Ethics in Computing: Real Ethics and Virtual Reality

Ethics in Computing: Real Ethics and Virtual Reality is an educational video about morality in virtual worlds produced for Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Leeds.

Playing video games can be an opportunity to suspend the moral rules we all live by, allowing us to identify with characters who behave in a way that we never would in real life. But does this mean that virtual worlds are a values-free zone, whose characters and situations are immune to scrutiny from a moral point of view?

In 2007, Manchester Cathedral threatened to take legal action against Sony over a violent game, Resistance: Fall of Man, which used the cathedral as a location. Ethics in Computing: Real Ethics and Virtual Reality examines that case and the many important ethical questions this raises. This video can be used either for individual study or as a basis for classroom discussion.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Educational video
• Ethics
• Ethics in Computing
• Manchester Cathedral
• Resistance: Fall of Man
• Sony
• The Production Zone
• Robert Haythorne
• University of Leeds
• video games
• video production
• virtual reality

[gwain30]

The level inside the Cathedral is kick ass

[Richyfresh]

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