Dr Vince Miller’s new book The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture is now available in both hard copy and electronic versions.
Dr Miller examines the relationship between the freedom provided by the contemporary online world and the control, surveillance and censorship operating in the virtual environment.
The book questions the origins and sincerity of moral panics about use – and abuse – in the contemporary online environment and offers an analysis of ethics, privacy and free speech in this setting. Through the publication, Dr Miller investigates the ethical challenges that confront our increasingly digital culture and suggests a number of revisions to our ethical, legal and technological regimes, including changing our ‘dehumanising’ social media software, expanding the notion of our ‘selves’ or ‘bodies’ to include our digital traces, and to re-introduce ‘time’ into social media through the creation of ‘expiry dates’ on social media communications.
The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture is available from Sage Publications.
Dr Vince Miller is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research.