Cyberethics in the Googling Age

Whittier, David

doi:10.1177/002205740718700202

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“…A strong emphasis on the law and computers was challenged earlier by a number of authors, on the basis that cyber-laws would be too restrictive, difficult to regulate and would hamper information-related creativity within the communication and media industries (see Boyle 1996;Lessig 1999;Chadwick 2001;Patterson and Wilkins 2002;Kiernan 2002). It is only during recent years that the human rights aspect of using computer technology for internet exchanges has become more pertinent, especially with the increase of digital media-use for private and public functions (see Woodbury 2003;Tavani 2004;Spinello and Tavani 2004;Whittier 2006). The gradual shift to a greater focus on cyber-laws to protect users rather than agents of technological developments, shows that there is a need for a more socially responsible approach to what is done in cyberspace.…”

Section: Part 2 -Social Responsibility Within Cyberspace: Cyber-law Amentioning

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‘Dark technology’, aggressiveness and the question of cyber-ethics

Mbinjama

Olivier

2020

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We live in a thoroughly technocratic culture (Castells 2010; Germain 2017). 'Technocratic' means literally 'the rule of technology', and as Heidegger demonstrated in his forceful essay, "The Question Concerning Technology" (1977), our era is marked by this. It assumes many guises, of course, and although Heidegger was thinking of industrial technology, such as, among other things, factories spewing black smoke into a once pristine atmosphere, what may seem to be the innocuous and 'clean' technology of computers, iPads and smartphones, turns out, on closer inspection, to be far less so. Some years ago there was a keynote address at a communications theory conference (IAMCR, June 2013) in Dublin, Ireland, presented by Professor Richard Maxwell, of Queens College, New York. He disabused his audience of the idea that the laptops and smartphones we use are 'clean' technology. The materials and industrial processes that are involved in manufacturing these, he said, amount to the equivalent of approximately 800 000 cars' carbon emissions per annum. But this 'materialist' perspective is not the only one to reveal a downside to our precious communications technology, the mainstay of which is the internet. Arguably, the social effects it has on human lives are even more deleterious. Granted, technology is a pharmakon-poison and cure-so we do not dispute its usefulness as a tool; in fact, without our laptops we could not write this paper, nor write up any research. But most people seem to be blind to its 'poisonous' character, which has to be kept firmly in mind if one wishes to live a fairly balanced life. This poisonous, or 'dark', aspect of communications technology, or broadly, of connectivity-which one knows all too well from the phenomenon known as 'trolling' (let alone 'cyber-crime'; see Gross 2018) on various internet sites (Moreau 2019)-is strikingly thematised in Henry Alex Rubin's critically acclaimed film, Disconnect (Rubin 2012). The film's title can be read as both a descriptive term pertaining to the almost pathological situation of 'connectivity overload' and 'performance exhaustion' among (especially young) people in a so-called

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Section: Part 2 -Social Responsibility Within Cyberspace: Cyber-law Amentioning

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‘Dark technology’, aggressiveness and the question of cyber-ethics

Mbinjama

Olivier

2020

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“…Whittier explained that in the context of application on the Internet, ethics are the ethical rule for the users of the computer world [9]. In an earlier research, ethical is referred as being computer ethical.…”

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Ethical issues in the use of information and communication technology in Malaysian primary schools

Masrom

Mahmood

Zainon

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research

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Despite the advances in technology and increase of internet usage which provide numerous benefits to mankind, little is known about the problems and related issues such as the ethical issues and behavior of using the internet. Hence, it is crucial for researchers to study on the ethical issues relating to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper extends prior researches by investigating and exploring the use of ICT and ethical issues in Malaysian primary school. This study relates with four ICT issues proposed byMason: privacy, accuracy, property and accessibility (known as the PAPA model). In this study, the quantitative methodology has been adopted by distributing questionnaires among students. The results indicated that the students are able to comprehend the ethical issues in the use of ICT.

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Educational Media and Technology Yearbook

Orey¹,

Branch²

2009

Educational Media and Technology Yearbook

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In this chapter, we describe our research and development efforts relating to eliciting, representing, and analyzing how individuals and small groups conceptualize complex problems. The methods described herein have all been developed and are in various states of being validated. In addition, the methods we describe have been automated and most have been integrated in an online model-based set of tools called HIMATT (Highly Interactive Model-based Assessment Tools and Technologies; available for research purposes at http://himatt.ezw.uni-freiburg.de/cgi-bin/hrun/himatt.pl and soon to be available on a server at Florida State University). HIMATT continues to expand in terms of the tools and technologies included. Our methods and tools represent an approach to learning and instruction that is now embedded in many of the graduate courses at Florida State University and also at the University of Freiburg. We call our approach model-based because it integrates representations of mental models and internal cognitive processes with tools that are used to (a) assess progress of learning, and (b) provide the basis for informative and reflective feedback during instruction.

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Cyberethics in the Googling Age

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

‘Dark technology’, aggressiveness and the question of cyber-ethics

‘Dark technology’, aggressiveness and the question of cyber-ethics

Ethical issues in the use of information and communication technology in Malaysian primary schools

Educational Media and Technology Yearbook

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