Controversies in Digital Ethics

Controversies in Digital Ethics explores ethical frameworks within digital culture. Through a combination of theoretical examination and specific case studies, the essays in this volume provide a vigorous examination of ethics in a highly individualistic and mediated world. Focusing on specific controversies-privacy, surveillance, identity politics, participatory culture-the authors in this volume provide a roadmap for navigating the thorny ethical issues in new media.

Paul Booth and Amber Davisson bring together multiple writers working from different theoretical traditions to represent the multiplicity of ethics in the 21st century. Each essay has been chosen to focus on a particular issue in contemporary ethical thinking in order to both facilitate classroom discussion and further scholarship in digital media ethics. Accessible for students, but with a robust analysis providing contemporary scholarship in media ethics, this collection unites theory, case studies, and practice within one volume.

Amber Davisson is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Keene State College, USA. She is the author of Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture(2013). Her research on political communication in digital spaces has appeared in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of Media & Digital Literacy, Journal of Visual Literacy, and the American Communication Journal.

Paul Booth is an Associate Professor at DePaul University, USA. He is the author of Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (2010), Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (2012), Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age (2015) and Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Bloomsbury, 2015). He is the editor of Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).

Introduction, Amber Davisson & Paul Booth (DePaul University, USA)

SECTION 1: SEEKING PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE

Chapter 1 - The Changing Efficacy of Notice and Consent in Protecting Privacy (J.J. Sylvia, North Carolina State University, USA)

Chapter 2 - "The Classroom Is NOT a Sacred Space:" Revisiting Citizen Journalism and Surveillance in the Digital Classroom (Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner University, USA, and Ryan J. Thomas, University of Missouri School of Journalism, USA)

Chapter 3 - Julian Assange's Confidentiality Agreement: Freedom and Irony in the Ethics of Information (Ryan Gillespie, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, USA)

Chapter 4 - Passing Around Women's Bodies Online: Sex, Power, and Privacy on Reddit (Amber Davisson, DePaul University, USA)

SECTION 2: PARTICIPATORY CULTURE

Chapter 5 - "Making and Hacking": The Politics of Distributed Ethics (Shenja van der Graaf, iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Chapter 6 - Just War Craft (Tom Bivins & Matthew Pittman, University of Oregon, USA)

Chapter 7 - Between Ethics, Fandom and Social Media: New Trajectories that Challenge Media Producer/Fan Relations (Lucy Bennett & Bertha Chin, Cardiff University, UK, and Bethan Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK)

Chapter 8 - Scam Advertising in the Digital Age: Creative Reputation Building or Industry Irresponsibility? (Michelle Amazeen & Susan O'Sullivan-Gavin, Rider University, USA)

Chapter 9 - Steve Jobs is Dead: iReport & The Ethos of Citizen Journalism (Shane Tilton, Ohio Northern University, USA)

SECTION 3: PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Chapter 10 - Perfectly "Compliant": The Devaluation of Ethics and Empathy in Marketing/Communications Industry Discourse (Sam Ford, Western Kentucky University, USA)

Chapter 11 - The Emerging Ethics of Online Political Strategists (Luis Hestres, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Chapter 12 - Cash Out: Philanthropy, Sustainability and Ethics in Nonprofit News (Joe Cutbirth, Manhattan College Center for Ethics, USA)

Chapter 13 - Ethical Issues in News Media Coverage of Transgender People (Susan Wildermuth, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)

Chapter 14 - The Harm of Video Games: The Ethics Behind Regulating Minors' Access to Violent Video Games in Light of the Supreme Court Ruling (Ryan Rogers, Marist College, USA)

SECTION 4: IDENTITY IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Chapter 15 - Paradigm Shift: Media Ethics in the Age of Intelligent Machines (David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University, USA)

Chapter 16 - Mad Men and Race: The Possibility of Empathetic Identification through Fan Discourse (Sarah Nilsen, University of Vermont, USA)

Chapter 17 - Not Your Mother's Video Game: The Role of Motherhood in Video Game Advertising (Shira Chess, University of Georgia, USA)

Chapter 18 - "Be a Bully to Beat a Bully": Twitter Ethics, Online Identity, and the Culture of Quick Revenge (Scott Stroud & Kristyn Goldberg, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Chapter 19 - "Faux-Feminist Tea Party": The Ethics of Online Feminist Spaces as Read through Feminist Blog Jezebel (Molly Bandonis & Paul Booth, DePaul University, USA)

Conclusion, Amber Davisson & Paul Booth (DePaul University, USA)

Afterword: Dr Charles Ess (University of Oslo, Norway)

Bibliography
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