The contemporary society from the perspective of information ethics
What is the present role of philosophy? Given the several possible distinct answers to this question, we turn our attention at some topics related to the so-called Information Ethics, a relatively recent branch of philosophical-interdisciplinary research that discusses problems arising from the rela...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) |
| Repositorio: | Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/56496 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/56496 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | information society; digital technologies; informational privacy; epistemic arrogance; digital divide. sociedade da informação; tecnologias digitais; privacidade informacional; arrogância epistêmica; divisão digital. |
| Resumo: | What is the present role of philosophy? Given the several possible distinct answers to this question, we turn our attention at some topics related to the so-called Information Ethics, a relatively recent branch of philosophical-interdisciplinary research that discusses problems arising from the relationship between human beings and digital technologies. Themes such as informational privacy, epistemic arrogance and digital divide will be discussed and related, in order to illustrate the role of philosophy in understanding the structural complexity of social dynamics in the context of the information society. We argue that thinking about the contemporary world from the perspective of Information Ethics is becoming more and more essential to account the rapid changes that the information revolution imposes on life in society and so that we are not flooded by information excess that we witness in our everyday life. |
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