Information Ethics
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This article is a survey of ethical considerations that will arise as the big data technologies are utilized in the developing countries. There are three of them, namely privacy, inequality and abuse of power. These concerns are also... more
The essential difficulty about Computer Ethics’ (CE) philosophical status is a methodological problem: standard ethical theories cannot easily be adapted to deal with CE-problems, which appear to strain their conceptual resources, and CE... more
The subject of the article is the relationship between information ethics and abortions. First, two kinds of information ethics are defined (information microethics and information macroethics) on the basis of the epistemological and... more
This paper focusses on the usage of artificial intelligence in the health care services, from the perspectives of ethical and humanitarian. In health care, the issue of using AI assistive technologies raises different perspectives. First,... more
are two of a long series of studies conducted over the past decade on the status of cybersecurity. From year to year, data about cyber attacks and their impact continue to increase indicating that cyber attacks pose an ever-growing threat... more
The field of three dimensional bioprinting is on the rise. Already great strides have been made toward making printing human tissue and eventually organs a reality. But as any great innovation, said to revolutionize our way of living,... more
This mixed-methods study investigates the hypothesis that playing Defcon, a nuclear warfare simulation game, can affect attitudes toward nuclear weapons and stimulate critical reflection on this issue. Participants were 141 college... more
This is a unique opportunity for early career researchers to join The Alan Turing Institute. The Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is the UK’s new national institute for data science, established to bring together world-leading expertise to... more
There is currently an obvious concern about the dilemmas, perplexities and fatigue of ethics, which are predominantly assumed in the field of philosophical research, and from there to other disciplines. This text proposes to raise an... more
Abstract: Information rights include rights to create and communicate information (eg, freedom of expression, freedom of association), to control others' access to information (eg, privacy and intellectual property), and rights to access... more
The paper lays out a roadmap for implementing privacy principles in an enterprise content management implementation.
Big data is a catch term for the massive amount of data collected continually through individual interaction with ubiquitous technology and the multitude of processes and procedures running in the background to support and record today's... more
This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot... more
Abstract: It has been recommended that parents monitor their children's Internet use, including what sites they visit, what messages they receive, and what they post. In this paper, I argue that parents ought not follow this advice,... more
Do we have a right to transparency when we use content personalization systems? Building on prior work in discrimination detection in data mining, I propose algorithm auditing as a compatible ethical duty for providers of content... more
There is a growing interest in the research of malware in the context of cyber-security. In this paper I will present a case study that will outline the curriculum used to teach malware ethics within the context of a computer science... more
This study was designed to investigate the perception and practice of Information Ethics by librarians in four higher institutions in Oyo State, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted with population size consisted of 47 librarians... more
Technical design can produce exclusionary and even discriminatory effects for users. A lack of discriminatory intent is insufficient to avoid discriminatory design, since implicit assumptions about users rarely include all relevant user... more
In this global information age, accessing, disseminating, and controlling information is an increasingly important aspect of human life. Often, these interests are expressed in the language of human rights—for example, rights to... more
Privacy is currently at the centre of a fierce battle. On one side, powerful data companies like Google, Facebook, and major data brokers are collecting and analysing as much personal data as they can. They are lobbying governments around... more
This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights. It uses insights obtained from the Buddhist teachings on Non-Self to create an alternative theory of privacy. In doing so, the author first... more
Phronetic organizational research is an approach to the study of management and organizations focusing on ethics and power. It is based on a contemporary interpretation of the Aristotelian concept phronesis, usually as ‘prudence’.... more
The Aalborg Project may be interpreted as a metaphor of modern politics, modern administration and planning, and of modernity itself. The basic idea of the project was comprehensive, coherent, and innovative, and it was based on rational... more
Critical Data Studies (CDS) explore the unique cultural, ethical, and critical challenges posed by Big Data. Rather than treat Big Data as only scientifically empirical and therefore largely neutral phenomena, CDS advocates the view that... more
At the same time that case studies are widely used and have produced canonical texts, it may be observed that the case study as a methodology is generally held in low regard, or is simply ignored, within the academy. For example, only 2... more
This paper put forwards a theory of information ethics based on the concept of an 'information access state'; an information access state is a relation between a person or persons and some information. I argue that this framework is... more
- Result of “the Onlife Initiative,” a one-year project funded by the European Commission to study the deployment of ICTs and its effects on the human condition - Inspires reflection on the ways in which a hyperconnected world forces the... more
Critical Ethics (as a unified account of normative and meta-ethics) uses critical thinking to get around the limitations of personal belief and indoctrination to get to what ought to be done and why to improve the human condition. For,... more
Digital sampling is a technique used for music production within the past thirty years, mostly through the Hip-hop genre and its subgenres, while it has been widely used in newer aspects of music evolution after the new millennium.... more
In this paper we argue that the use of the communicative theory of Jürgen Habermas in planning theory is problematic because it hampers an understanding of how power shapes planning. We posit an alternative approach based on the power... more
The following paper will trace the recently established field of Information Ethics through it’s various evolutions, from it’s origins in Librarianship to it’s role as a global player in areas as diverse as technology, media, global... more
This paper has two distinct but related goals: (1) to identify some of the potential consequences of the Internet for our cognitive abilities and (2) to suggest an approach to evaluate these consequences. I begin by outlining the Google... more
This study was designed to investigate the perception and practice of Information Ethics by librarians in four higher institutions in Oyo State, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted with population size consisted of 47 librarians... more
... The focus of this article is how the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the US Public Health Service (PHS), as well as the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), are evaluating reports of... more