Books on Social Networking and Ethics

Bibliography

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• Barnes, S.B., 2001, Online Connections: Internet Interpersonal Relationships, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
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• –––, 1999, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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• Dahlberg, L., 2001, “The Internet and Democratic Discourse: Exploring the Prospects of Online Deliberative Forums Extending the Public Sphere,” Information, Communication and Society, 4(4): 615–633.
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• Dreyfus, H., 2001, On the Internet, New York: Routledge.
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• Elder, A., 2014, “Excellent Online Friendships: An Aristotelian Defense of Social Media,” Ethics and Information Technology, 16(4): 287–297.
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• Ess, C., 1996, “The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC and Habermas,” in Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication, (C. Ess, ed.), Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 197–230.
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• –––, 2005b, “Moral Imperatives for Life in an Intercultural Global Village,” in The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives, R.J. Cavalier (ed.), Albany NY: SUNY Press, pp. 161–193.
• –––, 2006, “Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics,” Ethics and Information Technology, 8(4): 215–226.
• –––, 2010, “The Embodied Self in a Digital Age: Possibilities, Risks and Prospects for a Pluralistic (democratic/liberal) Future?” Nordicom Information, 32(2): 105–118.
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• Feenberg, A., 1999, Questioning Technology, New York: Routledge.
• Floridi, L., 2011, “The Informational Nature of Personal Identity,” Minds and Machines, 21(4): 549–566.
• –––, 2015, “Free Online Services: Enabling, Disenfranchising, Disempowering,” Philosophy and Technology, 28: 163–166.
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• Friedersdorf, C., 2015, “How Dangerous is End-to-End Encryption?,” The Atlantic, July 14, 2015,available online.
• Froding, B. and Peterson, M., 2012, “Why Virtual Friendship is No Genuine Friendship,” Ethics and Information Technology, 14(3): 201–207.
• Giles, D., 2006, “Constructing Identities in Cyberspace: The Case of Eating Disorders,” British Journal of Social Psychology, 45: 463–477.
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• Grodzinsky, F.S. and Tavani, H.T., 2010, “Applying the ‘Contextual Integrity’ Model of Privacy to Personal Blogs in the Blogosphere,” International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, 3(1): 38–47.
• Habermas, J., 1992/1998, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Hamington, M., 2010, “Care Ethics, Friendship and Facebook,” in Facebook and Philosophy, D.E. Wittkower (ed.), Chicago: Open Court, pp. 135–145.
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• Heidegger, M., 1954/1977, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, New York: Harper and Row.
• Honglaradom, S., 2007, “Analysis and Justification of Privacy from a Buddhist Perspective,” in S. Hongladarom and C. Ess (eds.), Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives, Hershey, PA: Idea Group, pp. 108–122.
• –––, 2011, “Personal Identity and the Self in the Online and Offline World,” Minds and Machines, 21(4): 533–548.
• Hongladarom, S. and Britz, J., 2010, “Intercultural Information Ethics,” International Review of Information Ethics, 13: 2–5.
• Hull, G., 2015, “Successful Failure: What Foucault Can Teach Us about Privacy Self-Management in a World of Facebook and Big Data,” Ethics and Information Technology, online. doi:10.1007/s10676-015-9363-z
• Hull, G., Lipford H.R. and Latulipe, C., 2011, “Contextual Gaps: Privacy Issues on Facebook,” Ethics and Information Technology, 13(4): 289–302.
• Introna, L., 2011, “Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL=<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/ethics-it-phenomenology/>
• Ito, M. et al., 2009, Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Lanier, J. 2010, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, New York: Knopf.
• Light, B., McGrath, K. and Griffiths, M., 2008, “More Than Just Friends? Facebook, Disclosive Ethics and the Morality of Technology,” ICIS 2008 Proceedings, Paper 193, available online.
• Manders-Huits, N., 2010, “Practical versus Moral Identities in Identity Management,” Ethics and Information Technology, 12(1): 43–55.
• Marturano, A., 2011, “The Ethics of Online Social Networks—An Introduction,” International Review of Information Ethics, 16: 3–5.
• Moor, J., 2008, “Why We Need Better Ethics for Emerging Technologies,” in Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, J. van den Hoven and J. Weckert (eds.), Cambridge: UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 26–39.
• Nissenbaum, M., 2004, “Privacy as Contextual Integrity,” Washington Law Review, 79(1): 119–157.
• –––, 2010, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Parsell, M., 2008, “Pernicious Virtual Communities: Identity, Polarisation and the Web 2.0,” Ethics and Information Technology 10(1): 41–56.
• Puotinen, S., 2011, “Twitter Cares? Using Twitter to Care About, Care for and Care With Women Who Have Had Abortions,” International Review of Information Ethics, 16: 79–84.
• Rodogno, R., 2012, “Personal Identity Online,” Philosophy and Technology, 25(3): 309–328.
• Sharp, R., 2012, “The Obstacles Against Reaching the Highest Level of Aristotelian Friendship Online,” Ethics and Information Technology, 14(3): 231–239.
• Skog, D., 2011, “Ethical Aspects of Managing A Social Network Site: A Disclosive Analysis,” International Review of Information Ethics, 16: 27–32.
• Smith, A., 2011, “Why Americans Use Social Media,” Pew Internet and American Life Project,available online.
• Spinello, R.A., 2011, “Privacy and Social Networking Technology,” International Review of Information Ethics, 16: 41–46.
• Stokes, P., 2012, “Ghosts in the Machine: Do the Dead Live on in Facebook?,” Philosophy and Technology, 25(3): 363–379.
• Sunstein, C., 2008, “Democracy and the Internet,” in Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, J. van den Hoven and J. Weckert (eds.), Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 93–110.
• Tavani, H.T., 2005, “The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Condition: Do we Need a New Framework of Ethics?” in The Impact of the Internet on our Moral Lives, R.J. Cavalier (ed.), Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 215–237.
• –––, 2007, “Philosophical Theories of Privacy: Implications for an Adequate Online Privacy Policy,” Metaphilosophy, 38(1): 1–22.
• Turkle, S., 1995, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, New York: Simon and Schuster.
• –––, 2011, Alone Together: Why we Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, New York: Basic Books.
• Vallor, S., 2010, “Social Networking Technology and the Virtues,” Ethics and Information Technology, 12 (2): 157–170.
• –––, 2012, “Flourishing on Facebook: Virtue Friendship and New Social Media,” Ethics and Information Technology, 14(3): 185–199.
• van den Eede, Y., 2010, “‘Conversation of Mankind’ or ‘Idle Talk’?: A Pragmatist Approach to Social Networking Sites,” Ethics and Information Technology, 12(2): 195–206.
• Verbeek, P., 2005, What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency and Design, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
• Wandel, T. and Beavers, A., 2011, “Playing Around with Identity,” in Facebook and Philosophy, D.E. Wittkower (ed.), Chicago: Open Court, pp. 89–96.
• Wong, P.H., 2010, “The Good Life in Intercultural Information Ethics: A New Agenda, ” International Review of Information Ethics 13: 26–32.
• –––, 2012, “Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of Technology,” Philosophy and Technology, 25(1): 67–86.

Other Internet Resources

• Social Networking, Pew Research Center, Internet and American Life Project.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center