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Social Media Ethics

Social media has greatly expanded our connectedness, capitalizing upon one of the defining features of the internet: the incredible potential for connectivity both in terms of social relations (connecting people) and in terms of information (providing access to huge amounts of data by opening up and combining databases). Both of these aspects are ethically significant. This entry explores several ethically relevant aspects of social media and its use, its influence on personality and on cognitive performance, and the problematic status of intellectual property and privacy. In addition, attention is drawn to the ethical styles that are most naturally expressed in social media behavior. 
 
 
Keywords: 
 
feedback; 
learning; 
literacy; 
online behavior; 
privacy