Social Media and Morality - Losing Our Self Control

Informationen zum Autor Lisa S. Nelson is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and is a former appointee with the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Professor Nelson is a National Science Foundation award recipient, a MacArthur grant recipient, and is the author of America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society (2011). Klappentext This book explains the mediating effects of social media on our morality. Zusammenfassung This book is intended for anyone seeking to understand the moral significance of social media and provides an explanation of how our current legal and policy approach is lacking and in need of modification. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The political significance of social media and the limits of our understanding; 3. The moral significance of social networking technologies; 4. Why we do what we do; 5. Time consciousness and the specious present of social media; 6. Pretty is as pretty does; 7. Revealing the moral self in the context of us; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa S. Nelson, Lisa S. (University of Pittsburgh) Nelson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781316616574
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61657-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state