Understanding Digital Ethics

<p>Rapid changes in technology and the growing use of electronic media signal a need for understanding both clear and subtle ethical and social implications of the digital and of specific digital technologies. <i>Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts </i>is the first book to offer a philosophically grounded examination of digital ethics and its moral implications. Divided into three clear parts the authors discuss and explain the following key topics:</p><p>• Becoming literate in digital ethics</p><p>• Moral viewpoints in digital contexts</p><p>• Motivating action in digital ethics</p><p>• Speed and scope of digital information</p><p>• Moral algorithms and ethical machines</p><p>• The digital and the human</p><p>• Digital relations and empathy machines</p><p>• Agents autonomy and action</p><p>• Digital and ethical activism.</p><p>The book includes cases and examples that explore the ethical implications of digital hardware and software including videogames social media platforms autonomous vehicles robots voice-enabled personal assistants smartphones artificially intelligent chatbots military drones and more.</p><p>Understanding Digital Ethics is 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.</p>