This presentation was given by Donald Heider as part of the MEDEAnet webinar: "Digital Ethics" on 10 April 2014 . MEDEAnet aims to promote media-based learning to organisations and practitioners through local training and networking events, online resources and knowledge sharing. MEDEAnet will also exploit best practices of the annual competition MEDEA Awards and extend its existing informal network and support the MEDEA Association, a membership organisation that ensures the sustainability of the MEDEA Awards. More info: http://www.medeanet.eu/
3. • Who is that?
• Amina Arraf, a Syrian-American
lesbian, who was blogging from
Damascus.
• It was reported at one point that
she had been kidnapped by
Syrian security forces.
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4. • But the blogger was really Tom
MacMaster, a graduate student
at Edinburgh University.
• He says he started the blog to
draw attention to conditions in
the Middle East.
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5. • Who is behind blogs?
• Are Facebook pages
always representative of
real people?
• What is a credible source
in 2014?
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7. • Free lance photographer Richard Lam
took the shot.
• It went viral, but immediately in blogs
and in news media a lot of people said
the photo wasn’t real.
• It was too perfect – it had to be staged or
digitally altered.
• Lam didn’t help things because he never
got the names of the couple.
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• The lovers were identified as Scott Jones and Alexandra
Thomas
10. Ethics in a Digital World
• What are ethics?
– The process of putting greater weight on
some moral claims
– Ethics is a deliberative practice, where we
consider .
– Ethos = character
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• Digital Ethics
• What do we do with this new technology?
• How does technology change our behavior?
• How do you behave on the web?
• What would be some guiding principals?
12. Ethics in a Digital World
• Digital ethics just help
us to think about what
principals should guide
us in digital realms.