Digital Ethics: The Issue of Images
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (2022), 426 pp.
Series: Bild und Recht - Studien zur Regulierung des Visuellen, 11
ISBN 978-3-7489-3401-1 (PDF)
"Digital images raise ethical issues that have so far received only little attention. The discrete pixels of digital images can be freely combined. Compared to the dissemination of analog images the net enables dis-proportionately greater control over how digital images are to be distributed. As of today, the consequences for contemporary visual communication as well as for the cultural visual memory are all but clear. Can there be an applied ethics of digital images at all? What could be the content of such a normative ethics? And what is the relationship between ethics and the law of digital images? This volume brings together the contributions to an interdisciplinary German-Italian conference at Villa Vigoni, sponsored by the German Research Foundation DFG." (Publisher description)
PART 1: FROM DRAWINGS TO DEEP FAKES – SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
1 Images, Technology, Ethics and Law – An Intricate Relationship / Thomas Dreier, Tiziana Andina, 11
2 From Goethe’s Italian Journey to Transalpine Online Navigation – Narrative Changes and Transnational Stereotypes / Werner Gephart, 37
PART 2: ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS
3 Digital Image Ethics – How it Could be Pursued and What It Might Have to Say / Reinold Schmucker, 49
4 Form and Norm in Pictures / Enrico Terrone, 75
PART 3: IMAGES, ART AND SOCIETY
5 Who Cares About Privacy? The Documedia Surplus Value / Maurizio Ferraris, 81
6 Immersive Artistic Forms – What They Are and How to Identify Them / Davide Dal Sasso, 101
7 From Works to Living Means of Communication – The Digital Image and the ‘Iconic Turn’/ Wolfgang Ullrich, 127
8 Fairness Aspects of Techniques of Referencing Cultures / Eva-Maria Bauer, 137
9 Towards a New Ethic: Building Transgenerationality –Digital Images to Orient the Future / Tiziana Andina, 159
10 Iconoclasm and Iconoclash – The Digital Restoration of the Movement-Image / Cosetta Saba, 171
PART 4: BINARY ENCODING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE VISUAL OBJECT
11 Semioethics of the Visual Fake / Massimo Leone, 187
12 From Copy & Paste to Deep Fakes – Digital Collaging and Image Manipulation / Olivia Hagle, 207
13 The Multi-Layered Information in a Digital Image / Benjamin Raue, 229
14 Portrait or Personal Data – The Rivalry of Image and Data Protection Legislation / Lorenz Muller-Tamm, 239
15 Human Authorship and Art Created by Artificial Intelligence – Where Do We Stand? / Gianmaria Ajani, 253
PART 5: TECHNOLOGY, ETHICS AND LEGAL NORMS
16 A Face in the Cloud? – Identifying Moral Issues and Constraints in Cloud-Based Image Storage / Wybo Houkes, 273
17 The Deontic Power of the Internet – Access Controls and the Obsolescence of Legal Norms / Thomas Dreier, 297
18 Algorithmic Censorship of Online Visual Content – Ethical, Political, and Economic Rationales / Eberhard Ortland, 323
19 The Issue of the Image of Algorithms / Lisa Kade, 335
PART 6: ETHICS AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
20 The Constitutional Protection of Images / Johannes Eichenhofer, 357
21 Contemporary Art on Trial – The Fundamental Right to Free Artistic Expression and the Regulation of the Use of Images by Copyright Law / Christophe Geiger, 387
1 Images, Technology, Ethics and Law – An Intricate Relationship / Thomas Dreier, Tiziana Andina, 11
2 From Goethe’s Italian Journey to Transalpine Online Navigation – Narrative Changes and Transnational Stereotypes / Werner Gephart, 37
PART 2: ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS
3 Digital Image Ethics – How it Could be Pursued and What It Might Have to Say / Reinold Schmucker, 49
4 Form and Norm in Pictures / Enrico Terrone, 75
PART 3: IMAGES, ART AND SOCIETY
5 Who Cares About Privacy? The Documedia Surplus Value / Maurizio Ferraris, 81
6 Immersive Artistic Forms – What They Are and How to Identify Them / Davide Dal Sasso, 101
7 From Works to Living Means of Communication – The Digital Image and the ‘Iconic Turn’/ Wolfgang Ullrich, 127
8 Fairness Aspects of Techniques of Referencing Cultures / Eva-Maria Bauer, 137
9 Towards a New Ethic: Building Transgenerationality –Digital Images to Orient the Future / Tiziana Andina, 159
10 Iconoclasm and Iconoclash – The Digital Restoration of the Movement-Image / Cosetta Saba, 171
PART 4: BINARY ENCODING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE VISUAL OBJECT
11 Semioethics of the Visual Fake / Massimo Leone, 187
12 From Copy & Paste to Deep Fakes – Digital Collaging and Image Manipulation / Olivia Hagle, 207
13 The Multi-Layered Information in a Digital Image / Benjamin Raue, 229
14 Portrait or Personal Data – The Rivalry of Image and Data Protection Legislation / Lorenz Muller-Tamm, 239
15 Human Authorship and Art Created by Artificial Intelligence – Where Do We Stand? / Gianmaria Ajani, 253
PART 5: TECHNOLOGY, ETHICS AND LEGAL NORMS
16 A Face in the Cloud? – Identifying Moral Issues and Constraints in Cloud-Based Image Storage / Wybo Houkes, 273
17 The Deontic Power of the Internet – Access Controls and the Obsolescence of Legal Norms / Thomas Dreier, 297
18 Algorithmic Censorship of Online Visual Content – Ethical, Political, and Economic Rationales / Eberhard Ortland, 323
19 The Issue of the Image of Algorithms / Lisa Kade, 335
PART 6: ETHICS AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
20 The Constitutional Protection of Images / Johannes Eichenhofer, 357
21 Contemporary Art on Trial – The Fundamental Right to Free Artistic Expression and the Regulation of the Use of Images by Copyright Law / Christophe Geiger, 387
