Charles Wankel and Shaun Malleck, Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual
Worlds (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2010).
Virtual Worlds are increasingly used in business and education. With each
day more people are venturing into computer-generated online persistent
worlds such as Second Life for increasingly diverse reasons such as
commerce, education, research, and entertainment. This book explores the
emerging ethical issues associated with these novel environments for human
interaction and cutting-edge approaches to the attendant new ethical
problems. This volume puts forth a wide range of virtual world ethical
issues on which research is only commencing. Topics include real-world
ethical and legal issues of doings in virtual worlds, norms of research
ethics in virtual worlds, ethical implications of employing virtual worlds
as tools for medical education and experimenting with healthcare services,
the ethics of the collective action of virtual world communities,
consideration of the virtue and potential of cosmopolitanism in virtual
worlds, Deleuzian ethical approaches to the experience of the disabled in
virtual worlds, the ethics of virtual world design, and the ethical
implications of the "illusion of reality" presented by virtual worlds.
http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Research-Management-Education-Development/dp/
1607523779/
Collegially,
Charles Wankel
St. John's University, New York
http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~wankelc
Add me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wankelc
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