A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108986816)

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.

Author: Onora O'Neill
ISBN-10: 1108986811
ISBN-13: 9781108986816
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2022
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.79h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023