Digital Ethics

This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society series presents foundations and applications of digital ethics based on Critical Theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of digital technology.

Auteur

Christian Fuchs is Chair Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University. His fields of expertise are critical digital & social media studies, Internet & society, the political economy of media and communication, information society theory, social theory, and critical theory. He is the author of numerous publications in these fields.

Contenu

I. Foundations 1. What is Digital Ethics? 2. Foundations of Communication/Media/Digital (In)Justice 3. The Ethics of the Digital Commons II. Applications 4. Information Ethics in the Age of Digital Labour and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex 5. "Dear Mr. Neo-Nazi, Can You Please Give Me Your Informed Consent So That I Can Quote Your Fascist Tweet?": Questions of Social Media Research Ethics in Online Ideology Critique 6. Towards an Alternative Concept of Privacy 7. The Ethics and Political Economy of Privacy on Facebook 8. Information Technology and Sustainability in the Information Society 9. Theoretical Foundations of Defining the Participatory, Co-operative, Sustainable Information Society (PCSIS) III. Conclusion 10. The Digital Commons and the Digital Public Sphere: How to Advance Digital Democracy Today