Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology - Couverture souple

Conwill, Louisa; Levis Scheirer, Megan; Scheirer, Walter J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798400800269

Editeur : Liturgical Press, 2024

Synopsis

2025 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Catholic Social Teaching

2025 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Pastoral Ministry -- Parish Life

Explore new modes of creation to bring virtue back into virtual spaces.

At its best, the internet channels the world into a global village of sorts, where digital citizens learn from each other, explore new modes of creation, and help others work through dilemmas in both physical and virtual spaces. Virtue in Virtual Spaces argues that the internet doesn't have to be the cultural wasteland of click-bait, partisan politics, and vulgar content that we see too often today.

Technology has tremendous potential for good because of the inherent goodness of human creation and creativity which can be achieved through the development and use of technology. The authors draw from writing on virtue ethics and Catholic Social Teaching to demonstrate this potential goodness of technology. Eight of the main themes of Catholic Social Teaching are used to build a framework for designing technology to promote human flourishing. In this book, readers will engage with the philosophies behind their favorite social media platforms, examine how the design features in these platforms shape habits and imagination, and gain dialogue-based skills to bring virtue back into virtual spaces.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Louisa Conwill is a PhD student in computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses include computer vision, human-computer interaction, and technology ethics, and she has a particular interest in how the teachings of the Catholic Church can inform technology ethics. A graduate of Brown University, Louisa worked as a software engineer for Amazon Alexa and served as a campus missionary with the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) before starting her graduate studies at Notre Dame.

Walter Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is a global technology leader, serving as the chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and as a board member of the Computer Vision Foundation. Scheirer is also a cultural critic and historian, commenting on the social context of emerging technologies from the realistic perspective of a technologist, and promoting technology development informed by Catholic Social Teaching that upholds the common good.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liturgical Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798400800269
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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