[P2P-F] The Ethics Of Sharing: Out Now

Wed Sep 21 20:05:30 CEST 2011

The current issue of the International Review of Information Ethics on the 
ethics of sharing, guest-edited by myself and Wolfgang Sützl, is available 
online now. 

With contributions by Clemens Apprich, Michel Bauwens, Vito Campanelli, 
Alessandro Delfanti, Marie-Luisa Frick/Andreas Oberprantacher, Mayo Fuster 
Morell, and Andras Wittel.

    … This issue brings together contributions towards an ethics of sharing 
that embed the new technological potentialities linking them to their 
actual social impact. In our understanding, information ethics “deals with 
ethical questions in the field of digital production and reproduction of 
phenomena and processes such as the exchange, combination and use of 
information.” So, the task of developing an ethics of sharing is both 
descriptive – helping us to understand the contemporary complexities of the 
ethics of exchanging information as it emerges from using digital 
technologies across a global range of social and cultural contexts – as 
well as normative – helping us to address blind-spots and clarifying 
possible ethical frameworks to address unresolved issues regarding these 
practices. And what do we and should we finally do with the truly 
impressive contributions gathered here to provide answers to the above 
named questions and guidelines for the outlined task? We share them with 
you leaving them to your appropriate use – whatever you may make out of it. 

complete IRIE issue 15/2011 in pdf format
http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/015/015_full.pdf

--- http://felix.openflows.com ----------------------- books out now:
*|Deep Search.The Politics of Search Beyond Google.Studienverlag 2009
*|Mediale Kunst/Media Arts Zurich.13 Positions.Scheidegger&Spiess2008
*|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 
*|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 