Controversies in Digital Ethics

Controversies in Digital Ethics offers multiple perspectives on the ways that digital technology and new media have changed contemporary ethical frameworks. Through both theoretical examination as well as specific case studies, the essays provide a vigorous examination of ethics in a highly individualistic and mediated world.

Professors Paul Booth and Amber Davisson bring together multiple writers working from different ethical frameworks to represent the multiplicity of ethical thinking in the 21st century. Each essay has been chosen to focus on a particular issue in contemporary ethical thinking in order to both facilitate classroom discussion and also to further scholarship in digital media ethics. Accessible for students, but with robust analysis to provide contemporary scholarship in media ethics, this is the first and only collection to unite theory, case studies, and practice within one volume.

Paul Booth is an Associate Professor at DePaul University, USA. He is the author ofDigital Fandom: New Media Studies (2010), Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (2012),Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age (2015) and Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (Bloomsbury, 2015). He is the editor ofFan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013).

Amber Davisson is a Lecturer in Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University, USA. She is the author ofLady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture (2013). Her research on political communication in digital spaces has appeared in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of Media & Digital Literacy, Journal of Visual Literacy, and theAmerican Communication Journal.