'The Digital Hell': Dark Web in Mos'ad's Kopimist (2019) and Percy's Dark Net (2017) in Terms of Fuchs's Digital Capitalism and Digital Ethics | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Article 36, Volume 15, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 1450-1481 PDF (559.73 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2023.250362.1989 | ||
| Author | ||
| أمل جلال محمد مرسي* | ||
| كلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The digital revolution has transformed global communication and lifestyles, but it has not altered capitalism's focus on wealth accumulation. Digital giants like Facebook and Google, for example, operate on profit-making policies similar to those of traditional capitalist organisations, but their commodities are their users' data, which puts users' privacy at risk. Humans are dominated by digital capitalism and this, in turn, fuels the existence of a new world with certain rules, or what is known as digital ethics. Unfortunately, the existence of such rules does not provide a completely safe digital environment because some companies violate these ethics, as exemplified in the dark web world. The danger of the dark web lies in the anonymity of its users' identities, a peculiar characteristic that makes it a haven for immoral and illegal activities. This, in turn, produces an increasing threat to the security and stability of any society. Thus, this paper aims to assert the dangerous impact of digital capitalism on contemporary societies, elucidate the significance of digital ethics as an alternative for the common good, and raise awareness concerning the catastrophic consequences of the lack of such ethics in the dark web. Two representative novels from the Arab and English literature are selected and analyzed from the perspective of Christian Fuchs's critical theories of 'Digital Capitalism' and 'Digital Ethics'. The selected novels are The Kopimist: The Dark Web (2019) by the Egyptian novelist Ahmad Mos'ad and The Dark Net (2017) by the American author Benjamin Percy. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Dark Web; Digital Capitalism; Digital Ethics; The Kopimist: The Dark Web; and The Dark Net | ||
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