Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice

Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice

Rocci Luppicini

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 379

ISBN13: 9781466629318|ISBN10: 1466629312|EISBN13: 9781466629325

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2931-8

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Luppicini, Rocci, ed. Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2931-8

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Our social, educational, professional, and political ethics play a significant role in every aspect of our life. As technology continues to influence our society, these principles needs to be valued.

Moral, Ethical, and Social Dilemmas in the Age of Technology: Theories and Practice highlights the innovations and developments in the ethical features of technology in society. This comprehensive collection brings together research in the areas of computer, engineering, and biotechnical ethics. These theoretical studies and innovative methodologies are essential for researchers, practitioners and philosophers.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1

Virtue and Virtuality: Technoethics, IT and the Masters of the Future (pages 1-18)

Miles Kennedy

This paper is an attempt to establish a foundation for technoethics of IT that makes an account of the virtual environment based within the lived situation of those who work and dwell in that emerging realm. The most important...

Chapter 2

Internet History (pages 19-39)

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

This paper outlines and analyzes milestones in the history of the Internet. As technology advances, it presents new societal and ethical challenges. The early Internet was devised and implemented in American research units...

Chapter 3

Laboring in Cyberspace: A Lockean Theory of Property in Virtual Worlds (pages 40-52)

Marcus Schulzke

This paper examines property relations in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) through the lens of John Locke’s theory of property. It argues that Locke’s understanding of the common must be modified to reflect the differences...

Chapter 4

Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures in Enhancing Democratic Institutions (pages 53-69)

Tommaso Bertolotti, Emanuele Bardone, Lorenzo Magnani

This paper analyzes the impact of new technologies on a range of practices related to activism. The first section shows how the functioning of democratic institutions can be impaired by scarce political accountability connected with...

Chapter 5

On the Moral Equality of Artificial Agents (pages 70-78)

Christopher Wareham

Artificial agents such as robots are performing increasingly significant ethical roles in society. As a result, there is a growing literature regarding their moral status with many suggesting it is justified to regard manufactured...

Ethical Dilemmas of Technoselves in a Technosociety

Chapter 6

Biometrics: An Overview on New Technologies and Ethic Problems (pages 80-94)

Halim Sayoud

The term biometrics is derived from the Greek words: bio (life) and metrics (to measure). “Biometric technologies” are defined as automated methods of verifying or recognizing the identity of a living person based on a physiological...

Chapter 7

On Biometrics and Profiling: A Challenge for Privacy and Democracy? (pages 95-105)

Daniele Cantore

This paper advances an analysis of biometrics and profiling. Biometrics represents the most effective technology in order to prove someone’s identity. Profiling regards the capability of collecting and organizing individuals’...

Chapter 8

Cellular Telephones and Social Interactions: Evidence of Interpersonal Surveillance (pages 106-111)

Steven E. Stern, Benjamin E. Grounds

Changes in technology often affect patterns of social interaction. In the current study, the authors examined how cellular telephones have made it possible for members of romantically involved couples to keep track of each other. The...

Chapter 9

Socio-Technical Influences of Cyber Espionage: A Case Study of the GhostNet System (pages 112-124)

Xue Lin, Rocci Luppicini

Technoethical inquiry deals with a variety of social, legal, cultural, economic, political, and ethical implications of new technological applications which can threaten important aspects of contemporary life and society. GhostNet is...

Chapter 10

The Impact of Context on Employee Perceptions of Acceptable Non-Work Related Computing (pages 125-139)

Troy J. Strader, J. Royce Fichtner, Suzanne R. Clayton, Lou Ann Simpson

Employees have access to a wide range of computer-related resources at work, and often these resources are used for non-work related personal activities. In this study, the authors address the relationship between employee’s...

Chapter 11

Chicken Killers or Bandwidth Patriots?: A Case Study of Ethics in Virtual Reality (pages 140-160)

Kurt Reymers

In 2008, a resident of a computerized virtual world called “Second Life” programmed and began selling a “realistic” virtual chicken. It required food and water to survive, was vulnerable to physical damage, and could reproduce. This...

Morality and Techno-Mediated Violence

Chapter 12

Structural and Technology-Mediated Violence: Profiling and the Urgent Need of New Tutelary Technoknowledge (pages 162-181)

Lorenzo Magnani

A kind of common prejudice is the one that tends to assign the attribute “violent” only to physical and possibly bloody acts – homicides, for example – or physical injuries; but linguistic, structural, and other various aspects of...

Chapter 13

Fairness and Regulation of Violence in Technological Design (pages 182-197)

Cameron Shelley

The purpose of this article is to explore how the design of technology relates to the fairness of the distribution of violence in modern society. Deliberately or not, the design of technological artifacts embodies the priorities of...

Chapter 14

Unintended Affordances as Violent Mediators: Maladaptive Effects of Technologically Enriched Human Niches (pages 198-214)

Emanuele Bardone

This paper outlines a theoretical framework meant to help people understand the emergence of violent mediators in human cognitive niches enriched by technology. Violent mediators are external objects that mediate relations with the...

Chapter 15

Infosphere to Ethosphere: Moral Mediators in the Nonviolent Transformation of Self and World (pages 215-233)

Jeffrey Benjamin White

This paper reviews the complex, overlapping ideas of two prominent Italian philosophers, Lorenzo Magnani and Luciano Floridi, with the aim of facilitating the nonviolent transformation of self and world, and with a focus on...

Chapter 16

Facebook Has It: The Irresistible Violence of Social Cognition in the Age of Social Networking (pages 234-247)

Tommaso Bertolotti

Over the past years, mass media increasingly identified many aspects of social networking with those of established social practices such as gossip. This produced two main outcomes: on the one hand, social networks users were...

Current Trends and Applications in Technoethics

Chapter 17

Technoethics and the State of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Canada (pages 249-263)

Rocci Luppicini

University degree programs in STS (Science and Technology Studies) represent a popular training ground for scholars and other professions dealing with advanced studies in science and technology. Degree programs in STS are currently...

Chapter 18

College Students, Piracy, and Ethics: Is there a Teachable Moment? (pages 264-280)

Jeffrey Reiss, Rosa Cintrón

This study explores the nature of piracy prevention tools used by IT departments in the Florida State University System to determine their relative effectiveness. The study also examines the opinions of the Information Security...

Chapter 19

Boys with Toys and Fearful Parents?: The Pedagogical Dimensions of the Discourse in Technology Ethics (pages 281-290)

Albrecht Fritzsche

Based on recent complaints about the neglect of the human in the philosophy of technology, this paper explores the different ways how technology ethics put the relation between the human and the technical on stage. It identifies...

Chapter 20

Without Informed Consent (pages 291-305)

Sara Belfrage

The requirement of always obtaining participants’ informed consent in research with human subjects cannot always be met, for a variety of reasons. This paper describes and categorises research situations where informed consent is...

Chapter 21

The Middle Ground for Nuclear Waste Management: Social and Ethical Aspects of Shallow Storage (pages 306-318)

Alan Marshall

The 2001 terrorist attacks in the USA and the 2011 seismic events in Japan have brought into sharp relief the vulnerabilities involved in storing nuclear waste on the land’s surface. Nuclear engineers and waste managers are deciding...

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