• The best books on Digital Ethics - Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

The best books on Digital Ethics, recommended by Carissa Véliz

Philosophers have a lot to add to debates about digital technology and the moral issues raised by its rapid rise, argues Carissa Véliz, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. Here she talks us through books for the general reader that introduce some of the challenges of digital ethics, from concerns about privacy and bias to the threat to democracy and the future of humanity.  

  • The best books on Digital Africa - Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana by Jenna Burrell
  • The best books on Digital Africa - Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow by Mark Graham, Michel Wahome & Nicholas Friederici
  • The best books on Digital Africa - China Africa and the Future of the Internet by Iginio Gagliardone
  • The best books on Digital Africa - Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
  • The best books on Digital Africa - Africa's Information Revolution by James Murphy & Padraig Carmody

The best books on Digital Africa, recommended by Mohammad Amir Anwar

The internet and digital technology are transforming not only the way African countries trade and conduct business but also how they cohere socially and politically. Mohammad Amir Anwar, Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh, recommends books that investigate the opportunities for Africa from the growth of technology—but focus on specifics and avoid the hype.