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Transition to Digital Ethics: A Primer from Philosophy to Practice book cover

1st Edition

Transition to Digital Ethics A Primer from Philosophy to Practice

By Marc Cheong, Simon Coghlan Copyright 2026
148 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

148 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

148 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall
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As digital technologies become more pervasive and powerful, they raise increasingly pressing ethical questions that need to be understood and addressed. This book provides an accessible introduction to the important field of digital ethics. It explores topical examples of ethical problems created by the technology and shows how ethical ideas and values can be used to make sense of them. It... Read more

1. Introduction 2. The Changing State of Play: What Are We Concerned With? 3. What Is the Problem with Tech? 4. Philosophical and Ethical Theory 5. Being (Digitally) Ethical 6. No Silver Bullet 7. Moving Forward

Biography

Marc Cheong is Deputy Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) and Senior Lecturer of Information Systems (Digital Ethics) at the University of Melbourne, and Honorary Burnet Institute Senior Fellow. His research interests are in social media, bridging philosophy/ethics and IS, and societal implications of technology, among others.

Simon Coghlan is Deputy Director of CAIDE and Senior Lecturer of Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. He is a moral philosopher and a former veterinarian. His research interests are in AI ethics, including how AI affects humans, animals, and the environment, and in robot ethics, including the ethics of human interactions and relations with machines.

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