Digital futures: A brief essay on sustainable life in the digital age

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  • Rafael Capurro International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE) in Karlsruhe (Germany).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12539

Keywords:

digital age, sustainable living, misinformation, surveillance, thinking

Abstract

The following reflections are based on the premise that individual and social life is open not only to a single goal, in a deterministic historical process, but rather, to a number of possibilities, among which we can find digitalisation. Society, understood as interaction among free citizens and between them and their government, must now promote everyone’s participation in the creation of potential digital futures. These must be based on fair rules and also promote digital literacy both in the sense of educating citizens in the management of digital technologies and in giving them the tools to reflect critically upon them in relation to sustainable lifestyles.

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Author Biography

Rafael Capurro, International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE) in Karlsruhe (Germany).

PhD in Philosophy. He was the founder of the International Centre for Information Ethics (ICIE) in Karlsruhe (Germany) and is an emeritus professor of Information Science and Information Ethics at Stuttgart Media University (Germany). His research focuses in hermeneutics, information ethics, the fundamentals of information science, and angeletics (message theory). He has published several books in these areas, the latest of which is Homo digitalis (Heidelberg, 2017).

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Published

2020-01-08

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Capurro, R. (2020). Digital futures: A brief essay on sustainable life in the digital age. Metode Science Studies Journal, (10), 59–63. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12539
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