Technoethics: from "hackers' ethics" to a re-definition in a "hybrid" criminal world

• In Event: Cybercrime Working Group - Trends in cybercrime 2

Abstract

In the 'Hybrid' World, every new innovation poses a particular ethical dilemma. New norms are replacing the old, and the challenge is to provide convincing answers without applying traditional normative ethics to the development and deployment of new digital ethics. This article attempts to reflect on the motivations and values of hackers by considering Technoethics as a ‘continuity’ or ‘evolution’ of hackers' ethics in light of the global ‘networked information society’ in which decisions are made on the basis of facts rather than intuition, a posthuman or even transhuman world in which not only intelligence but also agency and identity are distributed across heterogeneous networks of humans and non-humans. The occasion for this attempt is the digital transformation, the emergence of a global network society, the digital society, the ‘hybrid’ criminal world in the light of the discipline of digital criminology.

Authors

• Fotios Spyropoulos, PHILIPS UNIVERSITY (Cy)

• Evangelia Androulaki, University of West Attica (GR)

• Martha Lempesi, Center for the Study of Crime