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CYBERETHICS: Our Relationships in Cyberspace

Dr. Sebastian Mahfood,
Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies,
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary

CYBERETHICS:
Our Relationships in Cyberspace

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 7-8 pm
Main Auditorium, Cardinal Rigali Center

20 Archbishop May Drive, Shrewsbury, MO 63119

$5 suggested donation — RSVP

Cyberbullying and Other Ethical Excesses in Cyberspace

ST. LOUIS, MO — Last Summer, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill outlawing cyberbullying. The action followed the suicide death, two years earlier, of a 13-year-old Missouri girl jilted by an imaginary, online boyfriend created by a neighbor.

On Thursday, February 19th, at the Cardinal Rigali Center in St. Louis, Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, associate professor of intercultural studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, will present a lecture on “Our Relationships in Cyberspace.” Dr. Mahfood is an authority on “cyberethics,” the application of moral standards to the internet and other virtual reality arenas. Mahfood contends that technology is an extension of our selves and that we need to remember that we are interacting with real persons when we engage them via websites, blogs, videos, and other online forums. Cyberbullying is one of several specific cases he will address.

In his presentation, and the question-and-answer session to follow, Dr. Mahfood will also discuss internet courtesy or “netiquette,” internet slander, anonymous blogging, plagiarism in cyberspace, software piracy, humorous and harmful hoaxes, etc.

Dr. Mahfood is a founding member of Catholic Internet Developers (CiD), a networking and support group for St. Louis-area writers, artists, and programmers providing content for the internet.

To schedule an interview with Dr. Mahfood, please contact: Bob Duplantier, Chairman
Catholic Internet Developers

Tags: Children and Electronic Media, CiD event, communication, cyberchastity, cyberethics, internet

New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship

Pope Asks Young Catholics to Use Technology to Share Their Faith

The theme for the 2009 World Communications Day, which will be celebrated May 24 in most dioceses, is “New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship.”

Releasing the message—which included e-mailing it directly to 100,000 young Catholics around the world and asking them to forward it or post it on their Web sites—the Vatican also announced that it would take a further step into the digital age by making video of the pope available on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.

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Tags: Catholic media, communication, evangelization

Connection vs. Communication

Youth are acquiring a mental habit of living “connected” — connected, that is, to the Internet. But being “connected” is not the same as communicating, warns a Chilean philosopher. – Zenit.org

Zenit summarizes the comments of Jaime Antúnez, editor of Humanitas, delivered at the 6th World Meeting of Families in Mexico City.

Tags: communication, connection, Jaime Antunez, World Meeting of Families