Virtual Morality: Morals, Ethics and New Media Just received my contributor's copy of Virtual Morality, a collection of a dozen essays about new media and technology, community and religion. It includes my essay, "World Wide Witness: Friendship Evangelism on the Internet." This is my first foray into the rarefied air of academic publishing. The publisher, Peter Lang, is best known for its catalog of academic books.
Here's the book description from Amazon:
New technologies continue to shape communication and how we think about and relate to the world around us. What is rarely examined is how these new media relate to morals and ethics in society and culture. In a series of twelve essays, written from a variety of viewpoints including philosophy, communication, media and art, and situating its arguments around the three poles of technology, community, and religion, this collection examines the relationship between morals and ethics and new media, ranging from the ways in which new communication technologies are employed to their effects on the messages communicated and those who use them.
I'm looking forward to reading this, and hope it finds its way into the hands of many practitioners, not just the academics.