Abstracts

The Social Impacts of Ubiquitous IT: A Sociotechnical Approach
Jonathan P. Allen

"How Shall I Trust Thee? Let Me Count the Ways." Ethical Judgment and Virtual Business Communities
Alan A Andolsen

"Social behaviour, incentives and technology in peer-to-peer content distribution networks"
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis

University Challenges in Information Society: The Case of Rioja University
Mario Arias-Oliva, Leonor González and Raúl Santiago

Citizens Expectations and Disappointments in Information Society - Case of Romania
Doinita Ariton, Florina Paun, Viorca Ioan, Mihaela Nicolau, Nicoleta Barbuta, Liliana Moga, Florin Buhociu and Carmen Tofan

Extending Artificial Agency to Incorporate Ethics-oriented Social Interaction
Argyris Arnellos, Thomas Spyrou and John Darzentas

Unpredictable risks and the autonomy of the Internet user: the case of KPNQwest
Lotte Asveld

"Local Culture and the E-Business: The Freedom and Threat of Communication"
Constantinos Athanasopoulos

A framework for performing security and ethical analyses in agent computing
A Barnard, E Cloete and L Pretorius

The Teaching of Computer Ethics at State of Califonia Universities, USA and other Countries.
Porfirio Barroso and Gloria Melara

A public threat to protection of privacy? Data retention requirements in the European Union
José Luis Gómez Barroso

Popper on Utilizing Knowledge: Piecemeal Social Engineering, Technological Warnings and Social Design
Herzl Baruch

Impact of Indian Personality Construct of Gunas and Subjective Norms on Software Piracy in the Workplace
Kanika T. Bhal and Nivedita Debnath

Troutian Ethics: an exploration
Andy Bissett

Addressing Ethics in Entertainment Software Development
Andy Bissett, Paul Parry, Innes Ritchie, Bob Steele

Ethics of Information Societies
Wojciech Jerzy Bober

Stakeholder Theory in practice: building better software systems.
Mike Bowern, Craig McDonald and John Weckert

Ethical Issues for the Virtual University
Philip Brey

The ethical challenges facing the Chief Knowledge Officer: some critical comments and practical guidelines.
J J Britz and M M M Snyman

Evaluation of the role of Information Literacy skills in combating social exclusion.
Judith Broady-Preston and Barbara Hull

Lessons learned from the South Korean and Hong Kong Success Stories of Broadband Development: the role of the Government
Jyoti Choudrie and Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou

Ethical evaluation of new ICT-systems in health care
Göran Collste

'Design for All': Socially Responsible Design or just good sense?
Jenny S. Darzentas and John Darzentas

The missing element in an intelligent world
Penny Duquenoy

Developing a model of broadband adoption in the household
Y. K. Dwivedi and J. Choudrie

Ethical Aspects of Using Digital Images of People for Education
Jill Evans and John Mahoney

The Rhetoric of the New Economy
László Fekete

Conflict of Interest Laws in North Carolina, U.S.A.: Past and Present Statutes, and Some Reflections on the Impact of the Computer Age
A. Fleming Bell

Stress, Attitudes, and Personality in Computing
Vangelis Giannoutsos

Proposal for an Accessible Conception Of Cyberspace
David H. Gleason and Lawrence Friedman

Ethical Issues in Virtual Communities Of INNovation
Peter Gloor, Carey Heckman, Fillia Makedon

Something old, something new? What if they clash?
An individual facing the challenge of misguiding guidance
Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska

Software Process Ethics: How much does that Process Cost?
Don Gotterbarn

Ethical Standards For Online Advice Giving: An Overview of the Issues for Business and Financial Advisors.
Fritz H. Grupe and Jeanne Yamaura

Internet against Human Diversity in the Society of Global (but Divers) Information?
Viorel Guliciuc and Emilia Guliciuc

DO INTERNET EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ENCOURAGE GENDER BIAS: A study of the effects of corporate culture on career advancement opportunities for women in the field of ICT
Andra Gumbus and Frances Grodzinsky

The Question at the Foundation of Information Ethics: Does Information Have Intrinsic Value?
Kenneth Einar Himma

Nanoethics: fact, fiction and forecasting
David S. Horner

"The role of information systems staff in the provision for data protection and privacy. A subjective approach."
Richard Howley, Simon Rogerson, N. Ben. Fairweather, Lawrence Pratchett

Building successful on-line learning communities across international boundaries: a Case Study
Pat Jefferies, Frances Grodzinsky and Joe Griffin

Computers as Surrogate Agents
Deborah G. Johnson and Thomas M. Powers

Internet-related Employment Opportunities and Challenges for Women in Japan
Kristen MJ Johnson

Information Systems Security and the Structuring of Organizations
Maria Karyda, Spyros Kokolakis and Evangelos Kiountouzis

What Happens When Law is Used to Protect the Technologies that Protect Copyright?
Ian Kerr and Jane Bailey

Consequentialist Considerations of Intellectual Property Rights in Software and other Digitally Distributable Media
Kai Kimppa

Changes in The Internet Privacy Practices of The Fortune Global 500 Companies
Chula G. King

An Ethical Analysis of the Behaviour of Clinicians using Expert Systems
Heidi King and Simon Rogerson

The Internet in a Turbulent Geography: Fostering Peace and Deepening Enmity in Cyprus
Melih Kirlidog

Compressed Civilization
Łukasz Knasiecki

Operation "Open Source" -- A Challenge for Governments and Citizens of the Information Society
Andrzej Kocikowski

The Practice and the Potential of Electronic Voting.
Mikolaj Kocikowski

No fear or hope, but new weapons. On privacy and technology.
Matthijs Kouw, Edo Schreuders and Lizette Pater

An empirical study investigating the costs and benefits of teleworking and their impact upon teleworkers' productivity and satisfaction
Banita Lal and Jyoti Choudrie

Knowledge Management: The darker side of KM
Frank Land, Sevasti-Melissa Nolas and Urooj Amjad

Open Source Software: A Case of Swift Trust?
Paul B. de Latt

Looking over my Shoulder: The Impact of the PATRIOT Act and other Legal Developments in the United States on the Right to Read and Receive Information
Tomas A. Lipinski

Socially Responsible (Moral) Autonomous Software Agents - "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
Richard Lucas

Teaching Digital Fluency and Computer Responsibility
Peter Madsen

The ethical dilemma of data sharing under risk
Fillia Makedon, C.B. Owen, C. Sudborough, S. Kapidakis, P. Gloor, C. Heckman, J. Ford, J. Pearlman

Privacy and Freedom of Information in Information Society
B R Mandre, C G Aher, D V Patil, Atulchandra Kulkarni

Customizing Web-sites to fit Global Cultures: Proposing an eCulturation Model
Nicholas Mangos and Maz Demosthenous

Web Personalization and the Privacy Concern
Konstantinos Markellos, Penelope Markellou, Maria Rigou, Spiros Sirmakessis and Athanasios Tsakalidis

"Digital Victim or 'Vigilante': Legal and Ethical Limits to Online Self-Defense"
Jeffrey H. Matsuura

Post September 11th Security concerns: the threat to Internet Privacy
Karen McCullagh

Privacy Policies Online: some reflections and conclusions from a continuing investigation
Steve McRobb and Simon Rogerson

Intellectual Property Rights Issues in Information Society
D G Medhi and Hiren K D Sarma

Cyberethics and the South African Electronic Communications and Transactions Act
DP van der Merwe, L Pretorius and A Barnard

Cybernetic diasporic safe places
Ananda Mitra

Securing Software for the Information Society
Robert K. Moniot

Unsolicited Commercial Communication: The intergrated scenario
Evangelos Moustakas and Penny Duquenoy

The Drift of the United States Toward a Surveillance Society in Today's Networked Economy
William H. M. Nelson, III and Anne Nelson

The most relevant drivers and constraints that may influence teleworking implementation in Portugal
Flávio Nunes

The digital diploma: assessing the impact of electronic certification in a Gulf Arab Society.
Brian O'Flynn

The Information Society as a Globalised Society; How Many ICTs Can the Citizen Cope With?
Hendrik Opdebeeck

An Ethical Questioning of Work Place Surveillance - strengthening employees' negotiating power
Elin Palm

Professional Codes and Management Issues
Antony Panteli and Duncan Langford

Perception gaps between policy makers and users along the diffusion process of the Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS) in the UK National Health Service (NHS)
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou, Reshma Gandecha, Christopher Atkinson

In the Eye of the Beholder: Moral disengagement and ethical decision making among Information Systems professionals
Kevin P. Pauli and Tammy Y. Arthur

The direction of evolution of "the political culture" in times of violent expansion of informative techniques
Piotr Pawlak

The impact of mobility on the temporal structuring of virtual organizations
Elpida Prasopoulou, Niki Panteli and Nancy Pouloudi

Surveillance-capable technologies in the workplace: some evidence of the views of the next generation of computer professionals
Mary Prior

Towards a Socially Responsible Economy: The Role of Information Technology
Roderick Mendoza Rupido

Shaping and implementing trans-national e-collaboration: The case of ALADIN
Philip Seltsikas and Helle Zinner Henriksen

I have the power!
Paul Simpkins

Teaching Professional Issues in Computing through the Development of a Student Code of Ethics
Bernd Carsten Stahl, Chris Wood and Richard Howley

Patterns of ethical behaviour and decision making
Stanislaw Szejko

Providing Graduate Computing Students with an Appreciation of Appropriate the Ethical, Professional and Legal Issues
Barrie Thompson and Helen Edwards

Internet and mobile communication between health care from the citizen point of view
Pekka Turunen, Aapo Immonen and Jarmo Tähkäpää

"Being a good computer professional: the advantages of virtue ethics in computing"
Richard Volkman

Privacy and human rights - 1984 revisited or simply the pursuit of a safer society?
Ciaran Ward

Is the Increasing Scarcity of Women in Information Technology a Social Justice Issue?
Caroline E. Wardle, C. Dianne Martin and Valerie A. Clarke

Ethical issues on content distribution to digital consumers via paid placement as opposed to website visibility in search engine results.
Melius Weideman

"Social and ethical implications of virtualization of the business environment in the music sector"
Janusz Wielki

E-Government, Participation or Panopticon?
Sara Wilford