Instagram and its Relation to Moral Values

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Hosseini Renani, Niloofar Sadat | 2023

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 57782 (42)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Philosophy of Science
Advisor(s): Hosseini, Hassan
Abstract:
In this thesis, the value-ladenness or value-neutrality of technology, new social media and as a result Instagram is investigated. It is also discussed whether values can be taken into account during the design process of technical artefacts, including new social media and Instagram, and methods are developed for this purpose. Several methods have been developed for this purpose, some of them and their compatibility with modern social media are explained; including the Value-Sensitive-Design method and the disclosive computer ethics design method. The frameworks of ethical philosophy such as virtue ethics are reviewed and the appropriate ethical framework for the analysis of new social media and Instagram is presented. In the following sections, new social media and Instagram, their history and characteristics, both favorable and unfavorable, have been investigated. We have also investigated the question of whether alternative internet, alternative social media and alternative Instagram are basically possible or not
Keywords:
Instagram ; Ethics ; Value ; Social Media ; Technology ; Design ; Virtual World

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