ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyzes the intersections of digital literacy and ethical literacy that are required to understand digital ethics and discusses procedurality, along with programmability and the possibility of moral algorithms. It argues that taking digital ethics to be this process of becoming literate requires both epistemic or knowledge-based inquiry as well as ethical or values-based inquiry. The book utilizes contemporary examples dealing with embeddedness to frame the concepts and problems. It examines the ways that understanding ethical implications can and should have practical implications for policy and practice. The book describes enrich the dialogue about digital ethics by drawing out an explicit social justice angle that focuses attention on the ways in which the digital enables and restricts access and interaction.
