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Conférence: Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships (en anglais seulement)

Conférence « Online Shaming and Imaginal Relationships » (en anglais seulement)

Par Kathryn J. Norlock, professeure adjointe, The Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics

 

Mardi 20 mars 2018, Université Saint-Paul

Salle G1130, 18 h

 

Kate Norlock

 

 

Venez assister à cette conférence de Kate Norlock, de l’Université Trent, 
organisée en collaboration avec le programme d’éthique et d’affaires publiques de l’Université Carleton. 

 

Résumé : Online shaming is a subject of import for social philosophy in the Internet age, and not simply because shaming seems generally bad. I argue that social philosophers are well-placed to address the imaginal relationships we entertain when we engage in social media; activity in cyberspace results in more relationships than one previously had, entailing new and more responsibilities, and our relational behaviors admit of ethical assessment. I consider the stresses of social media, including the indefinite expansion of our relationships and responsibilities, and the gap between the experiences of those shamed and the shamers’ appreciation of the magnitude of what they do when they shame; I connect these to the literature suggesting that some intuitions fail to guide our ethics. I conclude that we each have more power than we believe we do or than we think carefully about exerting in our online imaginal relations. Whether we are the shamers or the shamed, we are unable to control the extent to which intangible words in cyberspace take the form of imaginal relationships that burden or brighten our self-perceptions.

 

L’événement est gratuit et ouvert à tous!



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