From classical ontology to who magazine: digital whoness: identity, privacy and freedom in the cyberworld (capurro, r., et al; 2013) [book review]

This book poses a range of important questions. Who - as distinct from what - are we? Can the self be digitized? Will or can the algorithm replace the soul and the psyche? What are the intercultural determinants of private/public ethics? How is the interplay between private and public spheres of experience to be enacted? Where is the fine line between trust and control? How is trust to be engendered in a cyber world that enables “self-determined world-sharing with selected others” when in the background “service-providing masters of digital cybernetics#x0201D; loom large? According to the authors, privacy and publicness are not “properties of things, data or persons, but rather ascriptions dependent upon the specific social and cultural context.”