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A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication Onora O'Neill

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication By Onora O'Neill

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication by Onora O'Neill


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Onora O'Neill shows how digital technologies have raised new ethical issues for communication, and argues that ethical communication requires broad attention, not only to rights of freedom of expression, but also to the agency, duties and needs of audiences.

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication Summary

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication by Onora O'Neill

Communication is complicated, and so is the ethics of communication. We communicate about innumerable topics, to varied audiences, using a gamut of technologies. The ethics of communication, therefore, has to address a wide range of technical, ethical and epistemic requirements. In this book, Onora O'Neill shows how digital technologies have made communication more demanding: they can support communication with huge numbers of distant and dispersed recipients; they can amplify or suppress selected content; and they can target or ignore selected audiences. Often this is done anonymously, making it harder for readers and listeners, viewers and browsers, to assess which claims are true or false, reliable or misleading, flaky or fake. So how can we empower users to assess and evaluate digital communication, so that they can tell which standards it meets and which it flouts? That is the challenge which this book explores.

A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication Reviews

'This book tackles one of the most crucial ethical issues facing us in the age of online communication and digital information. It is clear, concise and yet deep and insightful.' Maria Baghramian, University College Dublin
' this book is an important and original contribution to the ethics of digital communication. It is definitely worth reading, especially for those working on the ethics of technology and the digital public sphere.' Ugur Aytac, Metascience

About Onora O'Neill

Onora O'Neill is Honorary Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is the author of numerous books on Kant, ethics and political philosophy, including Justice Across Boundaries (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Table of Contents

Part I. Complex Communication: 1. Presuppositions of Communication; 2. Acts and Content, Norms and Harms; 3. Communication and New Technologies; 4. Digital Hopes; Part II. Norms and Standards in a Connected World: 5. Duties and Rights 1: Freedom of Expression; 6. Duties and Rights 2: Rights to Privacy; Part III. Politics and Connectivity: 7. Power and Anonymity.

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NGR9781108986816
9781108986816
1108986811
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication by Onora O'Neill
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2022-02-10
150
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