TY - BOOK T1 - Ethics in an age of technology: The Gifford Lectures 1989-1991 Y1 - 1993 A1 - Barbour, I. G. KW - ethics KW - Gifford KW - technology AB - The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ranks with such Gifford lecturers as William James, Carl Jung, and Reinhold Neibuhr. In 1989 Barbour presented his first series of Gifford Lectures, published as Religion in an Age of Science, in which he explored the challenges to religion brought by the methods and theories of contemporary science. In 1990, he returned to Scotland to present this second series, dealing with ethical issues arising from technology and exploring the relationship of human and environmental values to science, philosophy, and religion and showing why these values are relevant to technological policy decisions. "Modern technology has brought increased food production, improved health, higher living standards, and better communications," writes Barbour. "But its environmental and human costs have been increasingly evident." Most of the destructive impacts, Barbour points out, come not from dramatic accidents but from the normal operation of agricultural and industrial systems, which deplete resources and pollute air, water, and land. Other technologies have unprecedented power to affect people and other forms of life distant in time and space (through global warming and genetic engineering, for example). Large-scale technologies are also expensive and centralized, accelerating the concentration of economic and political power and widening the gaps between rich and poor nations. In examining the conflicting ethics and assumptions that lead to divergent views of technology, Barbour analyzes three social values: justice, participatory freedom, and economic development, and defends such environmental principles as resource sustainability, environmental protection, and respect for all forms of life. He presents case studies of agricultural technology, energy policy, and the use of computers. Looking to the future, he describes the effects of global climate change, genetic engineering, and nuclear war and cautions that we must control our new powers over life and death more effectively. Finally, he concludes by focusing on appropriate technologies, individual life-styles, and sources of change: education, political action, response to crisis, and alternative visions of the good life. PB - HarperSanFrancisco. CY - San Francisco UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=7XVa-PqK_8sC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Postcyborg ethics: A new way to speak of technology? JF - EME: Exploration in Media Ecology Y1 - 2006 A1 - Heidi Campbell KW - cyborg KW - ethics KW - religion KW - technology VL - 15 UR - http://www.media-ecology.org/publications/Explorations_Media_Ecology/v5n4.html IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Message of the Medium: The Challenge of the Internet to the Church and Other Communities JF - Studies in Christian Ethics Y1 - 2000 A1 - Clough, D. KW - Chrisitan KW - ethics KW - internet AB - Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee. It is lighted neither by window nor by lamp, yet it is filled with a soft radiance. There are no apertures for ventilation, yet the air is fresh. There are no musical instruments, and yet, at the moment that my meditation opens, this room is throbbing with melodious sounds. An armchair is in the centre, by its side a reading-desk — that is all the furniture. And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh — a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus. It is to her that the little room belongs. VL - 13 UR - http://sce.sagepub.com/content/13/2/91.abstract IS - 2 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Ethics in Internet Y1 - 2002 A1 - Pontifical Council For Social Communications KW - Catholic KW - Christianity KW - Communication KW - ethics KW - internet KW - media KW - Pontifical UR - www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pccs_doc_20020228_ethics-internet_en.html ER - TY - ICOMM T1 - Ethics in Internet Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pontifical Council for Social Communications KW - ethics KW - internet UR - http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_20020228_church-internet_en.html ER - TY - JOUR T1 - EXPERIMENTS IN DEVOTION ONLINE: THE YOUTUBE KHUṬBA JF - International Journal of Middle East Studies Y1 - 2012 A1 - Charles Hirschkind KW - ethics KW - internet KW - Islam KW - Sermons KW - YouTube AB - This paper explores what I call “online experiments in ethical affect” through an analysis of one popular Islamic genre: the short video segments of Friday sermons (khuṭub, s. khuṭba) placed on the video-sharing website YouTube. In my discussion of this media form, I give particular attention to the kind of devotional discourse and ethical socius that is enacted online around these taped performances: notably, the practices of appending written comments to specific videos, offering responses to comments left by others or criticisms directed at either the preacher or other commentators, and the act of creating links between khuṭba pages and other web-based content. In examining these practices, I want to look at the way some of the norms of ethical and devotional comportment associated with the khuṭba in the mosque carry over to the Internet context of khuṭba listening/viewing while also engendering novel forms of pious interaction, argument, and listening. VL - 44 UR - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8480771&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S002074381100122X IS - 1 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Ethical Issues in the Study of Religion and New Media T2 - Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mark Johns KW - ethics KW - Internet Studies JF - Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds PB - Routledge CY - London UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=KtEXQLTF2iYC&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=Digital+Religion+Ethics++Mark+Johns&source=bl&ots=Bo3bWHZBZH&sig=4-VywE82Pr8PSyvyAXxMu4XZxN0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kI4EUcWhJJTOyAG644CoBg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Cyberethics: New challenges or old problems JF - Concilium Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ottmar, J. KW - cyberspace KW - ethics VL - 1 ER -