A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication

Author: Onora O'Neill
Publisher: 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'Neill
Publisher: 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'Neill
Publisher:
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"--

A Philosopher Looks at Friendship

Author: Sophie Grace Chappell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009255541
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Philosophers often treat friendship as something systematic and earnest. For Chappell it is neither, yet still central to human experience.

A Philosopher Looks at Science

Author: Nancy Cartwright
Publisher: 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.

A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life

Author: Zena Hitz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108995012
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
A book rich in personal and practical wisdom pointing to the meaning of a religious life and its promised happiness.

Political Theory of the Digital Age

Author: Mathias Risse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009255215
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
This book investigates how artificial intelligence might influence our political practices and ideas, and how we should respond.

Communicating Risk and Safety

Author: Timothy L. Sellnow
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110752425
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 652

Book Description
The world is wrought with risks that may harm people and cost lives. The news is riddled with reports of natural disasters (wildfires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes), industrial disasters (chemical spills, water and air pollution), and health pandemics (e.g., SARS, H1NI, COVID19). Effective risk communication is critical to mitigating harms. The body of research in this handbook reveals the challenges of communicating such messages, affirms the need for dialogue, embraces the role of instruction in proactively communicating risk, acknowledges the function of competing risk messages, investigates the growing influence of new media, and constantly reconsiders the ethical imperative for communicating recommendations for enhanced safety.

Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption

Author: Minna Aslama Horowitz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031459768
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In today's complex era of digital disruption, it is not enough to simply speak about communication or even digital rights. The starting point for this volume is the need for 'epistemic equality'. The contributors seek to showcase the history and diversity of current debates around communication and digital rights, as precursors for the need for epistemic rights; both as a theoretical concept and an empirically assessed benchmark. The book highlights scholarship via academic case studies from around the world to feature different issues and methodological approaches, as well as similarities in academic and policy challenges across the globe. The goal is to provide an overview of issues that depict challenges to epistemic rights, extract both academic and applied policy implications of different approaches, and end with a set of recommendations for advancing policy-relevant scholarship on epistemic rights. This volume is intended as the first holistic response to an urgent need to address epistemic rights of communication as a central public policy issue, as an academic analytical concept, as well as a central theme for informed public debate. This book is open-access, meaning you have free and unlimited access.

A Philosopher Looks at Work

Author: Raymond Geuss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108930611
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
A survey on the nature of work, integrating conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary.