The Outlooks of Christian Morality in the Context of Intercultural Information Ethics
The Outlooks of Christian Morality in the Context of Intercultural Information Ethics

Summary/Abstract: The breakthrough and development of digital-electronic communication technology in recent decades is related to the changes of the so-called human lifeworld (Lebenswelt). These changes for some time are the area of multidisciplinary research of media theorists. The Oxford philosopher Luciano Floridi has coined the term “infosphere”1 to capture this point (Floridi, 1999). The Uruguay and German media philosopher Rafael Capurro - one of the most famous current theorists - has presented the theoretical model of intercultural information ethics as a constructive proposal to regulate and to control interactions in cyberspace ethically that is dealing with problematic field of media ethics. Intercultural information ethics addresses questions concerning these intersections such as: how far is the Internet changing local cultural values and traditional ways of life? How far do these changes affect the life and culture of future societies in a global and local sense?

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