ethics of new or emerging media
Hi all, I'm thinking of introducing an Ethics of New Media course next spring, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions for a text. This would be for sophomore-senior undergraduates. I've read Ethics of Emerging Media, and while I appreciate the text, it's beyond the level of my students. Thoughts? Thanks, Tery Griffin
Charles Ess's "Digital Media Ethics" is a good starting point, and provides an easily-digestible analysis of both the ethical frameworks, and how they play out in current new media technologies. And I've used Tavani's "Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing" for my general information technology ethics class, but that isn't focused on only new media (depending on how you are defining that). Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Aug 8, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Tery G wrote:
Hi all,
I'm thinking of introducing an Ethics of New Media course next spring, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions for a text. This would be for sophomore-senior undergraduates.
I've read Ethics of Emerging Media, and while I appreciate the text, it's beyond the level of my students.
Thoughts?
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Many thanks for the recommendation, Michael! Let me add that I will be working on the second edition of DME for delivery to Polity in December. The revisions will include new case-studies and updates, etc., from my own use of the book in teaching; as well, since its publication in 2009 I have received a number of very useful suggestions, including very teachable case-studies and related student projects, from colleagues and AoIRists that I plan to incorporate in the revisions (and with great gratitude and scrupulous acknowledgement). All of this is to say: a) if anyone is planning to use the book and would like access to some of the updated material (both my own and that contributed by other colleagues), please contact me off-list and I'll see what I can do to send along relevant materials as well as put you in touch with relevant colleagues; and b) if anyone has any additional suggestions, including suggestions for more recent case-studies, etc. that you would be willing to share for possible inclusion in the 2nd edition, I would be very grateful indeed to hear from you! Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Professor MSO Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 == On 8/9/11 4:12 AM, "Michael Zimmer" <zimmerm@uwm.edu> wrote:
Charles Ess's "Digital Media Ethics" is a good starting point, and provides an easily-digestible analysis of both the ethical frameworks, and how they play out in current new media technologies.
And I've used Tavani's "Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing" for my general information technology ethics class, but that isn't focused on only new media (depending on how you are defining that).
Michael
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