Lecture 13 - Ethics and social media. After studying this chapter you will be able to understand: Why ethics? Motivation; ethics, applied ethics and morals; the aim(s) of ethics; some ethical theories (and their applications); social media: examples of issues in privacy, property, teaching, friendship. | LECTURE 13 ETHICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA 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 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa 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 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa 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? 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa 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 5/14/2020 6:47:49 AM Kai K. Kimppa 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 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 . | LECTURE 13 ETHICS AND SOCIAL MEDIA 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 5/14/2020 6:47:51 AM Kai K. Kimppa 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 5/14/2020 6:47:51 AM Kai K. Kimppa 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? 5/14/2020 6:47:51 AM Kai K. Kimppa ETHICS, APPLIED ETHICS AND MORALS Ethics is the study of .
