An Ethical Analysis Of Online Game Communication

During the 1980s, developed counrties took the lead in inventing internet technology, then brought a variety of new entertainment forms, online gaming was one of them.In China, from the early 1990s to the present, hundreds of online games are independently developed every year. With many advantages based on internet communication over traditioanl games, online gaming can make players get rid of much restriction of objective conditions and play at any time and any place through portable network media, so online gaming is popular especially with teenagers who are persistent novelty seekers.Nowadays there is an inherent contradiction between economical benifits and social benefits in developing online gaming in China, because valuing the former will devaluing the latter or vice versa, so how to properly and effectively deal with the relationship between the two is a problem to be solved. The author thinks that, since it is difficult to ’have your cake and eat it", we should put stress on social benefits as a basic orientation to develop online gaming in China. For this, my thesis topic selection would be "an ethical analysis of online game communication", trying to use certain ethical norms to examine the behavior and action of the people involved in online game communication, especially identify their nonethical behavior, find out why and how misbehavior is formed, then on this basis make suggestions for healthy development of the online game industry in ChinaIn this study drawing on relevant ethical research findings and using ethical norms advocated in our society as a yardstick, I analysize and evaluate the actual behavior of participants in each main link of online game communication, then according to the results of analysis and evaluation, put forward countermeasures with a view to making online game communication benificial to enhance the moral quality of citizens and the level of social civilization, especially help teenagers to have sound body and mind. In addition, I try to discuss what should be done in keeping a balance between business interests and social interests in developing the online game industry in China.