Beer Cans and Cancel Culture: The Ethics of the Carson King Case [PDF]
Fake News, Fake Porn, and AI: “Deepfakes” and the Ethics of Faked Videos [PDF]
The Different Species of the Online Catfish: The Circle and the Ethics of Online Identity [PDF]
Misinformation, Social Media, and the Price of Political Persuasion: Examining Twitter’s Decision to Ban Purchased Political Advertisements [PDF]
Written In Only to Be Excluded? The Ethics of Screenwriting and Diversity in Game of Thrones [PDF]
Politics in the Age of Digital Information Overload: Facebook’s Policy to Allow Misleading Political Ads [PDF]
Fighting (Online) Fire with Fire? The Complex Ethics of Online Harassment and Feminist Counterspeech [PDF]
Are there Bigger Fish to Fry in the Struggle for Animal Rights? PETA’s Campaign against Anti-Animal Language [PDF]
Too Much of a Good Thing? Anonymity, Doxing, and the Ethics of Reddit [PDF]
Images of Death in the Media: Journalism and the Ethics of Using the Dead [PDF]
Matters of Facebook Live or Death: The Ethical Challenges of Live Internet Broadcasting [PDF]
Greta Thunberg and Her Harsh Critics: The Ethics of Criticizing Children in the Public Sphere [PDF]
Ethics and the Tweeter in Chief: The Ethics of the Presidential Communication [PDF]
Artificial Intelligence and Online Hate Speech: From Tay AI to Automated Content Moderation [PDF]
This Bake Sale Got Burnt: Free Speech and the Ethics of Protest [PDF]
Bullying our First Amendment? [PDF]
Boldly Going Where Studios Have Gone Before: Fan Fiction and the Ethics of Imitation [PDF]
Values Preserved in Stone: The Ethics of Confederate Memorials [PDF]
To Catfish or Not to Catfish? The Ethics of Online Deception [PDF]
How Can I Be So Mean to Myself? Digital Self-Harm and the Ethics of Social Media [PDF]
Sacking Social Media in College Sports: The Ethics of College Athletes’ Use of Social Media [PDF]
No Comment: Online Comment Sections and Democratic Discourse [PDF]
When Actors Become Characters: The Ethics of Digital Real-Person Fan Fiction [PDF]
Filtering Out Cyberbullying: The Ethics of Instagram’s Anti-Bullying Filters [PDF]
“Some of My Best Friends are Internet Vigilantes”: Racists Getting Fired and the Ethics of Fighting Racism [PDF]
Is It Only A Game? The Ethics of First-Person Shooter Video Games [PDF]
Defending Freedom of Tweets? The Ethics of Athletes and Controversial Tweets [PDF]
“One Does Not Simply Create a Meme”: The Ethics of Internet Memes [PDF]
Photographic Art and Ethics: When Does Artistic Creativity Become the Exploitation of Children? [PDF]
Halloween Hijinks and Internet Shaming: The Ethics of Racially Insensitive Costumes [PDF]
Anti-Vax Censorship on Social Media: Limiting or Lifesaving? [PDF]
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