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Title [sv]
Digital mediemoral
Title [en]
Digital media morality
Abstract [sv]
Tidigare forskning har visat att speciella etiska principer, och därmed en speciell moral, har utvecklats kring användning av digitala medier. Värden som frihet, kreativitet, individualism står här i centrum liksom passion, hedonism, m.m. Dessa kunskaper bygger dock huvudsakligen på analyser av små, specifika grupper av s.k. early adopters; hackers, fildelare, dem som laddar ned musik m.m., varav nästan samtliga dessutom främst är ungdomsgrupper. Samtidigt breder användningen av digitala medier snabbt ut sig bland befolkningen i stort, och digital medieanvändning är idag en rutiniserad vardagssyssla för ett brett och varierat skikt av den svenska befolkningen. Detta forskningsprojekt syftar till att brett studera det digitala mediebrukets moraliska dimensioner i ett av medier genomsyrat vardagsliv. Mer precist handlar det om att undersöka de värden, sociala normer och praktiker som omgärdar människors användning av digitala medier och deras umgänge med andra via dessa medier. Vi intresserar oss här både för mediebrukets etiska dimensioner, dvs. de värden och normer som omgärdar användningen av digitala medier, liksom de moraliska dimensioner som uppstår i våra vardagspraktiker. För att få en såväl bred som djup förståelse för detta kombinerar vi kvantitativa analyser av ett representativt urval av svenska folket med fördjupande kvalitativa studier med mindre grupper av användare.
Abstract [en]
We know from earlier research that new ethical principles, and thus a specific morality, have developed in relation to new, digital, media. Values such as freedom (of speech), creativity, and individualism are central here, as are passion, hedonism, etc. These results, however, are mostly based on analyses of small, specific groups of early adopters; hackers, file sharers, those who download music, etc, groups that almost exclusively are based on young people. At the same time, usage of digital media is quickly expanding in the population at large, and different and varied groups of people today use digital media as an integrated part of their everyday lives. This research project aims at studying the moral dimensions of digital media use, in a media-saturated everyday life. This means, more specifically, to analyze ethical and moral dimensions of digital media use; that is values and norms as well as questions of morality that appear in specific everyday life situations. As we strive towards both broad and deep understanding of this phenomenon we will combine quantitative analyses of a statistically significant sample of Swedes with qualitative analyses of smaller and more specific groups.
Publications (8 of 8) Show all publications
Bengtsson, S. (2018). Ethics and morality beyond the Actor-Network: Doing the right thing in an algorithmic culture. In: : . Paper presented at 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, May 24-28, 2018..
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ethics and morality beyond the Actor-Network: Doing the right thing in an algorithmic culture
2018 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The growing governance and authority of algorithms and the rapid emergence of the ‘Internet of Things’, has intensified attention to the relationship between humans and machines, and to the ethics of everyday life with technologies. This raises a lot of questions: How should we live with technologies? Can humans make decisions? The question on the authority of humans is clearly debatable. In this paper I discuss the underlying premises for the ethical standpoint of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and explore other existing alternatives. I begin by looking into the basic premises of ANT, and the assumptions of ‘the human’ and of ethics it comprises. I then explore the notion of a ‘disclosive’ ethics and continue by penetrating the relation between agency and ethics in ANT. Following from this I discuss various different approaches to ethics, and how we can still keep a human notion of ethics in an algorithmic culture.

Keywords
ethics, morality, ANT, media, algorithms
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34284 (URN)80/3.1.1/2013 (Local ID)80/3.1.1/2013 (Archive number)80/3.1.1/2013 (OAI)
Conference
68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, May 24-28, 2018.
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Available from: 2018-01-18 Created: 2018-01-18 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, S. (2018). Ethics Exists in Communication: Human‐machine ethics beyond the Actor‐Network. London: London School of Economics and Political Science
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ethics Exists in Communication: Human‐machine ethics beyond the Actor‐Network
2018 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The growing governance of algorithms and the rapid emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ‘Internet of Things’, has intensified discussions about the relationship between humans and machines, and the ethics of everyday life with technologies. It raises questions such as: How should we live with technologies? Can humans still make decisions? The earlier taken for granted authority of humans is clearly debatable, and sometimes also dismissed, particularly within Actor Network Theory (ANT). In this paper, I look into the basic premises of the ethics of ANT, explore suggested ethical perspectives within ANT such as ‘disclosive’ ethics, and continue by penetrating the relation between agency and ethics, as well as between morality and ethics in ANT. ANT is further discussed as on the one hand a sociological perspective and on the other hand an ethical approach. Based on this analysis I propose the anthropological perspective of an ‘ethics of the ordinary’ as a possible way to learn from the basic premises of ANT while maintaining a human notion of ethics in a technology‐conflated culture.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: London School of Economics and Political Science, 2018. p. 21
Series
Media@LSE Working Paper Series, ISSN 1474-1938 ; 59
Keywords
Ethics, Communication, Media Technologies, Actor-Network Theory
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37239 (URN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2019-01-10 Created: 2019-01-10 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, S. & Johansson, B. (2018). Media Micro-Generations: How New Technologies Change Our Media Morality. Nordicom Review, 39(2), 95-110
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Media Micro-Generations: How New Technologies Change Our Media Morality
2018 (English)In: Nordicom Review, ISSN 1403-1108, E-ISSN 2001-5119, Vol. 39, no 2, p. 95-110Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article proposes and explores the notion of “media micro-generations”. Based on a survey of values and norms in relation to media-related behaviour in Sweden, we identify statistically significant media micro-generations. Through an analysis of the technologies that were introduced during the formative years of different media micro-generations, we propose that media micro-generations are formed with the introduction of new media technologies. Thus, the existence of media micro-generations illustrates how rapid trans- formations of media technologies can shape the moral notions of narrow age groups. It also explains why many earlier studies have detected a rather large span of years (1970-1985, in between the TV generation and the internet generation) during which no generational identity seems to have been formed.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nordicom, 2018
Keywords
media micro-generation, media technology, morality, manners of politeness, decorum
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-36432 (URN)10.2478/nor-2018-0014 (DOI)000457783800007 ()2-s2.0-85067840767 (Scopus ID)80/3.1.1/2013 (Local ID)80/3.1.1/2013 (Archive number)80/3.1.1/2013 (OAI)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2018-09-24 Created: 2018-09-24 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, S. (2018). Sensorial Organization as an Ethics of Space: Digital Media in Everyday Life. Media and Communication, 6(2), 39-45
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sensorial Organization as an Ethics of Space: Digital Media in Everyday Life
2018 (English)In: Media and Communication, E-ISSN 2183-2439, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 39-45Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cogitatio Press, 2018
Keywords
digital media, ethics, everyday life, phenomenology, sensorial, space
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35375 (URN)10.17645/mac.v6i2.1337 (DOI)000433079800005 ()2-s2.0-85048462288 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2018-05-29 Created: 2018-05-29 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Johansson, B. & Bengtsson, S. (2016). On-Line Life in a Commercialised World: The Commodification of Mediated Social Relations (1ed.). In: Maria Edström, Andrew T. Kenyon & Eva-Maria Svensson (Ed.), Blurring the Lines: Market-Driven and Democracy-Driven Freedom of Expression (pp. 141-151). Göteborg: Nordicom
Open this publication in new window or tab >>On-Line Life in a Commercialised World: The Commodification of Mediated Social Relations
2016 (English)In: Blurring the Lines: Market-Driven and Democracy-Driven Freedom of Expression / [ed] Maria Edström, Andrew T. Kenyon & Eva-Maria Svensson, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2016, 1, p. 141-151Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Media usage has always included aspects of commodification. The media audience has been targeted as a recipient of advertising when watching (commercial) TV or reading newspapers. The advent of the Internet has further developed this commodification of the media audience. In many ways, everyday space is becoming more commercial in its organisation, citizens are being transformed into consumers and, in the long run, free speech conducted online is not free as it will be tracked, saved and used for commercial purposes. This chapter draws on a Swedish national representative survey asking re- spondents about their views on different aspects of commodification of their life online. The results indicate a rather sceptical view towards different forms of commodification related to Internet use among Swedish citizens. However, younger respondents, those with liberal market values and frequent Internet users embrace a more permissive view of a more commodified media environment. Two avenues are suggested for resisting such developments, targeting media producers and users. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Nordicom, 2016 Edition: 1
Keywords
commercialisation, audience, digital media, media ethics, opinions, Internet
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30977 (URN)978-91-87957-36-9 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2016-10-11 Created: 2016-10-11 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, S. (2016). The presentation of self in a virtual world: Working in Second Life (1ed.). In: Juliet Webster and Keith Randle (Ed.), Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market: (pp. 219-237). London: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The presentation of self in a virtual world: Working in Second Life
2016 (English)In: Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market / [ed] Juliet Webster and Keith Randle, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 1, p. 219-237Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Edition: 1
Series
Dynamics of Virtual Work
Keywords
Virtual work, virtual worlds, presentation of self
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30832 (URN)10.1057/978-1-137-47919-8_11 (DOI)9781137479181 (ISBN)978-1-349-69358-0 (ISBN)978-1-137-47919-8 (ISBN)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2016-09-06 Created: 2016-09-06 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, S. & Johansson, B. (2016). Vi vantrivs i det kommersiella (ett litet tag till). In: Oscar Westlund (Ed.), Människorna, medierna och marknaden: Medieutredningens forskningsantologi om en demokrati i förändring (pp. 189-208). Stockholm: Wolters Kluwer
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vi vantrivs i det kommersiella (ett litet tag till)
2016 (Swedish)In: Människorna, medierna och marknaden: Medieutredningens forskningsantologi om en demokrati i förändring / [ed] Oscar Westlund, Stockholm: Wolters Kluwer, 2016, p. 189-208Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Wolters Kluwer, 2016
Series
Statens offentliga utredningar, ISSN 0375-250X ; 2016:30
Keywords
kommodifiering, sociala relationer, kommersialisering, medie- och informationskunnighet
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29816 (URN)80/3.1.1/2013 (Local ID)978-91-38-24433-3 (ISBN)80/3.1.1/2013 (Archive number)80/3.1.1/2013 (OAI)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2016-04-08 Created: 2016-04-08 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Bengtsson, S. & Johansson, B. (2015). Mediemoral i en digital värld (1ed.). In: Bergström, A, Johansson B, Oscarsson H, Oskarsson M (Ed.), Fragment: (pp. 551-559). Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mediemoral i en digital värld
2015 (Swedish)In: Fragment / [ed] Bergström, A, Johansson B, Oscarsson H, Oskarsson M, Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet , 2015, 1, p. 551-559Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2015 Edition: 1
Series
SOM-rapport, ISSN 0284-4788 ; 63
Keywords
Digitala kultur, medieanvändning, moral, normer
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29817 (URN)80/3.1.1/2013 (Local ID)9789189673328 (ISBN)80/3.1.1/2013 (Archive number)80/3.1.1/2013 (OAI)
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P13-0842:1
Available from: 2016-04-08 Created: 2016-04-08 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Principal InvestigatorBengtsson, Stina
Co-InvestigatorJohansson, Bengt
Coordinating organisation
Södertörn University
Funder
Period
2014-01-01 - 2016-12-31
National Category
Media Studies
Identifiers
DiVA, id: project:1681Project, id: P13-0842:1_RJ

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