Social media business practices are evaluated using duty ethics, utilitarian ethics, and virtue ethics to reveal ethical issues related to the motivation behind its creation, its consequences for users in terms of both pleasure and preference satisfaction, and how it impacts the moral formation of those who develop the applications and those who use it.
Review of Ethan Blue, Michael Levine, and Dean Nieusma’s Engineering and War: Militarism, Ethics, Institutions, Alternatives, San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2014.