Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 20 Issue 1

Discovering social media topics and patterns in the coronavirus and election era

Mahdi Hashemi

This study aims to understand the relationship between politics and pandemics in shaping the characteristics and themes of people’s Tweets during the US 2020 presidential…

Ethical aspects of voice assistants: a critical discourse analysis of Indonesian media texts

Anisa Aini Arifin, Thomas Taro Lennerfors

Voice assistant (VA) technology is one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence applications at present. However, the burgeoning scholarship argues that there are ethical…

Young adults know that their issues are not represented in the news: Israeli young adults and mainstream news media

Benny Nuriely, Moti Gigi, Yuval Gozansky

This paper aims to analyze the ways socio-economic issues are represented in mainstream news media and how it is consumed, understood and interpreted by Israeli young adults…

Youth and online privacy: a cross-border study in the Basque Country

Eneko Bidegain, Amaia Arroyo Sagasta, Koldo Diaz Bizkarguenaga, Aitor Zuberogoitia, Eneko Antón, Ixiar Rozas

This study aims to explore the main concerns and attitudes Basque adolescents have regarding online privacy. It analyzes their motivations for sharing private information and the…

Perspectives on computing ethics: a multi-stakeholder analysis

Damian Gordon, Ioannis Stavrakakis, J. Paul Gibson, Brendan Tierney, Anna Becevel, Andrea Curley, Michael Collins, William O’Mahony, Dympna O’Sullivan

Computing ethics represents a long established, yet rapidly evolving, discipline that grows in complexity and scope on a near-daily basis. Therefore, to help understand some of…

Cyberattacks as “state of exception” reconceptualizing cybersecurity from prevention to surviving and accommodating

Sebastian Knebel, Mario D. Schultz, Peter Seele

This paper aims to outline how destructive communication exemplified by ransomware cyberattacks destroys the process of organization, causes a “state of exception,” and thus…

Job insecurity and technology acceptance: an asymmetric dependence

Oxana Krutova, Tuuli Turja, Pertti Koistinen, Harri Melin, Tuomo Särkikoski

Existing research suggests that the competitive advantage provided by technological development depends to a large extent on the speed and coordination of the technology’s…

Proposing a model of social media user interaction with fake news

Abhijeet R. Shirsat, Angel F. González, Judith J. May

This study aims to understand the allure and danger of fake news in social media environments and propose a theoretical model of the phenomenon.

Exploring the factors influencing adoption of health-care wearables among generation Z consumers in India

Bishwajit Nayak, Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Saurabh Kumar, Rohan Kumar Jumnani

The purpose of this study is to identify the major factors influencing the adoption of health-care wearables in generation Z (Gen Z) customers in India. A conceptual framework…