1st Edition
Email and Ethics Style and Ethical Relations in Computer-Mediated Communications
By Emma Rooksby
Copyright 2002
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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E-mail and Ethics explores the ways in which interpersonal relations are affected by being conducted via computer-mediated communication. The advent of this channel of communication has prompted a renewed investigation into the nature and value of forms of human association. Rooksby addresses these concerns in her rigorous investigation of the benefits, limitations and implications of... Read more
1. Style and Ethics 2. Empathy in Computer-Mediated Communication 3. Affect and Action in CMC 4. Technical Constraints on CMC 5. Computer-Mediated Friendship 6. Politics and CMC
Biography
Emma Rooksby is Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australia. Her research covers computer ethics, including on-line democracy, on-line relationship and the ethics of text-based communication. Her publications include Habitus: a sense of place (edited with Jean Hillier, Routledge, forthcoming), and 'Empathy in computer-mediated communication' in Mark Wolf (ed.) Virtual Morality (Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming).
