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Central Issues in the Ethics of Digital Media, DM = digital media - Coggle…
Central Issues in the Ethics of Digital Media
distinguishing features of digital media
Convergence = merging of technology and media forms
DM as "Greased information"
Information is faster, with less control
More privacy risks, easier to copy, redistribute
Ethical issues
Loss of contextual control
Difficulty of “undoing” harm
Global interactivity - worldwide connection
Easy to: copy, store, distribute, communicate...
From one-to-many to many-to-many
Challenges
Cross-cultural misunderstanding
Case-study
Facebook Beacon
Ethical problems:
Lack of informed consent
Opt-out instead of opt-in
Users unaware of data distribution
Questions about
Control of personal data
Transparency of digital platforms
Reflection
How have ethics changed across generations?
Responsibility of users vs. responsibility of platforms
Anonymity vs. face-to-face
Does online community lead us to good or bad?
Introduction
DM introduced to society as:
The in-your-face headlines with negative effects of DM
something unknown --> moral panic
Narratives
Technologies are good
Tehcnologies are bad
Problem
Oversimplified "either/or" thinking
Life in the digital age
New challanges in DM - ethics
Do we really need a (new) DM ethics?
increased vulnerability --> increased responsibility
The need for a systematic ethical reflection
learning through experience
How to proceed?
Complications
Cultural diversity
Western individual responsibility
Others' collective responsibility
Global networks
ethical suggestion
Shared responsibility
Cooperation between humans, systems, institutions
Is DM ethics possible?
DM ethics sould be new for new technologies
DM connected to our offline, so ethics should be just modified
Etthical absolutism
Traditional either/or. There is only one right option.
Relativism
There is neither right nor wrong option
Dialogical process
critical thinking
listening and acception of differences
based on interpretations making decisions
DM = digital media