Author: Onora O'NeillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108986811
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Explores how digital technologies have raised new ethical issues for communication.
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication
Author: Onora O'NeillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108990592
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Communication is complicated, and so is the ethics of communication. We communicate about innumerable topics, to varied audiences, using a gamut of technologies. The ethics of communication, therefore, has to address a wide range of technical, ethical and epistemic requirements. In this book, Onora O'Neill shows how digital technologies have made communication more demanding: they can support communication with huge numbers of distant and dispersed recipients; they can amplify or suppress selected content; and they can target or ignore selected audiences. Often this is done anonymously, making it harder for readers and listeners, viewers and browsers, to assess which claims are true or false, reliable or misleading, flaky or fake. So how can we empower users to assess and evaluate digital communication, so that they can tell which standards it meets and which it flouts? That is the challenge which this book explores.
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication
Author: Onora O'NeillPublisher:
ISBN: 9781108981583
Category : PHILOSOPHY
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"The ethics of communication is distinctive because communication includes a huge, complex and diverse range of activities that penetrate and shape every part of human life. All communication requires at least two parties -an originator and a recipient, or multiple originators and recipients-who must have specific and linkable capacities to satisfy and to recognise the many technical, ethical and epistemic standards that bear on communication"--
Author: Raymond GeussTheory of the Image
Author: Thomas NailPublisher:
ISBN: 0190924039
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for the way we think about contemporary art and aesthetics but also for art history as well. Responding to this historical moment, Theory of the Image offers a fresh new theory and history of art from the perspective of this epoch-defining mobility. The image has been understood in many ways, but it is rarely understood to be fundamentally in motion. The original and materialist approach is what defines Theory of the Image and what allows it to offer the first kinetic history of the Western art tradition. In this book, Thomas Nail further develops his larger philosophy of movement into a comprehensive "kinesthetic" of the moving image from prehistory to the present. The book concludes with a vivid analysis of the contemporary digital image and its hybridity, ultimately outlining new territory for research and exploration across aesthetics, art history, cultural theory, and media studies.
Author: Michael Ruse
Author: Sophie Grace ChappellA Philosopher Looks at Science
Author: Nancy CartwrightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009201905
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science – not just experiments or theories – and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.
Author: Zena Hitz
Author: Onora O'Neill