Disengagement in the Digital Age: A Virtue Ethical Approach to Epistemic Sorting on Social Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-259
Author(s):  
Kirsten J. Worden
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
Current Concerns

Abstract Using the Aristotelian virtue of friendship and concept of practical wisdom, this paper argues that engaging in political discourse with friends on social media is conducive to the pursuit of the good life because it facilitates the acquisition of the socio-political information and understanding necessary to live well. Previous work on social media, the virtues, and friendship focuses on the initiation and maintenance of the highest form of friendship (Aristotle’s ‘ideal friendship’) online. I argue that the information necessary to live well can come from non-ideal, civic friends in addition to ideal friends. In order to acquire this information successfully via social media, users should practice inclusive engagement, self-control, discretion, and audience-sensitivity in their cyber interactions. This argument is salient given the current concerns about ‘echo chambers’ or ‘filter bubbles’, in which users ignore or block out friends and news sources that support political perspectives different from one’s own.

scholarly journals A GOOD LIFE? CRITICAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO INFLUENCER ECOLOGIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Glatt ◽  
Sarah Banet-Weiser ◽  
Sophie Bishop ◽  
Francesca Sobande ◽  
Elizabeth Wissinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Social media platforms are widely lauded as bastions for entrepreneurial self-actualisation and creative autonomy, offering an answer to historically exclusive and hierarchical creative industries as routes to employability and success. Social media influencers are envied by audiences as having achieved ‘the good life’, one in which they are able to ‘do what they love’ for a living (Duffy 2017). Despite this ostensive accessibility and relatability, today’s high-profile influencer culture continues to be shaped by ‘preexisting gendered and racial scripts and their attendant grammars of exclusion’ as Sarah Banet-Weiser (2012) argued in the early days of socially mediated entrepreneurship (p. 89; see also Bishop, 2017). In Western contexts only a narrow subset of white, cis-gender, and heterosexual YouTubers, Instagrammers, TikTokers, and Twitch streamers tend to achieve visibility as social media star-creators, and celebratory discourses of diversity and fairness mask problematic structures that exclude marginalized identities from opportunities to attain success. A key aim of this panel is thus to draw attention to marginalized creator communities and subjectivities, including women, non-white, and queer creators, all of whom face higher barriers to entry and success. More broadly, by taking seriously both the practices and discourses of social media influencers, the panellists aim to challenge popular denigrations of influencers as vapid, frivolous, or eager to freeload. We locate such critiques in longstanding dismissals of feminized cultural production (Levine, 2013) and argue, instead, that we need to take seriously the role of influencers in various social, economic, and political configurations.

5. Ethics

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Brad Inwood
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Wise Person ◽  
The Family

Ethics is the part of the Stoics’ legacy that is most prominent and influential today. Their theory of the good life for human beings falls into the family of theories associated with Socrates and his followers. This tradition includes Plato and most Platonists, Xenophon, the Cynics, Aristotle, and later Aristotelians, all of whom share the view that virtue, the excellence of a human being, is the highest value and is its own reward. ‘Ethics’ discusses the Stoics’ views on human nature and rationality; the four basic virtues: justice, courage, wisdom, and moderation or self-control; and the doctrine that the fully rational and wise person will be free of passions.

scholarly journals The uncertain first-time voter: Effects of political media exposure on young citizens’ formation of vote choice in a digital media environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 3243-3265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Ohme ◽  
Claes H. de Vreese ◽  
Erik Albaek
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
News Sources ◽  
First Time

The digital media environment changes the way citizens receive political information, also during an election campaign. Particularly first-time voters increasingly use social media platforms as news sources. Yet, it is less clear how accessing political information in such a unique social setting affects these cohorts’ decision-making processes during an election campaign, compared to experienced voters. We compare effects of these two groups’ political information exposure on their vote choice certainty during the 2015 Danish national election. We furthermore test how the relation between exposure and certainty can be mediated by active campaign participation. An 11-wave national panel study was conducted, using a smartphone-based assessment of citizens’ ( n = 1108) media exposure and vote choice certainty across the campaign period. Results suggest that first-time voters’ social media exposure is responsible for their increase in certainty as the campaign progresses, while this effect is absent for experienced voters.

scholarly journals Is the good life characterized by self-control? Perceived regulatory success and judgments of life quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 572-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Wirtz ◽  
Juliann Stalls ◽  
Christie Napa Scollon ◽  
Karl L. Wuensch
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Good Life

Social Media and the Good Life: Do They Connect?

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life

scholarly journals Ethical Assumptions and Implications of Hermeneutic Practice as Practical Wisdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Luiz Rohden
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Text Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Interpretation Of Literature

The goal of this paper is to justify the view that hermeneutical practice as a philosophical proposal cannot be reduced to the extraction of hidden meanings or the explication of text structures but instead contains ethical assumptions and implications. Following Ricœur’s work, I will show that literary texts are part of ethics insofar as they create different mental experiments about ideas and values. I will show that the interpretation of literary texts, woven by the free play of imagination, constitutes a practice in which readers have the possibility of reconfiguring their way of looking at the world and acting. The reading of literature is an exercise of practical wisdom by enabling readers to rehearse and enable the implementation of the good life in just institutions. To achieve the paper’s goal, I initially discuss ethical assumptions present in literary texts. I then develop Ricœur’s notion of hermeneutics as used for the interpretation of literature. Finally, I propose several ethical implications resulting from the hermeneutical practice that is related to literary texts.

Asianfail

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Ty
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Saving Face

Asianfail examines literary and filmic works by contemporary Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that deal with failure and unhappiness. While the hashtag #Asianfail pokes fun at cultural stereotypes of Asians on social media, the myth of the model minority has serious negative consequences for many young people who feel pressure and anxiety when they do not succeed in professional careers. This book looks at how novelists, such as Ruth Ozeki, Madeleine Thien, Alex Gilvarry, and lê thi diem thúy reveal the "cruel optimism" that characterizes ordinary existence for many people in the 21st century. Films such as The Debut, Red Doors,and Saving Face query immigrant aspirations of the older generation and the feasibility of the American dream. The protagonists in the graphic novels of Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki express their ugly and painful feelings as they grow up, while Jan Wong and Catherine Hernandez grapple with work and stress-related depression. In Linda Ohama's Obaachan's Garden and Catherine Hernandez' performance, even the aged feel precarity and are burdened with secrets of the past. These works interrogate and expose the limits of our neoliberal notions of the good life and happiness.

Aesthetic Courage and Phronesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Katherine Tullmann ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Virtuous Agent ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Theoretic Concept

This paper analyzes aesthetic courage, a virtue directed towards aesthetic objects when subjects are asked to confront content that is psychologically or socially risky. I examine aesthetic courage to explore how it plays a role in a virtue theoretic account of the good life. I contend that the virtue theoretic concept of phronesis, or practical wisdom, plays a strong role in guiding the virtuous agent to make decisions about the course of action that promotes her good life. The concept of phronesis in service of the good life acts as the foundation for my concept of aesthetic courage. I analyze several examples of aesthetic courage, including the controversy surrounding the contemplative garden at Stanford University in honor of Chanel Miller and other survivors of sexual assault.

scholarly journals Game Engklek Kolam Maut Berbasis Android

JOUTICA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ghofar Rohman ◽  
Arif Irawan ◽  
Masruroh Masruroh
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The World ◽  
Android System ◽  
Traditional Game

The development of information technology is growing very rapidly so it can meet a variety of activities and human needs. Android is able to provide the effectiveness of the good life for humans. In addition to the Android, someone is able to create something useful. Android is now becoming a very popular program in the world has many advantages. The programs in Android provide a variety of interesting applications for learning, education, social media, games, information and so forth. Traditional games themselves are often called folk games this is a game that has been around since the days of our ancestors, which then passed down from generation to generation, like the traditional game of “Engklek” that often played by the children in rural areas. In line with the developments of science and technology traditional game is successfully combined with games thst appear on Takeshi Castle which is death pool, and also can be played on smartphones, especially with Android system, so it will be very easy to play anytime and anywhere.

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