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Ethical Issues for Digital Education: EDTC 6101 Module 1 (James (read…
Ethical Issues for Digital Education: EDTC 6101 Module 1
Ticona/Wellmon (read counter-clockwise)
Power of social media medium
Internet facilitates
dominant domains
business/government
“transparency serves capitalism” (66)
Information revolutions
have pros/cons (mostly my associations)
Socrates
reading
Sophistry
printing press
Bible
pamphlet
Enlightenment / Industrial Revolution
newspaper
pamphlet
Internet
big data
social media
Internet and Postmodernity
power of emotion
reality = individual
"giddy" and "nonchalant" (60)
collapse of metanarrative
New Determinism
illusion of "self can be fashioned individually" (69)
"radically determined and radically free" (60)
User findings
"loss of agency" (64)
apps replace personal skills
10/16 class
addiction
dopamine
guilt, contempt
ubiquitous/inescapable (61)
digital vs real self (66)
confusion
digital drives
unwilling to change (61)
Issues identified
transparency / privacy false dichotomy (66)
lack of boundaries
blind to incapacities
“technologies constitute what it is to be human” (68)
postmodern illusion of self-determinism enhanced (69)
Solutions
awareness of how internet capitalism obtains and uses private info
consider impact of our individual actions
James (read clockwise)
Heightened impact:
invaded privacy
hate speech
plagiarism
Ways of thinking
Excuses
"creative"
only "thoughtless"
"true"
Blind spots / Disconnects
facilitated by medium
Bazerman and Tenbrunsel: bounded ethicality
Broader mindset
property
participation
privacy
Framework (12)
self
consequence thinking
known others
moral thinking
distant others
ethical thinking
roles, responsibilities
complex perspectives
applies to college administration
community thinking
Rest's framework: additional categories
motivation
character
sensitivity
Issue
social context but self-focused ethics
developmental theories relevant
see "Blind spots"
apply to original examples
blind spots
"self willed" blindspots
facilitated by ease of use
Positive aspects of web
prosocial
civic
Methods
qualitative interviews
Harvard study (p17)
2 2-hr interviews
143 respondents
rapport
Definitions
neighborly morality
Golden Rule
"micro morality" (Rest)
limited guide
ethics of roles (Gardner)
attached to role
impartiality
relates to internet communication
permanence
norms
macromorality (Rest)
ethical disposition
long term impact
disparate impact
Being Digital
positive
form relationships
build community
build intelligence
changes thinking
Carr
scattered
shallow
Lanier
Gardner/Davis
app dependence
diminished creativity
relational capacity
affordances of internet
scalability
openness
civic participation
collaboration
permanence
replicability
search ability
persistence
constant connectivity
weakens relationships
diminishes autonomy
influences sense of time
distance
disinhibition
cognitive overload
impaired decision making
dilemmas: due to affordances' pros/cons
broader cultural values
"cheating culture"
unable to identify moral dilemmas
narcissism
utilitarian
moral individualism
excuses
failure of adults
sociological causes
Solutions
See Ch5
Caveats
critical perspective
no policy analysis
Floridi
history = language = information/recording system
19th century scientific "revolutions"
except Copernicus earlier
introvert / extrovert
introvert
understanding universe
extrovert
understanding man
three revolutions
Copernicus
man not center :
Copernicus
man not unique
Darwin
man not fully rational
Freud
Freud's idea
fourth revolution
representative
Turing
similar to experience of Scientific Revoltuion that validated Englightenment philosophy on experiential/affective level
"inforgs" (9)
man is node not agent
"informational organisms"
change in understanding of reality
postmodern worldview and information experience reinforce each other
not new machines but new interfaces
shared informational environment
not merely re-organizing but "re-ontologizing"
is this influence more powerful than that of the 18th c Scientific Revolution in re-ontologizing?
spatial metaphors
gateway
etc
online
future radical disconnect / status gap if humans deprived of info world
no longer "materialist" metaphysics
(but still "naturalistic"?)
or not?
Gnostic or Platonic view of reality
related to the idea of change vs permanence
things are clonable / interchangeable
dephysicalized
right to usage replacing right to ownership
MMORPG commerce (13)
arenas
computer science
ITCs (Info and Com Technologies)
information lifecycle
occurrence
transmission
processing/managment
usage
exponential increase
ICTs
70% GDP intangible
challenge to Marx's definition of labor?
software = "digital good" (13)
zettabyte era
hypothetical
benefits
standard of living
"knowledge"
risks
lost equity
epistemology
technology
ethics
globalization
analogy: branches vs shallow roots
typical technology issue
example: identity theft opportunities
Solutions
identify and anticipate problems
understand information age
create "ecology" (18)
Life in "infosphere"
types vs objects
everything replaceable
including humans
began with Industrial Revolution manufacturing
erosion of identity
anonymous online entities
needing "branding"
avatars
contradictions
privacy rights vs Facebook use
anonymity vs branding
informatization of artifacts and social environments (16)
online/offline distinction will disappear
more and more "smart" objects
microchips
e.g. car GPS
Does the "Anti-Newtonian" idea hold up? (17)
"animation" of world
similar to pre technological "animism"
"reconceptualization of metaphysics in informational terms" (17)
interpretation of world in informational terms
info sphere = reality
aspects
delocalized
correlated
synchronized
KEY
yellow = parallel change in worldview and technological world/experience