Our Lives Online: The Ethics of Social Media

Our Lives Online:
The Ethics of Social Media

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Is it possible to use social media in an ethical and responsible way? Drawing on recent news stories of social media use (from Instagram influencers to YouTube stars to anyone who uses Discord, Snapchat, and Twitter), as well as scholarly examinations of social media design and the history of technology, this course will explore the myriad ethical and moral questions that confront anyone who uses social media platforms: How does the design of social media platforms shape our experience of them? What habits of mind does our use of social media encourage? How can we combat “digilante justice” via online social media mobs? How is social media use implicated in our understandings of privacy, empathy, justice, and responsibility? And how is social media transforming our democracy? Finally, what guidance can the Jewish tradition and its moral values offer in the age of social media?

Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on American history, society and culture, technology and culture, and feminism. Concurrently she is a columnist for Commentary magazine and one of the cohosts of The Commentary Magazine Podcast. She is also a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a senior editor in an advisory position at the New Atlantis. Her previous positions include editor of In Character, managing editor of the Weekly Standard, and distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress. Dr. Rosen is the author or coauthor of many books and book chapters. Her books include The Extinction of Experience (W. W. Norton, forthcoming); Acculturated: 23 Savvy Writers Find Hidden Virtue in Reality TV, Chick Lit, Video Games, and Other Pillars of Pop Culture (Templeton Press, 2011) with Naomi Schaefer Riley; My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood(PublicAffairs, 2005), which was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Washington Post; Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement(Oxford University Press, 2004); The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (AEI Press, 2001); and Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (AEI Press, 1999).

Our Lives Online: The Ethics of Social Media

Christine Rosen

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Our Lives Online:
The Ethics of Social Media