[syndicate] information ethics - and angels

[clement Thomas]

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From: "Claudia Westermann" <media at ezaic.de>
To: "syndicate" <syndicate at anart.no>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:22 PM
Subject: [syndicate] information ethics - and angels


> http://icie.zkm.de/research
>
> Introduction
>
> The study of information ethics within different cultural traditions is an
> open task. The following text gives some hints about the Western
tradition.
>
> II.1. The Western Tradition
>
> In the Western tradition information ethics has its roots in the oral
> culture of ancient Greece. Agora (marketplace and meeting place) and
> freedom of speech (Greek: parrhesia) were essential to Athenian democracy.
> The cynics cultivated freedom of speech as a special form of expression.
> Socrates (469-399 B.C.) practised his thinking in public places and never
> published his arguments. Plato (427-347 B.C.) discusses in his dialogues
> the transition from an oral to a written culture. Under the influence of
> Christianity a book culture was developed which was mainly centered on one
> book, namely the Bible.
> The invention of printing by Gutenberg in 1455 and the Reformation, which
> profited from it, brought back, in the Modern period, the idea of freedom
> of communication, which implied the freedom of communicating ideas to
> others not just in a written but in a printed form.
> The French Revolution brought about the transformation of the private
> libraries owned by nobility as well as by the church into common property.
> Projects like the one of the French Encyclopédie and the public access to
> libraries created a new awareness of freedom of information which
> culminated in the principle of freedom of the press as one of the
> foundations of modern democracies.
> The Western tradition of information ethics from ancient Greece until the
> beginning of the 20th century is characterized by two ideas:
>
> - freedom of speech,
> - freedom of printed works and particularly freedom of the press.
> A third element arises now, in the age of a networked world of electronic
> information, namely
>
> - freedom of access.
>
> II.2. Other Traditions
> Contributions are welcome!
>
> [..... ? .... ) ....     ]
>
> III.5. Prospects
>
> All these questions become more critical as a result of the globalization
> of information in the Internet. Questions arise such as: Who shuld control
> the information coming from another country and/or another culture? How
can
> national laws, being geographically limited, meet the challenges of
> cyberspace?
> Solutions to these questions may be found at different levels:
> - Self-control: this is the ethical solution propagated by the Internet
> community particularly through the use of filtering software. Its basic
and
> most primitive form is the netiquette. Other kinds of self-controll are
for
> instance operated within newsgroups through moderators. Sanctions,
> beginning with flaming, through spam, may reach the level of a mail bomb.
> Finally there are the cyber angels who take care of (free) decency
> self-control in the net.
>
>
> [ ... ) ... lovely ... what a relief ... does someone apply for the angel
> job ? .... hmmmm ...*** ...  .. does anyone know if angels are allowed to
> spam ? ..
> frederic ? .. I just think we could need an angel handbook with a very
well
> organized index ... you like writing, don't you ?
> someone else ? ... ]