Hacking Digital Ethics - Anthem Ethics of Personal Data Collection

This book is not a critique of digital ethics but rather a hack. It follows the method of hacking by developing an exploit kit on the basis of state-of-the-art social theory, which it uses to breach the insecure legacy system upon which the discourse of digital ethics is running. This legacy system is made up of four interdependent components: the philosophical mythology of humanism, social science critique, media scandalization, and the activities of many civil society organisations lobbying for various forms of regulation. The hack exposes the bugs, the sloppy programming, and the false promises of current digital ethics, and, because it is an ethical hack, redesigns digital ethics so that it can address the problems of the global network society. The main idea of the book is that the social world of meaning is based on information, which, because of its relational nature, must be understood more as a common good than as private property. A digital ethics that relies upon humanistic individualism cannot address the issues arising from the global network society based upon information. This demands a complete revision of the philosophical foundations of current digital ethics by means of a redesign of ethics as a theory of governance by design. 

ISBN:	9781839985881
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Imprint:	Anthem Press
Published date:	03 May 2022
DEWEY:	175
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	282
Weight:	454g
Height:	229mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	26mm

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