The computational turn leads to a robo-philosophy that uses computational and robotic technologies as testbeds for philosophical questions such as the nature of being human. Robo-theology extends these approaches and ...

Against the background of growing interest in normative frameworks within Media and Communication Studies and Internet Studies, I propose a virtue ethics framework for Digital Religion (DR). This framework conjoins loving ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the emerging internet and World Wide Web inspired both popular and scholarly optimism that these new communication technologies would inevitably “democratise”—in local organisations, ...

It might be thought that Human-Machine Communication (HMC) and ethics have little, if anything to do with one another. To be sure, those engaged in the more technical sides of HMC—ICT designers, software engineers, ...

The world's first robot teacher, Saya, was introduced to a classroom in Japan in 2009. Saya had the appearance of a young female teacher. She could express six basic emotions, take the register and shout orders like ‘be ...

What became known as the CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Com - munication) conference series began at a specific time in Internet studies-and in a very specific experience of culture shock. I describe these ...