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Today's digital revolution is a worldwide phenomenon, with profound and often differential implications for communities around the world and their relationships to one another. This book presents a new, explicitly international theory of media ethics, incorporating non-Western perspectives and drawing deeply on both moral philosophy and the philosophy of technology. Clifford Christians develops an ethics grounded in three principles - truth, human dignity, and non-violence - and shows how these principles can be applied across a wide range of cases and domains. The book is a guide for media professionals, scholars, and educators who are concerned with the global ramifications of new technologies and with creating a more just world.

We already entered the era of Unmanned Vehicles, drones, boats and more recently cars are going to be "driven" by software, sensors, cameras, radars and more are the senses of our vehicles. If the risk that a flying or floating drone can be hacked is concerning us as well as the temporary lack of specific legislation, what about the concerns related to ethical and moral aspects, not neglecting the legal ones, concerning autonomous road vehicles such as cars and buses ? Safety and security standards for such devices are not set actually, how will behave two cars, both from the same builder or not, in case of imminent collision? Of course, the cyber-driver is supposed to be perfect but the environment may introduce some bias, hence on the moral and ethical side how will the cyber-driver take decisions? As an additional concern, today even cars may be subject to cyber-attacks as it already happened to Jeep vehicles in the United States, if on one side the regular car service or re-call for update can be performed through the permanent car connection to the Internet, no more need to physically take the car back to the service (this might lead to unwanted outcomes), on the other side in case of cyber-attacks our car might behave in a unpredictable way. As a consequence, possibly before a mass diffusion of such vehicles, we must be aware about some aspects: the risk of cyber-attacks that may turn everyday commodities like cars into "weapons" and the "programmed" behaviour of cars in case of "risky" scenarios. Security standards and harmonised "behaviours" together with an appropriate legal framework will probably help.

This book is not a critique of digital ethics but rather a hack. It follows the method of hacking by developing an exploit kit on the basis of state-of-the-art social theory, which it uses to breach the insecure legacy system upon which the discourse of digital ethics is running. This legacy system is made up of four interdependent components: the philosophical mythology of humanism, social science critique, media scandalization, and the activities of many civil society organisations lobbying for various forms of regulation. The hack exposes the bugs, the sloppy programming, and the false promises of current digital ethics, and, because it is an ethical hack, redesigns digital ethics so that it can address the problems of the global network society. The main idea of the book is that the social world of meaning is based on information, which, because of its relational nature, must be understood more as a common good than as private property. A digital ethics that relies upon humanistic individualism cannot address the issues arising from the global network society based upon information. This demands a complete revision of the philosophical foundations of current digital ethics by means of a redesign of ethics as a theory of governance by design.

INTRODUCTION: In a saturated market with an over-supply of undergraduate and graduate programs, social media have become attractive means of advertising in Dentistry. However, posts frequently contain ethical violations and lead to service commodification, and their contents are often in disagreement with the Code of Consumer Protection. OBJECTIVE: This article, which focuses on ethical and legal developments, contributes to the discussion and elucidation of questions associated with advertising that uses clinical images and photographs of patients in social media for commercial purposes and self-promotion. CONCLUSION: Social media and networks are valuable tools of dissemination and exchange of information because of their flexibility, democratic character and low cost. However, their abusive or misleading use, as well as the ethical and legal violations associated with the difficulty in controlling their use, may lead to serious damages and unfavorable court decisions.

ABSTRACT Introduction: In a saturated market with an over-supply of undergraduate and graduate programs, social media have become attractive means of advertising in Dentistry. However, posts frequently contain ethical violations and lead to service commodification, and their contents are often in disagreement with the Code of Consumer Protection. Objective: This article, which focuses on ethical and legal developments, contributes to the discussion and elucidation of questions associated with advertising that uses clinical images and photographs of patients in social media for commercial purposes and self-promotion. Conclusion: Social media and networks are valuable tools of dissemination and exchange of information because of their flexibility, democratic character and low cost. However, their abusive or misleading use, as well as the ethical and legal violations associated with the difficulty in controlling their use, may lead to serious damages and unfavorable court decisions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: From Solving Mechanical Dilemmas to Taking Care of Digital Ecology -- Should a Self-driving Car -- PART I: Digital Ecologies Today -- 1. Three Species Challenges: Toward a General Ecology of Cognitive Assemblages -- PART II: The Ethos: Description and Formation -- 2. Viral Storytelling as Contemporary Narrative Didacticism: Deriving Universal Truths from Arbitrary Narratives of Personal Experience -- 3. Authorship vs. Assemblage in Digital Media -- 4. The Logic of Selection and Poetics of Cultural Interfaces: A Literature of Full Automation? -- 5. Ghosts Beyond the Machine: "Schizoid Nondroids" and Fictions of Surveillance Capitalism -- PART III: The Ethos: Entanglement and Delegation -- 6. The Zombies of the Digital: What Justice Should We Wait For? -- 7. Just Machines. On Algorithmic Ethos and Justice -- 8. Automation: Between Factuality and Normativity -- 9. How Agents Lost their Cognitive Capacities within the Computational Evolution of Market Competition -- 10. Thinking about Google Search As #DigitalColonialism -- PART IV: The Ethos: Thinking, Computing, and Ethics -- 11. The Light of Morality and the Light of the Machine -- 12. What Do We Call "Thinking" in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Moral Machines? -- 13. Can a Machine Have a Soul? -- 14. The Chiasm: Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts. Our Being with Technology -- Index.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- 1 Introduction -- References -- I Keynotes as to Core Issues -- 2 Research Ethics in the Digital Age: Fundamentals and Problems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fundamental questions concerning research ethics -- 3 Problems in research ethics -- 4 Problems with interdisciplinarity -- 5 The digital age -- 6 Research ethics - an impairment to progress? -- 7 The integrated approach to research ethics in the digital age -- References -- 3 What's Responsible for the Retraction Boom? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What's Responsible for the Retraction Boom? -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Data Protection Laws, Research Ethics and Social Sciences -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Protection vs. Freedom of Science -- 3 Basic Principles of (European) Data Protection Law -- 3.1 Personal Data -- 3.2 Principle of data minimisation -- 3.3 Legal Basis for Data Processing -- 3.4 Informed Consent -- 3.5 Sensitive Data -- 4 Two Case Studies -- 4.1 The "Tastes, Ties and Time" Project -- 4.2 Behavioural Research on Facebook -- 5 Research Ethics and Data Protection Laws -- 6 Résumé -- References -- Laws -- 5 Crowd-Based Documentation of Plagiarism: The VroniPlag Wiki Experience -- 1 A short history -- 2 The crowd -- 3 Documentation in VroniPlag Wiki -- 3.1 Tools for plagiarism detection -- 3.2 Non-public documentation -- 3.3 Overview and breakdown of documented cases -- 3.4 How cases are found -- 4 Mass plagiarism in medicine and other misconduct -- 5 Multiple publications of articles -- 6 Incentives for plagiarism -- 7 Dangers of plagiarism -- References -- 6 The Empowerment of Users: Rethinking Educational Practice Online -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Promises of user/learner involvement in online education -- 2.1 Openness: OER, MOOC, etc. -- 2.2 User generation of content -- 2.3 Independence of learning behaviour

This paper is a review of the 18th National Ethics Conference that took place in November 2022 and was organized by the Department of Ethical Studies of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of this review is to give publicity to the event by informing of the thematic panels, the titles of the reports and the names of the researchers who participated.