Media Challenges to Digital Flourishing

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-89208-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

This book engages broadly with the impacts of media practices on our prospects for thriving as moral beings in today’s digital spaces. It brings together senior and junior scholars in communication and philosophy originally convened for a symposium on the theme of Media Challenges to Digital Flourishing. Using perspectives ranging from virtue ethics and media sociology to care ethics and moral psychology, the authors anticipate and analyze cutting-edge ethical issues at the nexus of media and technology.

Topics covered include the moral standing of artificial intelligence, the characteristics of virtues and moral exemplars in digital spaces, the prospects for moral autonomy under the terms of surveillance capitalism, and the obligation of media ethicists to proactively flag emerging ethical problems. In short, this book attempts to identify and address the impacts of digital media practices on our prospects for thriving as moral beings in terms of both the virtuous and the virtual.

This interdisciplinary volume is a helpful resource for students and scholars of media, communication, journalism, technology, moral psychology and ethics, as well as practitioners and policy makers with related interests. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Media Ethics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borden, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Duty Now and for the Future: Communication, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence  2. Civil Deliberation Unpacked: An Empirical Investigation  3. Virtual Virtue? Opportunities and Challenges in Explicating Intellectual Virtues Through Journalistic Exemplars in the Digital Network  4. Reclaiming Media: Answering Surveillance Capitalists with Care-Based Democracy  5. The Problem with Apu: Recognizing Moral Issues in Media Ethics  6. Autonomy in Local Digital News: An Exploration of Organizational and Moral Psychology Factors

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra L. Borden is professor of communication and director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University. Her books include the award-winning Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press (2007, Ashgate; 2009, Routledge) and The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty (2022).