Publication ethics: stressing the positive

Abstract

Purpose

This paper discusses the publication “Challenges to ethical publishing in the digital era”.

Design/methodology/approach

It is a critical analysis of the paper built around two main arguments: the need to stress the positive in ethical debates; the critique of apolitical professionalism; the crucial need to stress the ties between politics and ethics.

Findings

No finding — it was simply argument.

Research limitations/implications

Provocative challenge to dominant ethical debates.

Practical implications

The need to challenge the myths of professionalism.

Originality/value

The need for the academe to embrace more the work coming out of the alternative public sphere.

Citation

Keeble, R. (2016), "Publication ethics: stressing the positive", Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 20-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-10-2015-0037