"I am delighted to offer my highest praise to Dean Cocking and
Jeroen van den Hoven's brilliant new book, Evil Online. The
confrontation between good and evil occupies a central place in the
challenges facing our human nature, and this creative investigation
into the spread of evil by means of all-powerful new technologies
raises fundamental questions about our morality and values. Cocking
and Van den Hoven's account of the moral fog of evil forces us to
face both the demons within each of us as well as the demons all
around us. In the end, we are all enriched by their perceptive
analyses." —Phil Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, Stanford University Principal Investigator, Stanford
Prison Experiment "The internet offers new and deeply concerning
opportunities for immorality, much of it shocking and extreme. This
volume explains with great insight and clarity the corrupting
nature of the internet and the moral confusion it has produced. It
will play a vital role in the growing debate about how to balance
the benefits of the internet against the risks it poses to all of
us. Evil Online is an excellent book." —Roger
Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford We
now live in an era defined by the ubiquity of the internet. From
our everyday engagement with social media to trolls on forums and
the emergence of the dark web, the internet is a space
characterized by unreality, isolation, anonymity, objectification,
and rampant self-obsession—the perfect breeding ground for new,
unprecedented manifestations of evil. Evil Online is
the first comprehensive analysis of evil and moral character in
relation to our increasingly online lives. Chapters consider
traditional ideas around the phenomenon of evil in moral philosophy
and explore how the dawn of the internet has presented
unprecedented challenges to older theoretical approaches. Cocking
and Van den Hoven propose that a growing sense of moral
confusion—moral fog—pushes otherwise ordinary, normal people
toward evildoing, and that values basic to moral life such as
autonomy, intimacy, trust, and privacy are put at risk by online
platforms and new technologies. This new theory of evildoing offers
fresh insight into the moral character of the individual, and opens
the way for a burgeoning new area of social thought. A
comprehensive analysis of an emerging and disturbing social
phenomenon, Evil Online examines the morally troubling
aspects of the internet in our society. Written not only for
academics in the fields of philosophy, psychology, information
science, and social science, Evil Online is accessible
and compelling reading for anyone interested in understanding the
emergence of evil in our digitally-dominated world.
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