When you compose a Tweet, click to “like” something on Facebook, share a story (or misinformation) on Instagram, craft a TikTok video, or share your data with Apple, what sorts of ethical questions and decisions are involved? We may be unreflective about them, but these might be some of the most challenging and consequential ones of our time. In this class, we will explore ethical questions provoked by our online behavior, interactions, formation, and environment. We’ll encounter some historically influential traditions of ethical reflection, philosophical and religious–interacting with your own–and we’ll probe whether they can sufficiently interpret our contemporary online experience. We’ll begin to recognize ourselves as moral actors in the digital space, considering how we render the self online, how we relate to others in this environment, how we are shaped by its designs, and how our online interactions are embedded within larger arrangements of power. This will include topics such as: To what extent can we be virtuous people online? How do social media algorithms shape and form us, create anxiety, estrangement, community, connection, or meaning? What is our role in misinformation circulation and informational silos online? Can we meaningfully participate in social justice movements digitally? What, if any, are appropriate regulations of online speech? What is our responsibility for what we purchase and consume online? Ultimately, can we be good on the internet, social media, and using technology?