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O'Neill, Onora

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9781108986816: A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication
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ISBN 10: 1108986811 ISBN 13: 9781108986816
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Onora O'Neill is Honorary Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. She is the author of numerous books on Kant, ethics and political philosophy, including Justice Across Boundaries (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108986811
ISBN 13 
9781108986816
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
150
Rating
  • 3.55 out of 5 stars
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