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Erschienen in: Ethics and Information Technology 3/2012

01.09.2012 | Original Paper

Introduction: one thousand friends

verfasst von: Dean Cocking, Jeroen van den Hoven, Job Timmermans

Erschienen in: Ethics and Information Technology | Ausgabe 3/2012

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The trouble with you Charles is you want love but you want love on your own terms.
What other terms are there Jeddidihah?

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Fußnoten
1
Thanks to Batya Friedman for making this observation in conversation.
 
2
Moreover, it is hard to believe that traditional world connotations of the term ‘friend’ are not an important driver for social networking sites’ appropriation of the term. In particular, it is hard to believe that the importance (and so selling power) of close, personal relationships to how we understand ourselves and what matters to us is not a driver of social networking sites appropriation of the term. Otherwise, why not simply have ‘contact list’?
 
3
See, e.g., Sherman (1993), Thomas (1989).
 
4
Aristotle, Magna Moralia, 1213a20–1213b.
 
5
Op cit, Sherman, pp. 105–106.
 
6
Op cit, Thomas, p. 147.
 
7
Cooper (1980).
 
8
Aristotle, Magna Moralia, 1213a 26-8; for extended discussion see also, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. 9, 9, 1169a35–1170b20.
 
9
Cocking and Matthews (2000).
 
10
Since most users online have well over one hundred friends and it makes no sense to suppose one might have anything like this number of close companion friends, the evidence cannot mean that most friendships online are about maintaining existing offline companion friendships. Rather, while users may have many hundred friends online and only a handful of companion friendships offline most online pursuit of companion friendship is being claimed to regard this handful.
 
11
The explosion of various kinds of bullying online, especially among our young people, is one plain and central example.
 
12
This is perhaps most strikingly captured by his ‘creation’ of the girl—with whom he thinks he falls in love—into a starlet (in ways increasingly more demanding, ridiculous and foreign to her) after his marriage had fallen into loveless disrepair.
 
13
The Offensive Internet (2010).
 
14
Guest (2008).
 
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Zurück zum Zitat Cooper, J. M. (1980). Aristotle on friendship. In A. O. Rorty (Ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (pp. 322–333). Berkeley: University of California Press. Cooper, J. M. (1980). Aristotle on friendship. In A. O. Rorty (Ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (pp. 322–333). Berkeley: University of California Press.
Zurück zum Zitat Sherman, N. (1993). Aristotle and the shared life. In N. K. Badhwar (Ed.), Friendship: A philosophical reader. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Sherman, N. (1993). Aristotle and the shared life. In N. K. Badhwar (Ed.), Friendship: A philosophical reader. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
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Metadaten
Titel
Introduction: one thousand friends
verfasst von
Dean Cocking
Jeroen van den Hoven
Job Timmermans
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2012
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Ethics and Information Technology / Ausgabe 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1388-1957
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8439
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-012-9299-5

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