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Robert James Beckett: John Stanton on Data Imperialism & Digital Slavery

Ethics? We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics. Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience John Stanton, Global Research, 13 March 2016 In 2007 I wrote and presented a conceptual paper to an international studies group in Portugal. The subject matter was, generally, the use of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (ECN) …

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Robert James Beckett: Communications ethics and the Internet – intercultural and localising influencers

Communication ethics and the internet: intercultural and localising influencers International Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 2 (11/2004) Abstract: In the information-technology powered twenty first century a general demand for more effective communication is driving people to question the present, examine the past and to prognosticate the future.The ‘unique global media-information system’ – the Internet – …

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Robert James Beckett: Evgeny Morozov Calls Out Silicon Valley on Basic Income – Empty Words

Silicon Valley talks a good game on ‘basic income’, but its words are empty The radical idea of handing cash to citizens regardless of whether they work has taken root in Europe. Now America’s tech elite is backing the concept – but why? Basic income, therefore, is often seen as the Trojan horse that would …

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Robert James Beckett: IBM’s OpenPower — Wrong Thing Righter?

Competing Billion-Dollar Tech Companies Are Joining Forces. Here’s Why. The combination of open innovation and accelerated computing represents one of this decade’s most important technology trends. It’s transforming the concept of the closed-off supercomputer to a more diverse open architecture. As a result, companies that haven’t worked together before—and that may, in fact, be competitors—are …

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Robert James Beckett

My research and project work focus on the value of scientifically validated communications for business and society, particularly addressing serious issues underlying the debate over global sustainability and centering the innovative new discipline of communication ethics, ‘a philosophy for the information age. Recently, I produced an innovative online text, Citizen Science, employing a digital logic …

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Robert James Beckett: Communication ethics – Principle and practice

With permission Henry Stewart Publications KEYWORDS: COMMUNICATION, ETHICS, DISCOURSE, DIALOGUE, LANGUAGE, RELATIONSHIPS. Communication ethics Principle and practice Author: Robert Beckett MBA, coordinator Institute of Communication Ethics Abstract Communication ethics, this paper argues, is a discipline ready for application to communication management and is particularly relevant in an ‘age of information’. With a moral foundation firmly …

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