Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society: Volume 21 Issue 1

Artificial intelligence and climate change: ethical issues

Anders Nordgren

The purpose of this paper is to pinpoint and analyse ethical issues raised by the dual role of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to climate change, that is, AI as a…

Federated data as a commons: a third way to subject-centric and collective-centric approaches to data epistemology and politics

Stefano Calzati

This study advances a reconceptualization of data and information which overcomes normative understandings often contained in data policies at national and international levels…

Climate change disclosure and sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the 2030 agenda: the moderating role of corporate governance

Mohamed Toukabri, Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Youssef

This study is justified by the economic importance of information on greenhouse gases, as well as the interest in the question of governance structure after the adoption of the…

Journalistic ethics and elections news coverage in the Ghanaian press: a content analysis of two daily Ghanaian newspaper coverage of election 2020

Mohammed Faisal Amadu, Eliasu Mumuni, Ahmed Taufique Chentiba

This study investigates the incidence of ethical violations in the Ghanaian press which has become topical in the wake of misinformation in a charged political atmosphere. Public…

Effects of health misinformation on misbeliefs: understanding the moderating roles of different types of knowledge

Weirui Wang, Susan Jacobson

Health misinformation poses severe risks to people’s health decisions and outcomes. A great deal of research in this area has focused on debunking misinformation and found limited…

SAT: a methodology to assess the social acceptance of innovative AI-based technologies

Carmela Occhipinti, Antonio Carnevale, Luigi Briguglio, Andrea Iannone, Piercosma Bisconti

The purpose of this paper is to present the conceptual model of an innovative methodology (SAT) to assess the social acceptance of technology, especially focusing on artificial…

The ethics of artificial intelligence, UNESCO and the African Ubuntu perspective

Dorine Eva van Norren

This paper aims to demonstrate the relevance of worldviews of the global south to debates of artificial intelligence, enhancing the human rights debate on artificial intelligence…

Social punishment by the distribution of aggressive TikTok videos against women in a traditional society

Ben-Atar Ella, Ben-Asher Smadar, Druker Shitrit Shirley

Online violence has been rampant in the past decade, intensifying the victims’ suffering owing to its rapid dissemination to vast audiences. This study aims to focus on online…

Push-pull factors and means-end chain framework of cyberloafing: a soft laddering study using LadderUX

Sauvik Kumar Batabyal, Kanika Tandon Bhal

Previous studies on cyberloafing have so far not focused on the interlinkages among push factors, pull factors, consequences of actions and value orientations of the employees in…