Villorente, Allyssa Marie

New Digital
Technology and
Global
Communication
Ethics
Clifford G. Christians
In the emerging digital era electronic
networking and massive databases,
the first challenge for communication
ethics is to establish the agenda for the
new media system.
New Information Age
- 31 billion searches on Baidou and
Google every month
- 350, 000 years of online video
watched everyday
- more than 500 websites are
created every second

New Information Age
"
The explosive growth of digital media
gives us communication abundance but
the complications and contradictions
"
are cooling our enthusiasm.
Standard Categories of
Agenda Setting :
Ethical Issues
1. continue ethical concerns
and Concerns
of the past
in Digital Era
2. new issues
3. create levels of complexity
therefore unknown
ETHICAL CONCERNS AND ISSUES
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Justice is the defining norm for all social ,

institution
including the policies and practices of media
organizations .
Media access must be available to everyone
according to essential needs , regardless of
income or geographical location .

SOCIAL JUSTICE
Information technology confronts the injustice of the
digital divide - between the rich and poor Norris ( , 2001).

According to Debatin (2008), " the internet media
do not just perpetuate social inequalities, but often
multiply them . in ,
reality the global village is a
gated community ."

POLITICAL EMPIRE
- State surveillance in unprecedented terms
- September 11, 2001 '

attacks on New York s World Trade
Center , led to a shift in the Department of Justice s goal '

from prosecuting terrorists to preventing terrorism
Fearful rhetoric about the dangerous world has
allowed secret information - gathering not for
probable cause but for any alleged reason .

POLITICAL EMPIRE
. .
The U S National Security Agency is abusively intrusive into
private affairs at home and into government affairs
internationally .
'
India s Home Ministry now has the right to monitor
and decrypt digital messages whenever it considers
eavesdropping vital to national security
- war on terrorism
"ONLINE CREATOR"
blogging , video blogger, podcaster, micro
,
blogger online journalist
"
Each and every increase in complexity causes
a loss of transparency ." - Paradox of Media
(
Complexity Bernhard Debatin )
"ONLINE CREATOR"
"
With anonymity where is accountability and
without transparency where is responsibility ?"

Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online
Professionals uses code of ethics as a framework
for resolving online dilemmas such as internet
, ,
sources privacy and speed versus accuracy .
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
In a world of networked digital media that
"
interconnects our lives in ever - expanding webs of
relationships with others throughout the diverse
cultures of the globe , like it or not , we are all
increasingly cosmopolitan , citizens of the world , not
simply citizens of a given nation .- Charles Ess (2014)

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
"
citizen of the cosmos "- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- our ways of knowing in the era of digital
media need to be redirected from our
immediate and national circles to a respect for
'
humanity s moral capacity as a whole .
VIOLENCE
- special concern about the sexual violence in video
games and in music media and sadistic torture of
slasher films
- new dimension of violence through hate speech on
the internet
- media ethics promotes the common good
while violent cinema illuminates evil

VIOLENCE
Raphael Cohen - Almagor is undoubtedly
'
correct that the public s most strategic
action is to engage and reform ISPs
(
Internet Service Provider ) and WHSs
( -
Web Hosting Services ).
PRIVACY
Privacy is defined as the rights of humans to control
the ,
time ,
place and circumstances of information
about themselves .
In totalitarian societies , the absence of privacy led to
product a servile population .

PRIVACY
Micromedia are increasingly used to publicize personal
and intimate information within the anonymity of the
digital environment .
Privacy as a moral good in the digital age needs
new theorizing and application beyond national
boundaries.
PORNOGRAPHY
- technological blurring of the once clear linens between
the actual or the real and the virtual ( as grounded in
diverse computational technologies )

- mediated sex online is typically bizarre and oppressive
Sexting - the proliferating exchange of sexual
images via smart and cell phones

PORNOGRAPHY
Does online pornography presume that real
persons are communicating or does it represent
this argument :" What happens is all just pixels on a
screen, radically divorced from real persons in the
real world, and hence nothing to be concerned
about "(Ess, 2012).

MULTICULTURALISM
The ethics of representation faces the demand to
specify how gender , ,

ethnicity and class are symbolized
in networked cyberspace .
Multiculturalism in the digital era is complicated by
the contradictory trends of cultural homogenity and
resistance to it.
MULTICULTURALISM
In communication ethics, the integration of globalization
and multiculturalism is the extraordinary challenge.
For multiculturalism, communication ethics that is
legitimate is not rigid and formal, but respects the
diversity of the human race even while seeking
commoness among peoples everywhere.

Ethical Issues and
Concerns in Digital Era
social justice, empire, blogging, global citizenship,
violence, privacy, pornography, multiculturalism
Issues in Media Ethics
truth, human dignity, nonviolence

Collaborating on a credible agenda
will help ensure that we emphasize
the major issues in global
communication ethics and not be
distracted by the secondary and
superficial.

Villorente, Allyssa Marie

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New Digital

- 31 billion searches on Baidou and

Google every month

- 350, 000 years of online video

- more than 500 websites are

created every second

gives us communication abundance but

the complications and contradictions

3. create levels of complexity

Justice is the defining norm for all social ,

including the policies and practices of media

according to essential needs , regardless of

income or geographical location .

Information technology confronts the injustice of the

digital divide - between the rich and poor Norris ( , 2001).

do not just perpetuate social inequalities, but often

gated community ."

- State surveillance in unprecedented terms

- September 11, 2001 '

Center , led to a shift in the Department of Justice s goal '

Fearful rhetoric about the dangerous world has

allowed secret information - gathering not for

probable cause but for any alleged reason .

private affairs at home and into government affairs

and decrypt digital messages whenever it considers

eavesdropping vital to national security

blogging , video blogger, podcaster, micro

a loss of transparency ." - Paradox of Media

without transparency where is responsibility ?"

Professionals uses code of ethics as a framework

for resolving online dilemmas such as internet

In a world of networked digital media that

relationships with others throughout the diverse

cultures of the globe , like it or not , we are all

increasingly cosmopolitan , citizens of the world , not

simply citizens of a given nation .- Charles Ess (2014)

- our ways of knowing in the era of digital

media need to be redirected from our

immediate and national circles to a respect for

games and in music media and sadistic torture of

- new dimension of violence through hate speech on

- media ethics promotes the common good

while violent cinema illuminates evil

Raphael Cohen - Almagor is undoubtedly

action is to engage and reform ISPs

Privacy is defined as the rights of humans to control

product a servile population .

Micromedia are increasingly used to publicize personal

and intimate information within the anonymity of the

new theorizing and application beyond national

- technological blurring of the once clear linens between

the actual or the real and the virtual ( as grounded in

diverse computational technologies )

Sexting - the proliferating exchange of sexual

images via smart and cell phones

Does online pornography presume that real

persons are communicating or does it represent

this argument :" What happens is all just pixels on a

screen, radically divorced from real persons in the

real world, and hence nothing to be concerned

about "(Ess, 2012).

The ethics of representation faces the demand to

specify how gender , ,