Antony Bryant
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199922604
- eISBN:
- 9780190652548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199922604.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Clarification of ideas around Big Data and the ways in which a clear understanding of GTM offers a sound basis for insightful use of Big Data. Anderson’s challenge – the 21st century version of naïve ...
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Clarification of ideas around Big Data and the ways in which a clear understanding of GTM offers a sound basis for insightful use of Big Data. Anderson’s challenge – the 21st century version of naïve Baonian induction. Digital data as a key source for researchers, but one to be used with care and the same criteria as other sources. Pathologies of Big Data analyses – apophenia; seeing patterns in everything. Mandelbrot’s abductive leap and the analysis of chaos. Metaphors in the understanding of data – mining, refining, construction, discovery. Leetaru’s Culturomics as an example of big data analytics; its strengths and its weaknesses. The continuing necessity for theoretical sensitivity. The paradox of big data – however much exists today, there will be far more by tomorrow.Less
Clarification of ideas around Big Data and the ways in which a clear understanding of GTM offers a sound basis for insightful use of Big Data. Anderson’s challenge – the 21st century version of naïve Baonian induction. Digital data as a key source for researchers, but one to be used with care and the same criteria as other sources. Pathologies of Big Data analyses – apophenia; seeing patterns in everything. Mandelbrot’s abductive leap and the analysis of chaos. Metaphors in the understanding of data – mining, refining, construction, discovery. Leetaru’s Culturomics as an example of big data analytics; its strengths and its weaknesses. The continuing necessity for theoretical sensitivity. The paradox of big data – however much exists today, there will be far more by tomorrow.
Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034357
- eISBN:
- 9780262332064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034357.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
What is big data, and what does it have to do with the humanities? The Snowden revelations have drawn attention to the opportunities and dangers to the gathering of large collections of data, ...
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What is big data, and what does it have to do with the humanities? The Snowden revelations have drawn attention to the opportunities and dangers to the gathering of large collections of data, including the collecting of text messages and email. Techniques that digital humanists have used in the study of individual texts are now being scaled up to study large collections. The digital humanities have a valuable historical and ethical perspective on big data analytics. Questions about what to do with too much information go back to Plato. Questions about the completeness of data, the usefulness of metadata, and the value of analytics can help us understand what big data can and cannot do. In particular we need to be careful of false positives, or false predictions based on data too large to check with other methods.Less
What is big data, and what does it have to do with the humanities? The Snowden revelations have drawn attention to the opportunities and dangers to the gathering of large collections of data, including the collecting of text messages and email. Techniques that digital humanists have used in the study of individual texts are now being scaled up to study large collections. The digital humanities have a valuable historical and ethical perspective on big data analytics. Questions about what to do with too much information go back to Plato. Questions about the completeness of data, the usefulness of metadata, and the value of analytics can help us understand what big data can and cannot do. In particular we need to be careful of false positives, or false predictions based on data too large to check with other methods.
Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190657932
- eISBN:
- 9780190657963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190657932.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
Chapter 8 lays out the political economic trade-offs in privacy protection designs and their implications for the types of privacy risks and constraints on innovations. To delve more deeply, it then ...
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Chapter 8 lays out the political economic trade-offs in privacy protection designs and their implications for the types of privacy risks and constraints on innovations. To delve more deeply, it then contrasts the U.S. and EU approaches. This leads into an analysis of the protracted U.S.–EU disputes on privacy safeguards and the efforts to forge international agreements on privacy protection forged at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The most promising initiatives will require a significant role for global civil society in governance. The three issues examined in Part III are interlinked. A robust trade regime for the cloud ecosystem requires that common international understandings about cybersecurity and digital privacy also be developed. However, tidy grand bargains are unnecessary to make progress on these linked issues.Less
Chapter 8 lays out the political economic trade-offs in privacy protection designs and their implications for the types of privacy risks and constraints on innovations. To delve more deeply, it then contrasts the U.S. and EU approaches. This leads into an analysis of the protracted U.S.–EU disputes on privacy safeguards and the efforts to forge international agreements on privacy protection forged at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The most promising initiatives will require a significant role for global civil society in governance. The three issues examined in Part III are interlinked. A robust trade regime for the cloud ecosystem requires that common international understandings about cybersecurity and digital privacy also be developed. However, tidy grand bargains are unnecessary to make progress on these linked issues.
Lorraine Daston (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226432229
- eISBN:
- 9780226432533
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226432533.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The natural and the human sciences depend on archives just as much as they depend on the laboratory, the observatory, the field, the library, and other sites of research. For sciences that track ...
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The natural and the human sciences depend on archives just as much as they depend on the laboratory, the observatory, the field, the library, and other sites of research. For sciences that track phenomena that unfold on a superhuman timescale, such as astronomy and paleonotology, the preservation and retrieval of remnants of the past, whether in the form of observations or fossils, is a precondition for present and future research. In other sciences, such as medicine or climatology, past data may suddenly become urgently relevant when a new pattern is detected: has this disease ever been observed before? Have rainfall patterns changed significantly in the past century? For still other sciences, such as genetics and molecular biology, genomic databases make new research programs possible. Because scientific archives are so costly in terms of the invested labor, money, and other resources, they are often the flashpoint of disciplinary disputes about access, usage, and maintenance. This volume explores the role of scientific archives in astronomy, ancient natural philosophy, medicine, genetics, paleontology, natural history, climatology, and history, as well as recent developments in the age of Big Data, including self-archiving, stop lists, and data mining.Less
The natural and the human sciences depend on archives just as much as they depend on the laboratory, the observatory, the field, the library, and other sites of research. For sciences that track phenomena that unfold on a superhuman timescale, such as astronomy and paleonotology, the preservation and retrieval of remnants of the past, whether in the form of observations or fossils, is a precondition for present and future research. In other sciences, such as medicine or climatology, past data may suddenly become urgently relevant when a new pattern is detected: has this disease ever been observed before? Have rainfall patterns changed significantly in the past century? For still other sciences, such as genetics and molecular biology, genomic databases make new research programs possible. Because scientific archives are so costly in terms of the invested labor, money, and other resources, they are often the flashpoint of disciplinary disputes about access, usage, and maintenance. This volume explores the role of scientific archives in astronomy, ancient natural philosophy, medicine, genetics, paleontology, natural history, climatology, and history, as well as recent developments in the age of Big Data, including self-archiving, stop lists, and data mining.
Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199315215
- eISBN:
- 9780190274290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199315215.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter considers privacy in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a supranational tribunal that enforces a kind of pan-European human rights law. The ECHR, established ...
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This chapter considers privacy in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a supranational tribunal that enforces a kind of pan-European human rights law. The ECHR, established in the immediate aftermath of World War II, has been a leading expositor of human rights values for over 60 years. Consideration of the privacy jurisprudence of the ECHR helps to illustrate some of the points of tangent, and points of departure, between the wider world and the United States. The standard narrative, that Europe prioritizes privacy, whereas the United States prioritizes speech, does hold true—but only to a point. Significant common ground exists between Europe and the United States. This chapter argues that in the age of Big Data, both Europe and the United States will have to use this common ground to find ways of reconciling privacy and speech in the service of democratic self-government.Less
This chapter considers privacy in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), a supranational tribunal that enforces a kind of pan-European human rights law. The ECHR, established in the immediate aftermath of World War II, has been a leading expositor of human rights values for over 60 years. Consideration of the privacy jurisprudence of the ECHR helps to illustrate some of the points of tangent, and points of departure, between the wider world and the United States. The standard narrative, that Europe prioritizes privacy, whereas the United States prioritizes speech, does hold true—but only to a point. Significant common ground exists between Europe and the United States. This chapter argues that in the age of Big Data, both Europe and the United States will have to use this common ground to find ways of reconciling privacy and speech in the service of democratic self-government.
Tim Unwin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198795292
- eISBN:
- 9780191836589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198795292.003.0006
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Information Technology
Technology is all too often seen as being inherently good, and there are powerful interests limiting the amount of attention paid to the darker side of ICTs and Internet access in particular. ...
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Technology is all too often seen as being inherently good, and there are powerful interests limiting the amount of attention paid to the darker side of ICTs and Internet access in particular. However, these darker aspects are crucial to understanding ICT4D, especially since they can more seriously impact the poor, both countries and people, than the rich. The following main challenges are covered in the chapter: privacy and security; the Surface Web and the Dark Web; cyber-security and resilience; negative aspects of the exploitation of Big Data and the abuse of people through social media; and the increasing dehumanization of people through the use of ICTs and the Internet of Things.Less
Technology is all too often seen as being inherently good, and there are powerful interests limiting the amount of attention paid to the darker side of ICTs and Internet access in particular. However, these darker aspects are crucial to understanding ICT4D, especially since they can more seriously impact the poor, both countries and people, than the rich. The following main challenges are covered in the chapter: privacy and security; the Surface Web and the Dark Web; cyber-security and resilience; negative aspects of the exploitation of Big Data and the abuse of people through social media; and the increasing dehumanization of people through the use of ICTs and the Internet of Things.
Michael J. Madison
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199972036
- eISBN:
- 9780199361908
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199972036.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law, Environmental and Energy Law
This chapter applies the knowledge commons research framework to research in modern astronomy. The case that it examines, Galaxy Zoo, is a leading example simultaneously of a successful global ...
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This chapter applies the knowledge commons research framework to research in modern astronomy. The case that it examines, Galaxy Zoo, is a leading example simultaneously of a successful global citizen science project; of peer production (sometimes known colloquially as crowdsourcing); and of data-intensive science, sometimes referred to as e-science or Big Data science. Galaxy Zoo scientists and volunteers have organized themselves and massive quantities of observational data about the universe in ways that are well suited to study as a case of commons. Galaxy Zoo has applied techniques of knowledge sharing and collaboration to produce unprecedented insights about galaxies. Examining Galaxy Zoo as a case of commons several additional questions to pursue in further commons investigation.Less
This chapter applies the knowledge commons research framework to research in modern astronomy. The case that it examines, Galaxy Zoo, is a leading example simultaneously of a successful global citizen science project; of peer production (sometimes known colloquially as crowdsourcing); and of data-intensive science, sometimes referred to as e-science or Big Data science. Galaxy Zoo scientists and volunteers have organized themselves and massive quantities of observational data about the universe in ways that are well suited to study as a case of commons. Galaxy Zoo has applied techniques of knowledge sharing and collaboration to produce unprecedented insights about galaxies. Examining Galaxy Zoo as a case of commons several additional questions to pursue in further commons investigation.
Patrick Dunleavy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447329367
- eISBN:
- 9781447329480
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447329367.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter explores how the revolutionary capacity of analysing Big Data to understand human behaviour is only just beginning to be exploited by social science, and it opens new opportunities for ...
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This chapter explores how the revolutionary capacity of analysing Big Data to understand human behaviour is only just beginning to be exploited by social science, and it opens new opportunities for discovery for policy makers. Again, this chapter will explore its social science foundations, some applications to policy and then address strengths and weaknesses.Less
This chapter explores how the revolutionary capacity of analysing Big Data to understand human behaviour is only just beginning to be exploited by social science, and it opens new opportunities for discovery for policy makers. Again, this chapter will explore its social science foundations, some applications to policy and then address strengths and weaknesses.
Sabina Leonelli
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226416335
- eISBN:
- 9780226416502
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226416502.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Chapter 6, which is targeted at anyone interested specifically in the life sciences, examines the implications of my analysis of data-centric science for biology as a discipline and for the knowledge ...
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Chapter 6, which is targeted at anyone interested specifically in the life sciences, examines the implications of my analysis of data-centric science for biology as a discipline and for the knowledge thus gained about living organisms. I consider three examples of successful data integration within the field of plant science, which I take to exemplify three different modes of data integration in biology as a whole, each with its own goals, means and ways of valuing and assessing data. I then use this analysis to stress how differences in how data are elected, analyzed and integrated may challenge existing conceptions of what counts as scientific knowledge in the first place. Finally, I highlight the opportunities offered by data-centric research as well as the dangers and misconceptions associated with big data rhetoric and practices, paying particular attention to related processes of inclusion and exclusion, and the ways in which data infrastructures can affect the visibility and future development of research traditions both within and beyond the life sciences.Less
Chapter 6, which is targeted at anyone interested specifically in the life sciences, examines the implications of my analysis of data-centric science for biology as a discipline and for the knowledge thus gained about living organisms. I consider three examples of successful data integration within the field of plant science, which I take to exemplify three different modes of data integration in biology as a whole, each with its own goals, means and ways of valuing and assessing data. I then use this analysis to stress how differences in how data are elected, analyzed and integrated may challenge existing conceptions of what counts as scientific knowledge in the first place. Finally, I highlight the opportunities offered by data-centric research as well as the dangers and misconceptions associated with big data rhetoric and practices, paying particular attention to related processes of inclusion and exclusion, and the ways in which data infrastructures can affect the visibility and future development of research traditions both within and beyond the life sciences.
Efthimios Parasidis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231171182
- eISBN:
- 9780231540070
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171182.003.0020
- Subject:
- Law, Medical Law
This chapter focuses on current and emerging issues related to post-market analysis of medical products. It argues that the future of the FDA as a public health agency is largely dependent on how ...
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This chapter focuses on current and emerging issues related to post-market analysis of medical products. It argues that the future of the FDA as a public health agency is largely dependent on how well the agency leverages its mandate and resources to address the limitations of pre-market review and expand the instances in which post-market analysis is required.Less
This chapter focuses on current and emerging issues related to post-market analysis of medical products. It argues that the future of the FDA as a public health agency is largely dependent on how well the agency leverages its mandate and resources to address the limitations of pre-market review and expand the instances in which post-market analysis is required.
Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199315215
- eISBN:
- 9780190274290
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199315215.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This concluding chapter brings this project to an end and draws on the iconic work of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn to mount a sustained argument that privacy and speech are, at bottom, ...
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This concluding chapter brings this project to an end and draws on the iconic work of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn to mount a sustained argument that privacy and speech are, at bottom, fundamentally complementary, rather than conflicting, human rights. Meiklejohn famously argued that free speech merited constitutional protection because it was integral to the process of democratic self-government. This chapter argues that in the era of Big Data, privacy is no less integral to democratic self-government than speech. It also considers the ways in which privacy and speech are more complementary then we commonly suppose them to be, because privacy and speech are both necessary conditions for democracy to function. This chapter also provides a summary and overview of some of the more salient potential lessons that a comparative law survey of privacy law provides.Less
This concluding chapter brings this project to an end and draws on the iconic work of Professor Alexander Meiklejohn to mount a sustained argument that privacy and speech are, at bottom, fundamentally complementary, rather than conflicting, human rights. Meiklejohn famously argued that free speech merited constitutional protection because it was integral to the process of democratic self-government. This chapter argues that in the era of Big Data, privacy is no less integral to democratic self-government than speech. It also considers the ways in which privacy and speech are more complementary then we commonly suppose them to be, because privacy and speech are both necessary conditions for democracy to function. This chapter also provides a summary and overview of some of the more salient potential lessons that a comparative law survey of privacy law provides.
János Kertész, János Török, Yohsuke Murase, Hang-Hyun Jo, and Kimmo Kaski
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198809456
- eISBN:
- 9780191847073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198809456.003.0005
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
The chapter “Multiplex Modeling of Society” discusses aspects of multiplexity in modeling society. Networks of social interactions are paradigmatic examples of multiplexity. It was recognized long ...
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The chapter “Multiplex Modeling of Society” discusses aspects of multiplexity in modeling society. Networks of social interactions are paradigmatic examples of multiplexity. It was recognized long ago by social scientists that the best way to interpret the network of different kinds of human relationships is a multiplex network, where each layer corresponds to a particular type of relationship, for example, between kin, friends, or co-workers. Until recently, only small social networks could be studied, due to the limited size of the datasets collected by traditional methods used in sociology. However, over the past 15 years, this situation has changed substantially due to the large scale of human sociality-related datasets becoming increasingly available. This chapter sums up the “stylized facts” obtained from Big Data, shows how Granovetterian structure can be modeled in a multiplex setup, and discusses modeling channel selection to analyze the sampling bias introduced by single-channel data.Less
The chapter “Multiplex Modeling of Society” discusses aspects of multiplexity in modeling society. Networks of social interactions are paradigmatic examples of multiplexity. It was recognized long ago by social scientists that the best way to interpret the network of different kinds of human relationships is a multiplex network, where each layer corresponds to a particular type of relationship, for example, between kin, friends, or co-workers. Until recently, only small social networks could be studied, due to the limited size of the datasets collected by traditional methods used in sociology. However, over the past 15 years, this situation has changed substantially due to the large scale of human sociality-related datasets becoming increasingly available. This chapter sums up the “stylized facts” obtained from Big Data, shows how Granovetterian structure can be modeled in a multiplex setup, and discusses modeling channel selection to analyze the sampling bias introduced by single-channel data.
Benjamin H. Bratton
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029575
- eISBN:
- 9780262330183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029575.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses the sixth and top layer in The Stack, the User layer. It describes how Users initiate chains of interaction up and down layers, from Interface to Earth and back again. It sees ...
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This chapter discusses the sixth and top layer in The Stack, the User layer. It describes how Users initiate chains of interaction up and down layers, from Interface to Earth and back again. It sees the “user” as a contemporary mediated image of the self, one that is often reduced to narrow and utilitarian frames, but also open to a diverse variety of possible human and non-human agencies. The user position can both over-individuate that agent’s sense of self and also radically multiply it. For example, data generated by Users and producing traces and shadows of their worldly transactions, initially creates a high-resolution portrait of a single user (for example as seen in the Quantified Self movement) but as overlapping external data streams are introduced, the coherency the user’s subjectivity is dissolved by the overdetermination by external relations and forces. Any durable politics of the User must understand this dynamic of platform sovereignty.Less
This chapter discusses the sixth and top layer in The Stack, the User layer. It describes how Users initiate chains of interaction up and down layers, from Interface to Earth and back again. It sees the “user” as a contemporary mediated image of the self, one that is often reduced to narrow and utilitarian frames, but also open to a diverse variety of possible human and non-human agencies. The user position can both over-individuate that agent’s sense of self and also radically multiply it. For example, data generated by Users and producing traces and shadows of their worldly transactions, initially creates a high-resolution portrait of a single user (for example as seen in the Quantified Self movement) but as overlapping external data streams are introduced, the coherency the user’s subjectivity is dissolved by the overdetermination by external relations and forces. Any durable politics of the User must understand this dynamic of platform sovereignty.
Elizabeth A. Wissinger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814794180
- eISBN:
- 9780814794197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814794180.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In this chapter, I situate the book’s findings about modeling, embodiment, and technology in the debates about affect stirred up by the age of the blink. It considers the theoretical ramifications of ...
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In this chapter, I situate the book’s findings about modeling, embodiment, and technology in the debates about affect stirred up by the age of the blink. It considers the theoretical ramifications of imaging regimes, glamour labor, digital culture, affectivity, and technological changes in early 21st century. Placing questions raised by looking at modeling work and its cultural impact addresses debates about the differences between affect and emotion. The chapter also treats debates in neuroscience about affect and affect studies, discussing the theories of Massumi, Thrift, Leys, Ledoux, and James-Lange.Less
In this chapter, I situate the book’s findings about modeling, embodiment, and technology in the debates about affect stirred up by the age of the blink. It considers the theoretical ramifications of imaging regimes, glamour labor, digital culture, affectivity, and technological changes in early 21st century. Placing questions raised by looking at modeling work and its cultural impact addresses debates about the differences between affect and emotion. The chapter also treats debates in neuroscience about affect and affect studies, discussing the theories of Massumi, Thrift, Leys, Ledoux, and James-Lange.
Shannon Vallor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190498511
- eISBN:
- 9780190498542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190498511.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
This chapter integrates the lessons of Part III regarding moral practice, and takes up the challenge of adapting the practice to contemporary technosocial needs—specifically, the need for the global ...
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This chapter integrates the lessons of Part III regarding moral practice, and takes up the challenge of adapting the practice to contemporary technosocial needs—specifically, the need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtues. The bulk of this chapter is a taxonomy of twelve such virtues: technomoral honesty, self-control, humility, justice, courage, empathy, care, civility, flexibility, perspective, magnanimity, and their integration in the comprehensive virtue of technomoral wisdom. While each virtue is examined against the background of prior moral philosophies and traditional cultures, the emphasis in chapter 6 is on adapting and redefining each of these virtues as called for by the acute technomoral needs of the global human family in the present. Various examples illustrate their relevance to concrete ethical challenges presented by today’s emerging technologies, from new social media and ‘Big Data’ to robotics and digital surveillance.Less
This chapter integrates the lessons of Part III regarding moral practice, and takes up the challenge of adapting the practice to contemporary technosocial needs—specifically, the need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtues. The bulk of this chapter is a taxonomy of twelve such virtues: technomoral honesty, self-control, humility, justice, courage, empathy, care, civility, flexibility, perspective, magnanimity, and their integration in the comprehensive virtue of technomoral wisdom. While each virtue is examined against the background of prior moral philosophies and traditional cultures, the emphasis in chapter 6 is on adapting and redefining each of these virtues as called for by the acute technomoral needs of the global human family in the present. Various examples illustrate their relevance to concrete ethical challenges presented by today’s emerging technologies, from new social media and ‘Big Data’ to robotics and digital surveillance.
