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How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they
encounter when they share and use online content and participate in
online communities. Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on
Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes
an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in a
multiplayer online game routinely cheat new players by selling them
worthless virtual accessories for high prices. In Disconnected,
Carrie James examines how young people and the adults in their
lives think about these sorts of online dilemmas, describing
ethical blind spots and disconnects. Drawing on extensive
interviews with young people between the ages of 10 and 25, James
describes the nature of their thinking about privacy, property, and
participation online. She identifies three ways that young people
approach online activities. A teen might practice self-focused
thinking, concerned mostly about consequences for herself; moral
thinking, concerned about the consequences for people he knows; or
ethical thinking, concerned about unknown individuals and larger
communities. James finds, among other things, that youth are often
blind to moral or ethical concerns about privacy; that attitudes
toward property range from "what's theirs is theirs" to "free for
all"; that hostile speech can be met with a belief that online
content is "just a joke"; and that adults who are consulted about
such dilemmas often emphasize personal safety issues over online
ethics and citizenship. Considering ways to address the digital
ethics gap, James offers a vision of conscientious connectivity,
which involves ethical thinking skills but, perhaps more important,
is marked by sensitivity to the dilemmas posed by online life, a
motivation to wrestle with them, and a sense of moral agency that
supports socially positive online actions.
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