Digital Poetics
A Ricoeurian Approach to Digital Technologies
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2025
264 pages
978-1-6669-4224-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory and ethics, Fernando Nascimento argues for a new approach to integrating ethics into digital technology development, use, and regulation.
This book introduces the concept of "digital poetics" to address the unprecedented ethical challenges posed by ubiquitous, intimate, and plastic digital technologies. Nascimento proposes narrative deliberation as a framework for ethical decision-making, contextualizing moral principles, encouraging public debate, intertwining technique with ethics, and employing narrative imagination to overcome practical dilemmas. By examining three spheres of deliberation-developers, users, and institutions-Digital Poetics offers a multidimensional analysis of ethical considerations in the digital realm. This book presents digital poetics as both a utopian ideal and an ethical imperative which can respond to the rapid pace of technological change and the complexity of implementing ethical frameworks in digital contexts
This book introduces the concept of "digital poetics" to address the unprecedented ethical challenges posed by ubiquitous, intimate, and plastic digital technologies. Nascimento proposes narrative deliberation as a framework for ethical decision-making, contextualizing moral principles, encouraging public debate, intertwining technique with ethics, and employing narrative imagination to overcome practical dilemmas. By examining three spheres of deliberation-developers, users, and institutions-Digital Poetics offers a multidimensional analysis of ethical considerations in the digital realm. This book presents digital poetics as both a utopian ideal and an ethical imperative which can respond to the rapid pace of technological change and the complexity of implementing ethical frameworks in digital contexts
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-4224-8 (9781666942248)
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09/2025
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
Fernando Nascimento is Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies at Bowdoin College.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Digital Technologies
Chapter 2: The Ethical Dimension of Technology Development
Chapter 3: Ethical Deliberation of Digital Matters
Chapter 4: Developers' Sphere of Deliberation
Chapter 5: Users' Sphere of Deliberation
Chapter 6: Institutional Sphere of Deliberation
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Digital Technologies
Chapter 2: The Ethical Dimension of Technology Development
Chapter 3: Ethical Deliberation of Digital Matters
Chapter 4: Developers' Sphere of Deliberation
Chapter 5: Users' Sphere of Deliberation
Chapter 6: Institutional Sphere of Deliberation
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
