The Annual Digital Lecture: Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it

In this talk Luciano Floridi presents new research on
‘semantic capital’, which he defines as the capital of ideas,
knowledge, meaning and culture, and how it can be protected and
fostered by the digital. What may digital ethics do to
ensure its care, protection, and development?


Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of
Information at the University of Oxford, where he directs the
Digital Ethics Lab (DELab) of the Oxford Internet Institute. He
is also Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and Chair
of its Data Ethics research Group, and Chairman of the Ethics
Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework.
He sits on the EU’s Ethics Advisory Group on Ethical Dimensions
of Data Protection, on the Royal Society and British Academy
Working Group on Data Governance, and on Google Advisory Board
on ‘the right to be forgotten’. His areas of expertise include
the philosophy of information, digital ethics, and the
philosophy of technology. His recent books include ‘The Fourth
Revolution – How the infosphere is reshaping human reality’
(2014), ‘The Ethics of Information’ (2013), and ‘The
Philosophy of Information’ (2011).