Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures

To better understand such technologies' impact on ethics and sustainability, this book situates digital technologies within a cultural context, arguing that the technology is received differently in different cultural contexts.

Table des matières

1. Ethics and sustainability in digital cultures: A prolegomena Part I: Practicing Ethics and Sustainability in Digital Cultures 2. Artificial intelligence and the sustainability of thinking: How AI may destroy us, or help us 3. What is the problem to which AI chatbots are the solution? AI ethics through Don Ihde's embodiment, hermeneutic, alterity, and background relationships 4. A dumb spy? Ethical aspects of voice assistant technologies 5. Truth and reality in the digital lifeworld: Departure from reductionism 6. Telework for a sustainable society: Lessons from the remote work boom during the COVID-19 epidemic in Japan 7. The ethics of body modification: Transhumanism in Japan Part II: Creating Ethical and Sustainable Digital Cultures 8. The ascent of memetic movements: Social media, Levinasian ethics and the global spread of Q-anon conspiracy theories 9. Cultural frictions in the ethics of smartphone games: The example of Pokémon GO in Japan and Poland 10. From strangers to neighbours: How the sharing economy can help building and maintaining local communities 11. How does the digitally driven sharing economy promote cultural sustainability? The case of a musical instrument-sharing business in Japan 12. A block in the chain of sustainability? On blockchain technology and its economic, social, and environmental impact 13. Using bits to consume less - consuming less when using bits: A European perspective

A propos de l'auteur

Thomas Taro Lennerfors is Professor and Head of the Division of Industrial Engineering and Management at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Kiyoshi Murata is Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics and Professor of MIS at the School of Commerce, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Thomas Taro (Uppsala University Lennerfors
• Collaboration: Thomas Taro Lennerfors (Editeur), Kiyoshi Murata (Editeur)
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032434667
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243466-7
• Pages: 274
• Thème: Routledge Series on Digital Spaces
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, computer science, The environment, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Legal aspects of IT, Human Geography, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects