Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 19 Issue 1

Ethical practice in sharing and mining medical data

Kevin Watson, Dinah M. Payne

The purpose of this paper is to review current practice in sharing and mining medical data revealing benefits, costs and ethical issues. Based on stakeholder perspectives and…

Otherness as a form of intersubjective social exclusion: Conceptual discussion from the current communicative scenario

Luis M. Romero-Rodriguez, Sabina Civila, Ignacio Aguaded

This study aims to review the theory based on «otherness» as a form of social exclusion and symbolic violence from the constructions of realities of the media, with particular…

Consumer protection and electronic commerce in the Sultanate of Oman

Rakesh Belwal, Rahima Al Shibli, Shweta Belwal

Within a larger mandate of reviewing the key global trends concerning consumer protection in the electronic commerce (e-commerce) literature, this study aims to study the legal…

Artificial intelligence ethics guidelines for developers and users: clarifying their content and normative implications

Mark Ryan, Bernd Carsten Stahl

The purpose of this paper is clearly illustrate this convergence and the prescriptive recommendations that such documents entail. There is a significant amount of research into…

Rogue people: on adversarial crowdsourcing in the context of cyber security

Mohammad Moradi, Qi Li

Over the past decade, many research works in various disciplines have benefited from the endless ocean of people and their potentials (in the form of crowdsourcing) as an…

eWOM, what are we suspecting? Motivation, truthfulness or identity

Xiao Zhang, Yun Wu, Wendy Wang

As fake information has become the norm on the internet, it is important to investigate how skepticism impacts an individual’s attitude toward word-of-mouth (eWOM). This study…

Safe online ethical code for and by the “net generation”: themes emerging from school students’ wisdom of the crowd

Amit Lavie Dinur, Matan Aharoni, Yuval Karniel

Children are becoming heavy users of communication and information technologies from an early age. These technologies carry risks to which children may be exposed. In…

The long-term effects of digital literacy programs for disadvantaged populations: analyzing participants’ perceptions

Azi Lev-On, Nili Steinfeld, Hama Abu-Kishk, Sigal Pearl Naim

This study aims to examine the long-term effects of an Israeli digital literacy government program for disadvantaged populations, as they are perceived by participants of the…

Adopting social media as an information system – a case study of an internet service company in Abuja, Nigeria

Otobong Inieke, Babatunde Mustapha Raimi-Lawal

In considering the ubiquity of information systems (ISs) and the increasingly important role served in modern business and service delivery, social media if properly leveraged…