Mark Alfano works in philosophy (epistemology, moral psychology), social science (personality & social psychology), and philosophy of technology (epistemology and ethics of algorithms, natural language processing & generation). He also brings digital humanities methods to bear on both contemporary problems and the history of philosophy (especially Nietzsche).
Fabio Patrone is affiliated with the Department of Human Studies at University of L’Aquila.
This paper discusses how digitally mediated environments help marginalized people critique hegemonic racial, gender, and sexuality ideologies through an examination of audience responses to identity-focused media content and media representation patterns. Specifically, I ask: in what ways do digital media platforms led by Black transgender and Black gay people articulate new understandings of race, gender, … Read more
Melissa Brown is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Santa Clara University.
Within the evolving tapestry of contemporary work, algorithmic technologies are becoming fundamental to the structuring and execution of work. Scholarship in this domain has begun to examine the potential impacts of work when AI technologies complement, augment, or even replace aspects of an individual’s workflow (Faraj, Pachidi, and Sayegh, 2018). As a result, employees enact … Read more
Ignacio Fernandez Cruz is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Northwestern University, USA.
Scholars have long interrogated the boundary between possessions and the self (e.g., James, 1890). In this tradition, Belk (1988) proposed self-extension as the extent to which “we regard our possessions as parts of ourselves” (p. 139). Self-extension has been applied to a variety of possessions, but a growing literature has applied it to possessions that … Read more
Morgan Quinn Ross is affiliated with the School of Communication at The Ohio State University.
This article motivates and explores the ethical implications of avatar identity realism, the view that virtual avatars can be a constitutive part of one’s personal identity. Avatar identity realism is congruent with recent work on the extended self (Heersmink, 2020) and relevant to burgeoning research in the ethics of video games and virtual reality. First, … Read more
Cody Turner is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Technology Ethics Center at the University of Notre Dame.