THE ETHICAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD

Abstract

While the ethical codes of the information society, as well as the information society itself, are in the process of formation, virtual interaction is mainly carried out outside of generally accepted ethics or has its own characteristics and rules. These problems are the subject of research in the special department of information ethics aimed at analysing the ethical aspects of the development of information technologies, ethical principles and standards of virtual communication, and ethical issues related to the media community. The object of the research is to describe the problems of information ethics, its status, as well as to review the ethical norms intended to regulate the information society accepted at the international level. The development of information ethics is considered with the connection between the phenomena of electronic culture and the process of virtualization of modern human lifestyle. Research methodology is based on the concept of information society, ethical and axiological approach to its phenomena. The article proposes the author's concept of "information ethics" and analyses its subject and specific aspects. Subjective and objective factors of moral environment formation in the virtual world are revealed. It is based on its special status and place in the system of scientific and philosophical knowledge.