Digital Media Ethics

The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover current research and scholarship, and recent developments and technological changes. It also benefits from extensively updated case-studies and pedagogical material, including examples of "watershed" events such as privacy policy developments on Facebook and Google+ in relation to ongoing changes in privacy law in the US, the EU, and Asia. New for the second edition is a section on "citizen journalism" and its implications for traditional journalistic ethics. With a significantly updated section on the "ethical toolkit," this book also introduces students to prevailing ethical theories and illustrates how they are applied to central issues such as privacy, copyright, pornography and violence, and the ethics of cross-cultural communication online. Digital Media Ethics is student- and classroom-friendly: each topic and theory is interwoven throughout the volume with detailed sets of questions, additional resources, and suggestions for further research and writing. Together, these enable readers to foster careful reflection upon, writing about, and discussion of these issues and their possible resolutions. Cover......Page 2 Half Title......Page 3 TitlePage......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Foreword by Luciano Floridi......Page 9 Preface to the Second Edition......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Chapter Synopses......Page 16 1 Central Issues in the Ethics of Digital Media......Page 18 2 Privacy in the Electronic Global Metropolis?......Page 38 3 Copying and Distributing via Digital Media: Copyright, Copyleft, Global Perspectives......Page 67 4 Friendship, Democracy, and Citizen Journalism......Page 89 5 Still More Ethical Issues: Digital Sex and Games......Page 112 6 Digital Media Ethics: Overview, Frameworks, Resources......Page 136 Glossary......Page 175 References......Page 177 Index......Page 188 This is the first textbook on the central ethical issues of digital media, ranging from computers and the Internet to mobile phones. It is also the first book of its kind to consider these issues from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple cultures. It further utilizes examples from around the world, such as the publication of ""the Mohammed Cartoons""; diverse understandings of what ""privacy"" means in Facebook or MySpace; why pirating CDs and DVDs may be justified in developing countries; and culturally-variable perspectives on sexuality and what counts as ""pornog