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BIOETIČKE KONOTACIJE INTERNETA
BIOETHICAL ASPECTS OF INTERNET

Author(s): Silvana Karačić, Ana Jeličić, Suzana Vuletić
Subject(s): Media studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Katolički bogoslovni fakultet u Đakovu
Keywords: Internet; digital generation; cyberspace; misuse of the Internet; Internet violence; cybercriminal; safety guidelines; responsible approach; media ethics;

Summary/Abstract: We live in so called »IT« society in which the rapid development of digital technology and access to the global Internet network have influenced the life of contemporary humans. Providing many opportunities: new ways of cognition, information, management, communication, socializing and entertaining, the habitual patterns have moved to imaginary cyberspace. It provokes many questions which are coincidencing with actual bioethical dilemmas of internet connotation: creation of new psychological space, modified perception of verity, virtualization of reality, fragmentation of personality, simulated identity, alienated nature of interpersonal communication and the new modes of expression which tends to raise an individualistic alienation and to develop an egocentrism.

  • Issue Year: 22/2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 525-558
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Croatian