Technomoral Virtues in New Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities
Emerging technologies, particularly in social media, have a profound impact on our moral character. This content delves into the concept of technomoral virtues and their role in shaping our interactions online. It discusses the challenges posed by frictionless interactions, media multitasking, and the need to cultivate civic virtues in the digital realm. The exploration prompts reflection on how current social media platforms can be aligned with technomoral ideals to foster wiser and more virtuous technosocial practices.
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VALLOR CHAPTERS 7-8 3/25/2021
CH. 7: NEW SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE TECHNOMORAL VIRTUES OVERVIEW Social media can enable or frustrate our efforts to become virtuous How do emerging technologies shape our moral character for the better or worse? How can technomoral virtues help us to develop better technologies and wiser technosocial practices?
CH. 7: NEW SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE TECHNOMORAL VIRTUES THE VIRTUES OF COMMUNICATIVE FRICTION Networked individualism and social capital Life satisfaction vs human flourishing Frictionless interactions Facebook Home ad Absence of virtue-inducing constraints Individual and concrete contexts Question: Has our moral character in traditional communication, particularly with respect to technomoral virtues like care and civility, been significantly influenced by the frictionless interactions we pursue on social media?
CH. 7: NEW SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE TECHNOMORAL VIRTUES MEDIA MULTITASKING AND TECHNOMORAL VIRTUES Self-control: Sticky digital media design Collective cultural agreements to seek healthier digital norms Demanding useful tools that do not debilitate us Attention Media multitasking Empathic concern Question: Given the effect that media multitasking has on moral attention, how concerning is its spread into every facet of life? Can digital media instead be used to help positively facilitate relational understanding?
CH. 7: NEW SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE TECHNOMORAL VIRTUES NEW SOCIAL MEDIA AND CIVIC VIRTUES Technologies are extensions of the human value contexts in which they operate Ferguson Filter bubbles, cyberbalkanization, and echo chambers Spiral of silence Obstacle to cultivation of technomoral virtues central to civic flourishing Question: How can we cultivate these civic virtues through current social media platforms? What changes would need to be made to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to bring them closer in line with the these virtues? Question: Given their sticky designs and existing reputations, would we need to start from the bottom up and create new platforms altogether to facilitate wiser, more virtuous technosocial practices? Are current social media platforms too far removed from technomoral ideals to rectify?
CH. 8: SURVEILLANCE AND THE EXAMINED LIFE OVERVIEW Panopticism: employs political, material, psychological, logical, and economic techniques to establish maximally effective and far-ranging forms of social discipline with minimal obtrusiveness, expenditure, force, and risk The Cult of Transparency: the interests of justice and equality can only be served by a culture in which their violations can be openly observe by anyone
CH. 8: SURVEILLANCE AND THE EXAMINED LIFE VIRTUE IN THE PANOPTICON Sousveillance Dataveillance Big Brother, hacktivism, lateral surveillance, and self-surveillance Transparency as the predominant cultural value Encouraging honesty through surveillance Big Data and the illusion of technological neutrality Question: Is society heading towards a type of Panopticon, where every aspect of our lives is surveilled, given how much of our personal data is collected?
CH. 8: SURVEILLANCE AND THE EXAMINED LIFE THE QUANTIFIED SELF Self-examination - how can we best secure the good life for ourselves and others? Technology-driven habits of self-examination Expanding the range of self-surveillance Directing the results of self-examination Attention to the specifically moral features of one s character Question: Is there value in quantified self-surveillance? Can the quantified self be used to examine our moral habits and virtues or does it detract from traditional reflective self-examination?
