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Digital media ethics

Ess, Charles, author.
Cambridge ; Polity Press, 2020

The original edition of this interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digial media from a global, cross-cultural perspective. This third edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest research and developments, including the rise of big data, AI, and the internet of things. The book's case studies and pedagogical material have also been extensively revised and updated to include such watershed events as the Snowden revalations, #Gamergate, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, privacy policy developments, and the emerging Chinese social credit system. New topics include "death online," "slow/fair technology," and material on sexbots. The "ethical toolkit" that introduces prevailing ethical theories and their applications to the central issues of privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online, has likewise been revised and expanded. Each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions, additional resources, and suggestions for further research and writing. Together, these enable readers to foster careful reflection upon, discussion of, and writing about these issues and their possible resolutions.

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Ess, Charles, 1951-
Subject: Digital media
Information society
Publication Year:2020
Language:English
Published:Cambridge ; Polity Press, 2020
ISBN:9781509533435
1509533435
Series:Digital media and society
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-306) and index.
Foreword by Luciano Floridi -- Preface to the third edition -- Acknowledgments -- Central issues in the ethics of digital media -- Privacy in the (post-)digital era? -- Copying, copyleft and distributing via digital media: copyright, copyleft, global perspectives -- Friendship, death online, slow/fair technology, and democracy -- Still more ethical issues: digital sex, sexbots and games -- Digital media ethics: overview, frameworks, resources -- References -- Index.
Course: JOUR302

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English Book (4/F) 302.231 ESS 2020 Available