Dear Digital People blog readers:
The Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announces the upcoming First Bi-Annual Symposium on Ethics. The details for the event are as follows:
First Annual Ethics Center Symposium
“Digital People: Technology, Identity, and Social Change”
Student Activities Center (SAC), Salons A, B, and C
March 28, 2012 from 5:30pm – 9:00pm
If you wish to be formally invited to this event and have not yet been contacted about it in some way or another, please contact the Ethics Center’s program coordinator, Mary Jo Speer, at mjspeer@uncc.edu.
The purpose of this blog is to begin a lively discussion about the social, ethical, and legal implications of being “digital people.” Who are we as “digital people” and where are we going each time we update our Facebook status, tweet, blog and/or text? Is the digital revolution more or less significant than the invention of the printing press? Do we communicate less and less face-to-face because we communicate electronically more and more? Or will people always yearn for embodied contact? Who is storing information about us and for what purpose? Are digital people more or less free on account of electronic communication? Is privacy an obsolete value?
Over the next month or so expect this blog to be routinely updated and please let us know about anyone who wishes to join our blog. Melissa Wilson at avoiceforthevoiceless@gmail.com will facilitate your entrance.
Welcome,
Rosie Tong
Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Ethics
Department of Philosophy
Director, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics
From what I can remember over my short years around is that I HAD to be with others to communicate. I feel that that "contact" has diminished. Then we couldn't "hide" - now we can. In my opinion, there is no substitute for eye-to-eye, touch-to-touch interaction and in absence of these two our society is the poorer for it. Some now have hundreds of friends. Really?
ReplyDeletePrivacy? In the fifties, did we talk about privacy the way we do to-day? If not, were we more secure? If so, is it that the more the subject comes to the fore the more insecure we are? And if so, "who" stimulates that insecurity?
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