Controversies in Digital Ethics

• Utgivningsdatum: 2016-04-07
• Mått: 154 x 232 x 26 mm
• Vikt: 700 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 392
• Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• ISBN: 9781501310560

• Informationsteknik: allmänt
• Medievetenskap
• Etiska frågor och debatter

Amber Davisson is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Keene State College, USA. She is the author of Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture (2013). Her research on political communication in digital spaces has appeared in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of Media & Digital Literacy, Journal of Visual Literacy, and the American Communication Journal.Paul Booth is a Professor of Communication at DePaul University, USA. He is the author of Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (2010), Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (2012), Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age (2015) and Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Bloomsbury, 2015). He is the editor of Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).

Controversies in Digital Ethics addresses the complex issues raised by the intrusion of digital technologies in our private lives and public spaces, ranging from interpersonal relationships to professional interactions to mass entertainment. As technology alters media, we must continue to interrogate our ethical frameworks for evaluating its impact on our lives, adjusting the traditional ethical models to meet new challenges from creep shots to digital hactivism to game design and social robots. Traditional ethical models for understanding communication have lagged behind the rapid evolution of media formats that affect a broad variety of fields from journalism, advertising, and public relations to politics, crowd-sourcing, and entertainment. This volume raises complex questions that underscore moral decisions, aiding producers and consumers of digital technologies to evaluate mediated messages through a series of case studies. It also recognizes the shifting power dynamic as consumers become producers of media in a world that is being rapidly transformed by participatory knowledge. As we find ourselves in situations that we could not have anticipated even a few years ago, we simultaneously confront controversies that are generated with the increased capacity to create, process, and distribute media. These essays illuminate the intersections where innovations challenge behaviors, asking the reader to reflect on the struggle to arrive at new guidelines for behavior from these quandaries.

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