Understanding Digital Ethics : Cases and Contexts.

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 -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- Chapter 3 Motivating Action in Digital Ethics -- Moral Motivation -- Reasoning to Action -- A Virtue Ethics Approach to the Problem of Motivation -- Avoiding Amotivation -- Next Up -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- 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 -- Next Up -- References -- Conclusion: Digital and Moral Literacies -- Living in (Digital) Communities -- Case Studies and Argumentation -- Future Work -- Understanding Digital Ethics -- References -- Appendix: Developing Cases in Digital Ethics -- Index.

The first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. 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.

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