Ethics for a Digital Age

Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, this volume contributes to the growing body of work on digital ethics. Vanacker and Heider argue that the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) necessitates a revision of our ethics in order to deal with the challenges of the new digital world. They ask the reader to reflect on how this digital age shifts our norms and ethics, how we will deal with those who do not abide with them and how these shifts affect power relations in our society. Eleven chapters and concluding remarks are divided into three parts: shifting professional norms in a digital age; managing norm violators in digital spaces; control, power and technology. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Bastiaan Vanacker (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, where he also serves as the Program Director for the Center for Digital Ethics & Policy.

Don Heider (PhD., University of Colorado) is a Professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. He is the founding dean of the School, where he also helped found the Center for Digital Ethics & Policy. He is the author and editor of six books, and a former journalist who won six Emmy awards for his work.