Gigliotti with her essays raises the question of ethics in concern with digital media. She opens up with the question of pornography; a relatively easy understood question that nearly everyone is familiar with. Analyzing the different solutions and theories about what should be done, she comes up with her own path. She does not believe that programs that block children from porn should be used, because she thinks that if we want our future generation to be able to think for themselves then they must at least have the chance to respond on their own to these issues. This seems like a fairly intelligent solution; however, I don't think a lot of parents would go for it.
Out of the porn issue she moves into the question of the digital aesthetic joining with the art world. She explicates that originally the art world resisted the joining of digital media. Recently though, the arts have taken advantage of the Internet primarily because of how much money the realize is in the Internet, especially considering how little funding is out there for the arts. But then the question of ethics comes in again. Gigliotti asks what are people primarily concerned with: teaching, consuming, or making.
To be honest, at the beginning of this piece I felt it was fairly clear, but then as the essay moved on I lost my grasp of what the author was really saying. It wasn't till closer to the last few pages of this essay that I began to understand it again. Still wondering what happened...
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