Cybernetics, Cyberethics, and Technologically Enhanced Learning

Conventions Of Cyberethics

In the case of cyberethics, attention is normally drawn to such particulars as: computer hacking and spreading malware; personal rights to privacy and intellectual property; equality of access and the “digital divide;” net neutrality and freedom of information; licit and illicit gambling, prostitution, human and drug trafficking; online extortion, stalking and bullying; industrial espionage and terrorism; and any number of other issues from deploying duplicitous data on dating websites to “revenge porn,” or from anonymously posting disrespectful and demeaning opinions on social media to intentionally degrading political discourse by “trolling” venues for sharing news and opinions. Most of these or their analogs are, of course, already concerns in low-tech society, but they take on added significance and meaning when projected from what passes for the “real” world into the high-tech multiple platforms of cyberspace (Dudley, Braman, & Vincenti, 2012).