Re-imagining the Digital Age through Digital Ethics

The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the URI link.This digitisation of everything requires a greater emphasis on, what we should now call, Digital Ethics. If not, then a very bleak, discriminatory world beckons. It would be a world of privileged digital natives and an underclass of digital outcasts, a world of danger, domination and despair. There is a need to develop a new vision for Digital Ethics which is theoretically grounded but pragmatic, so that industry and government will engage, accept and embrace this as a modus operandi. This is explored in some detail