Communication Ethics in an Online Age
Understanding Social Media Ecology
Communication Ethics in an Online Age
Understanding Social Media Ecology
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Description
In this book, Kati E. Sudnick and Matthew P. Mancino engage the work of major communication ethics and media ecology touchstones to understand social media's effect on human communication and interaction.
Working from the McLuhan (1964) perspective that electronic media expands the human central nervous system into the universe, we engage with various types of social media to understand the unintended consequences of using this variegated medium as our central means of human interaction. The book utilizes virtue ethics as founded by Aristotle and further explored by Alasdair MacIntyre (1981) as the primary communication ethics lens to understand why these unintended consequences of social media use matter for the human condition, describing potential steps forward as we continue to navigate an online world.
Ultimately, this book serves as a theoretical pathway for understanding media ecology and virtue ethics in a postmodern age as they attend to the virtual space.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Understanding the Web: The Origins and Functions of Social Media
1. The Origins, Development, and Communicative Environment of the Internet
2. The World Wide Web: Understanding the Social Media of Today
Part II: Exploring Social Media Extremes: Discerning Online Golden Means
3. Community and Isolation: No Sense of Bowling Together
4. Security and Insecurity: Creepy Utopias in a Digital Risk Society
5. Selfhood, Bots, and Catfish: Identity and Anonymity Online
6. Sharing is Caring? Blurring the Personal and Corporate Online
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781666970432 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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