IB Digital Society Topic 2.7A Ethical Distinctions in Digital Society Revision Notes (SL/HL)

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2.7A Ethical Distinctions in Digital Society

Values and Ethics as a Concept

Values and ethics is the thread of right and wrong through everything digital society studies. Values = what a person or group treats as important; ethics = the reasoning used to decide what is right, fair, or just.
The two are linked but do separate jobs. A value is what you care about (privacy, honesty, safety); ethics is working out what to do when those values guide a choice, especially when they pull in different directions.
Values are invisible until they collide: you notice you hold both privacy and safety dear only when an app asks to track your location for security. In digital society the clash is often built into a product's design, so whoever designs the product sets which value wins for everyone who uses it.
Operate at four levels: personal, group, collective (society), and professional (codes a profession expects). Digital systems force all four to collide, often at global scale.

Analogy

Analogy

Values are the ingredients, ethics is the recipe: the ingredients are what you have, the recipe is how you decide to combine them.
Two cooks with the same ingredients can still make very different dishes.

Three Ethical Frameworks

Three frameworks matter most; each asks a different question about the same choice: what are the results, what is the rule, and what kind of person does this make me?
Consequentialism judges by outcomes; its best-known form, utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill, 1800s), seeks the greatest good for the greatest number.
1. Question: what happens if we do this?
Deontology (Kant) ignores results and judges by whether an action follows a duty or rule; some acts (lying, treating a person merely as a means) are wrong in themselves.

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2.7A Ethical Distinctions in Digital Society

Values and Ethics as a Concept

Values and ethics is the thread of right and wrong through everything digital society studies. Values = what a person or group treats as important; ethics = the reasoning used to decide what is right, fair, or just.
The two are linked but do separate jobs. A value is what you care about (privacy, honesty, safety); ethics is working out what to do when those values guide a choice, especially when they pull in different directions.
Values are invisible until they collide: you notice you hold both privacy and safety dear only when an app asks to track your location for security. In digital society the clash is often built into a product's design, so whoever designs the product sets which value wins for everyone who uses it.
Operate at four levels: personal, group, collective (society), and professional (codes a profession expects). Digital systems force all four to collide, often at global scale.

Analogy

Analogy

Values are the ingredients, ethics is the recipe: the ingredients are what you have, the recipe is how you decide to combine them.
Two cooks with the same ingredients can still make very different dishes.

Three Ethical Frameworks

Three frameworks matter most; each asks a different question about the same choice: what are the results, what is the rule, and what kind of person does this make me?
Consequentialism judges by outcomes; its best-known form, utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill, 1800s), seeks the greatest good for the greatest number.
1. Question: what happens if we do this?
Deontology (Kant) ignores results and judges by whether an action follows a duty or rule; some acts (lying, treating a person merely as a means) are wrong in themselves.

Definition

Paywall

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Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

IB Digital Society 2.7A Ethical Distinctions in Digital Society Notes

Topic 1 - Introduction - Digital Society1 subtopic

Topic 2 - Concepts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 3 - Content - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 4 - Contexts - Digital Society7 subtopics

Topic 5 - Challenges and Interventions - Digital Society (HL)3 subtopics

2.7A Ethical Distinctions in Digital Society

Values and Ethics as a Concept

Three Ethical Frameworks

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2.7A Ethical Distinctions in Digital Society

Values and Ethics as a Concept

Three Ethical Frameworks

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