics

Appendix: Developing Cases in Digital Ethics

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-28211-9

1-315-28212-7

1-315-28213-5

9781315282138

OCLC:

1123184308