Who’s watching? Surveillance, big data and applied ethics in the digital age
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This 26th volume of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations is a selection of papers from the 27th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics with the theme ‘Who’s watching? Surveillance, big data and applied ethics in the digital age.’ The papers in this volume critically engage with contemporary issues surrounding big data and surveillance, particularly in relation to large institutions, including corporations and government agencies. Special focus is put on the ethical issues concerning the collection and use of big data sets.
Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed series that publishes rigorous academic research into organizational ethics from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Chapter 1. What Might Hannah Arendt Make of Big Data?: On Thinking, Natality, and Narrative with Big Data; Daniel Brennan
- Chapter 2. Big Data, scapegoat or hero – Ethical insights from René Girard; Howard Harris
- Chapter 3. China’s social credit system: How robust is the human rights critique?; Simon Burgess and Matthew Wysel
- Chapter 4. Libraries and Democracy in a Surveillance Culture; Caitlin Rowe
- Chapter 5. Abuse and Misuse of Substitute Decision-Making (SDM) Powers: Guardianship and Administration Law and Associated Governance Institutions in the Spotlight; Joseph Naimo
- Chapter 6. The comprehensive multidimensional legitimacy model: A methodology for applied ethics evaluation, institutional diagnosis, and practical reform development; Hugh Breakey
Adrian Walsh is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. He is also a Guest Professor in the Financial Ethics Research Group at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
Sandy Boucher is Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at the University of New England. His research interests are mainly in the philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science, but he also works on issues in metaphilosophy and epistemology.