Charles (Hrsg.) Ess

Trust and Virtual Worlds

Contemporary Perspectives

Buch

Trust is essential to human society and the good life. At the same time, citizens of developed countries spend more and more time in virtual environments. This collection asks how far virtual environments, especially those affiliated with Web 2.0, challenge and foster trust? The book's early chapters establish historical, linguistic, and philosophical foundations for key concepts of trust, embodiment, virtuality, and virtual worlds. Four philosophers then analyze how trust - historically interwoven with embodied co-presence - may be enhanced through online environments. Final contributions tackle the specific challenges of virtual child porno… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Thorseth, May (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4331-0922-5
EAN: 9781433109225
Produktnummer: 14434877
Verlag: Lang, Peter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 193 S.
Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.2 cm 322 g
Auflage: New
Reihenbandnummer: 63
Gewicht: 322

Über den Autor

Charles Ess is Professor MSO in the Department of Information and Media Studies at Aarhus University (2009-2012). Recent publications include Digital Media Ethics (2009) and, with Mia Consalvo as co-editor, The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies (2010). With Fay Sudweeks, he co-founded and co-chairs the biennial conference series Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC). May Thorseth is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, director of the Programme for Applied Ethics, and also part of the management group of NTNU's Globalisation Programme. Most of her recent work has focused on deliberative democracy, in particular related to online communication and virtual environments, and also on democracy and fundamentalism in view of global communication ethics.