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Ethics and Social Media: Understanding the Intersection for a Balanced Digital Society

Explore the rapid advancements in technology and their impact on ethical values in the era of social media. Join discussions on ethics, morals, and laws with various stakeholders to bridge the gap between technology and ethics. Delve into applied ethics and moral theories to navigate new ethical questions arising from ICT. Learn about ethical theories and their applications in the digital age.

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Ethics and Social Media: Understanding the Intersection for a Balanced Digital Society

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  1. Lecture 13Ethics and Social Media

  2. Why ethics? Technology advances faster than ethical values, morals and especially laws Discussion between relevant parties needed, ethicists, professionals, ’intelligentsia’, organisation representatives, politicians, media, ’normal’ people, etc. Law and morals do not always meet Kai K. Kimppa

  3. Motivation Vacuum of rules • Rules of the field derived from old rules, there aren’t any rules or they aren’t followed Conceptual muddles • Is a program a service, means of production, idea or a presentation of an idea? Social use environment • ICT artefacts are seldom private affairs anymore Kai K. Kimppa

  4. New questions? New area, old questions or new area with new questions? Does the medium bring new ethical questions to bear? Is there something fundamentally different about ICT compared to other things? Kai K. Kimppa

  5. Ethics, Applied Ethics and Morals Ethics is the study of morals Morals are the (right or good) habits which people have in a society (lat. mores) Applied ethics tries to clarify the questions of ethics/morals so that they can be discussed • Professional ethics within a field Ethics have been and are still used to formulate policies in societies Kai K. Kimppa

  6. The aim(s) of Ethics The good of the people • To understand what it would be – meta ethics • To build a system(s) to solve how to get there • To apply the system(s) to actual questions coherently and consistently • To aid us in our moral problems and to give descriptions of what ethical positions people hold Kai K. Kimppa

  7. Some ethical theories (and their applications) Virtue ethics (Aristoteles, MacIntyre, others) • Moral character of a person  professional ethics? • Ethics of friendship – online? • Telos (an ultimate aim or object), the meaning of life Utilitarianism or Consequentialism (Mill, Bentham) • The greatest amount of good for (the greatest amount of) people Kai K. Kimppa

  8. Some ethical theories (and their applications) Deontology, duty ethics (Kant, Rawls) • We have duties to others • Never treat another person merely as means, but always as an end in themselves • Universal moral law • Voluntary action Rights based theories (Locke, Rawls) • Classic Liberalism, Libertarianism • Communitarianism, Socialism, Social Democracy Kai K. Kimppa

  9. Social Media:Examples of Issues in Privacy Property Teaching Friendship Etc. Kai K. Kimppa

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