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This book discusses key ethical and deontological problems concerning the use of the most common information and communication devices. It focuses on the challenges of the new environments we now find ourselves in thanks to these technologies, and the issues arising from the newly established relationship between the virtual sphere and the real world.
Each aspect is analysed by starting from a very specific example or a case study presenting a dilemma that can only be resolved by making a reasoned ethical choice. Rather than thematically addressing only one of the many aspects mentioned above (for example, computer ethics or social network ethics), the book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and a co-ordinated overview of, the various deontological and ethical issues regarding the spread of the most common information and communication technologies.
List of contents
Basic Concepts.- The Ethics of Communication Devices.- The Ethics of Communication Environments.
About the author
Adriano Fabris is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He also teaches Ethics of Communication, serving as Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Communication at the same University. President of the Consulta Nazionale di Filosofia, and member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Golinelli, he is also co-supervisor of the Project "Legal and Ethical Design of Trustworthy AI Systems" of the Fondazione FAIR, Pisa. Adriano Fabris serves as Director of the research Institute ReTe (Religions and Theology) of the University of Lugano (USI), at the Faculty of Theology, Switzerland, where he is promoting research on interreligious dialogue and on digital religions. There, he is also responsible of an international online master's degree in "Science, Philosophy and Theology of Religions". Among his publications: Ethics of Information and Communication Technology (Springer, Cham 2018); and Trust. A Philosophical Approach (ed., Springer, Cham 2020).
Summary
This book discusses key ethical and deontological problems concerning the use of the most common information and communication devices. It focuses on the challenges of the new environments we now find ourselves in thanks to these technologies, and the issues arising from the newly established relationship between the virtual sphere and the real world.
Each aspect is analysed by starting from a very specific example or a case study presenting a dilemma that can only be resolved by making a reasoned ethical choice. Rather than thematically addressing only one of the many aspects mentioned above (for example, computer ethics or social network ethics), the book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and a co-ordinated overview of, the various deontological and ethical issues regarding the spread of the most common information and communication technologies.
