Orgad, Shani. „The Internet as a Moral Space: The Legacy of Roger Silverstone“. New Media & Society 9, Nr. 1 (Februar 2007): 33–41. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444807075202
Underlying his proposal for thinking about the media as environment is a concern with the moral consequences of this space: as is the case with the natural environment, the resources provided by the media environment can be used, misused and refused, distorted and enhanced (2006: 167). The ways in which these resources are used can pollute the media environment or contribute to its health. The Internet is one of the resources that constitute this environment and the way it is used by different actors can have detrimental or beneficial consequences for the environment it is a part of. At the same time, the Internet is affected by, and depends on, the way that the other resources are used. Silverstone’s work urges researchers to focus on these concerns in studying the Internet, to look “for a way forward in dealing with the palpable pollution and erosion of the global media environment.” (2006: 176-177). This opens up an agenda concerned with the possibilities of establishing the Internet as a moral space. (p.3)
- Ein Vergleich zwischen der natürlichen und der medialen Umwelt
- Beide stellen Ressourcen zur Verfügung, die verwendet und missbraucht werden können
- Das führt zu einer sauberen und gesunden – oder verschmutzten -- (medialen) Umwelt
- Das Ziel: ein richtiger Umgang mit der Verschmutzung der globalen Medienumwelt.
- Eine Weg: das Internet als moralischer Raum
This, of course, throws a critical light on much of the discussion on the Internet and CMC, which has been largely preoccupied with notions such as reciprocity, connections, exchange and interactivity, but, Silverstone (2003) argues, has barely considered the moral status of the communications that are generated online. He acknowledged that there has been some attempt to address the moral status of those who communicate with each other online, particularly in the work that looked at gender disguise and cross-dressing. However, he criticized the lack of attention to the ethical status of the kind of communications that are generated online: their ability to sustain responsibility and become a truly hospitable space, that is, a space which not only lets the other speak, but is underpinned by the requirement that the stranger should be heard (2006: 139). (p.4f)
- Die natürliche Umwelt ist kein moralischer Raum
- Was sind "moralische Räume",
- und inwiefern kann das Internet so etwas sein?
The concepts of sociability, interactivity, connectivity, and analyses of networks and strength of social ties have been particularly central in the study of online communication. They have usefully been applied to explain the characteristics of new forms of sociability that are generated in cyberspace, and how they may enhance, reinforce, challenge, complement, substitute or compensate for, other kinds and forms of mediated and face-to-face sociability. What these discussions often failed to question, Silverstone (2003) argues, is the moral status of the kind of communications that are generated online. Do these interactive spaces sustain responsibility in our dealings with mediated others? What are the consequences of features such as interactivity, weak and strong ties, and networking for the inclusion and exclusion of voices and experiences, and for the development of a sense of unconditional responsibility for mediated others behind the screen? These kinds of questions, Silverstone suggested, have been fundamentally overlooked in the study of the Internet. Thus, he urged, “we need to go beyond connection, if we are to pursue a grounded ethics” (2003: 17). Analyses of the Internet have often mistaken connection for closeness, and closeness for commitment, but “closeness, even intimacy, does not guarantee recognition or responsibility”(2003: 8). (p. 5)