Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 15 Issue 01

Ethics in citizen journalism: incident of teenage girl molestation in India

Somava Pande

New media is reshaping mediated communication. This paper aims to examine whether the online community is concerned about ethical issues in citizen journalism.

An evaluation of corporate social responsibility communication on the websites of telecommunication companies operating in Ghana: Impression management perspectives

Henry Boateng, Ibn Kailan Abdul-Hamid

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication on corporate websites have become an emerging trend by firms. Similarly, corporate websites have been used to manage…

ICTs in the context of disaster management, stakeholders, and implications

Sreedhar Madhavaram, Victor Matos, Ben A. Blake, Radha Appan

This paper aims to focus on the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in preparation for and management of human and/or nature induced disasters.

Corporate philanthropy communication on donor websites

Ricardo Chalmeta, Henna Viinikka

This paper aims to examine whether companies engaging in corporate philanthropy, a component of corporate social responsibility (CSR), disclose information about such activities…

Towards a theoretical mashup for studying posthuman/postsocial ethics

Marcelo El Khouri Buzato

This paper aims to propose a theoretical arrangement for the study of applied computer and information ethics carried out in an interdisciplinary and a democratic manner by which…

Booters: can anything justify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire?

David Douglas, José Jair Santanna, Ricardo de Oliveira Schmidt, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Aiko Pras

This paper aims to examine whether there are morally defensible reasons for using or operating websites (called ‘booters’) that offer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks…