The Ethos of Digital Environments; Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy; First Edition

While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a
great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of
ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently
visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished and
emerging authors working at the intersections of philosophy, literary theory,
media, and technology does not intend to fix new moral rules. Instead, the
volume explores the ethos of digital environments, asking how we can orient
ourselves in them and inviting us to renewed moral reflection in the face of
dilemmas they entail. The authors show how contemporary digital technologies
model our perception, narration as well as our conceptions of truth,
and investigate the ethical, moral, and juridical consequences of making
public and societal infrastructures computational. They argue that we must
make the structures of the digital environments visible and learn to care for
them.