Social Media and Living Well - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498508863 ISBN 13: 9781498508865

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

With each major technological shift, the question of well-being arises with new purpose. In this book, leading scholars in the philosophy and communication disciplines bring together their knowledge and expertise in an attempt to define what well-being means in this perpetually connected environment.

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Review:

We all want to live the good life, but living well starts to look different when we increasingly live through our devices and on our screens. What counts as being a happy and ethical person in the age of social media? How is a technologically mediated community or marketplace ethically different from those we inhabit face to face? Is an online deception is really a lie? Do internet memes create new stereotypes that undermine our ability to respect other members of society? Does a community of online friends and followers change the very nature of friendship? In Social Media and Living Well, Beasley and Haney collect nine thought-provoking attempts to consider questions like these. Policy makers, students of philosophy, and those who work in technology and media will all benefit from the opportunity this accessible and compact volume provides to learn how to think more clearly about our place in the digital world and about how to live with character when we increasingly have only 140 characters to work with.--Robert Barnard, University of Mississippi

About the Author:

Berrin A. Beasley is associate professor of communication at the University of North Florida. Mitchell Haney is associate professor of philosophy and co-director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics at the University of North Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1498508863
• ISBN 13: 9781498508865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Beasley Berrin A., Haney Mitchell R.