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Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest

Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest

Luciano Floridi
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781605661421|ISBN10: 1605661422|EISBN13: 9781605661438
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-142-1.ch015
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Floridi, Luciano. "Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest." Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces, edited by Panayiotis Zaphiris and Chee Siang Ang, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 247-258. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-142-1.ch015

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Floridi, L. (2009). Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest. In P. Zaphiris & C. Ang (Eds.), Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces (pp. 247-258). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-142-1.ch015

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Floridi, Luciano. "Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest." In Cross-Disciplinary Advances in Human Computer Interaction: User Modeling, Social Computing, and Adaptive Interfaces, edited by Panayiotis Zaphiris and Chee Siang Ang, 247-258. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-142-1.ch015

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Abstract

The article argues that Information Ethics (IE) can provide a successful approach for coping with the challenges posed by our increasingly globalized reality. After a brief review of some of the most fundamental transformations brought about by the phenomenon of globalization, the article distinguishes between two ways of understanding Global Information Ethics, as an ethics of global communication or as a global-information ethics. It is then argued that cross-cultural, successful interactions among micro and macro agents call for a high level of successful communication, that the latter requires a shared ontology friendly towards the implementation of moral actions, and that this is provided by IE. There follows a brief account of IE and of the ontic trust, the hypothetical pact between all agents and patients presupposed by IE.

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