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Chapter 1: Central Issues in the Ethics of Digital Media - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 1: Central Issues in the Ethics of Digital Media
Case study - Facebook and Beacon
Backlash after purchases visible to fb friends
Introduction
Moral panics
Click bait
Fear of new technologies expressed since Mary Shelley´s Frankestein
New technologies corrupting us?
Discussion cannot be about deciding whether the technology is good or bad. That is misleading and hinders the discussion.
Mostly topics around sex and violence
(Ethical) life in the digital age?
New media are a form of communication that is build on past ways of relaying information.
Does is therefore need new ways how to approach it´s ethical side or can the previous one can be reused?
Digital media, analogue media, and convergence
Digital copy takes apart the original, describes it and a player can based on these instructions mimic the original
By nature infinitely variable
Inevitable loss of information in the process
Dependent on the same medium first copy was made. Otherwise massive loss of information.
Analogue copy copies the original as close as possible given the limits of it´s technology and then replays it. Loosing quality in every technological part of the process.
Stays the same once digitalized
Convergence not only of media types but accompanyning ethical issues too
Commonly shared digital form (a photo can be the same quality on a phone, computer etc.)
Digital media and "greased information"
Greased meaning digitalized information being possible to share very fast
Digital media as communication media: global scope and interactivity
Allows us to interact easily accros distances and social structures
Interactivity - digitalized content can be changed easily
Cosmopolitanism - information shared by us needs to be considered from all global cultures aspects
Digital media ethics: how to proceed?
Historically the individual held resposibility for shared content. Nowadays do we need to consider the carriers to share in the responsibility/blame?
Is digital media ethics possible? Grounds for hope.
As internet is global it is difficult to set a common set of ethical guidelines that reflect cultural specifics of various nations
How to do ethics in the new mediascape: Dialogical approaches, difference, and pluralism
Ethical monism/absolutism - when discussing ethical questions across cultures we cannot view the dilemma as one side being right and the other wrong
Relativism - the view that specific cultural ethics are right in their culture´s enviroment therefore accepting all views as legitimate
Pluralism - The basis of all norms is shared
Discussion is key
Doing ethics: further considerations
Subconcious understanding of ethics can hinder our ethical reflection in ethics discussions
Top-down to bottom-up dilemma - when considering our particular case how do we trace the situation to a superior principle?
Phronesis - practical judgment (Aristotle) - is earned by years of experience buta useful way to learn to self reflect on one´s choises