Abstracts

Freelance Web Developers as Agents of Responsibility in Web Application Development
Malik Aleem Ahmed, Jeroen van den Hoven

Critical Moment's in Managers/Leaders Ethical and Responsible Decision-Making in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Enterprises
Mirja Liisa Airos

Heteronomy and Ontology Co-Evolution in Information Systems
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato, Remo Pareschi

Information, Ethos and Sociability: Reflections about the Virtual Community ORKUT on Brazil
Eliany Alvarenga Araujo, Marcos Antonio Alexandre Bezerra

Social Media and Regulation
Giampaolo Azzoni

The Plagiarism History: Ethics and Internet
Porfirio Barroso, Lucia Tello, Adelaide Marin

Users' Involvement Helps Respecting Social and Ethical Values and Improving Software Quality
Barbara Begier

Robot Ethics: Why "Friendly AI" Won't Work
Thomas Blake, Bernd Carsten Stahl, N.B. Fairweather

Public Awareness of Copyright Issues: A Perspective for the Future
Maria Canellopoulou-Bottis

Using ICT to Improve Democratic Processes
Mike Bowern

The Nature of the Universe, Human Nature and Contemporary Information Ethics
Terrell Ward Bynum

Security and Privacy in Web-Oriented Watermarking Protocols
Marina Campidoglio, Franco Frattolillo, Federica Landolfi

'Wired' Senior Citizens and Online Information Privacy
Sangmi Chai, H. R. Rao, S. Bagchi-Sen, S. Upadhyaya

A Conflict of Rights: The Case of Trips
Göran Collste

Free Ride in Knowledge Management? Ethical and Moral Dilemmas!
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Mary Prior, Simon Rogerson

Control or Not? - A Comparative Analysis of Kids Control in the Internet
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa

Individual Ethics and Knowledge Management: Arising Conflicts
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Mary Prior, Simon Rogerson

My Kid's are Angels? – Internet and Kids, A Portuguese Case Study
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa and Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva

Socio-Cognitive Destruction: Reality or Fiction? - And the Imperative of Ethics
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva

Knowledge Versus Content in E-Learning: A Philosophical Discussion!
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva, Bernd Stahl, Mary Prior, Simon Rogerson

The Human Centred Approach to Bionanotechnology - Ethical Considerations
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva

Feasibility of Web-Based Training for CAD (Computer Aided Design)
Richard Cozzens

Workplace Gossip and Rumor: The Information Ethics Perspective
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Margaryta Anokhina

The Ethical Implications of Diversity in ICT
Alfreda Dudley

What Model of Trust for Networked Cooperation? Online Social Trust in the Production of Common Goods (Knowledge Sharing)
Massimo Durante

Technology Education-Empty Classrooms and Dying Programs
Matthew Edwards

Public versus Private Domain : Knowledge and Information in the Global Communications Network
László Fekete

Getting to the Other Side - Beyond the Digital Divide
William M. Fleischman

Nine Editions of ETHICOMP: A Content Analysis
Angel Luis Garcia, Porfirio Barroso

Barriers to Exit in Communities on the Web: Description, Business Causes and Effects on Users
Roberto Garigliano, Luisa Mich

Virtual Learning Environments – Revealing Preconditions for Trustful Collaboration and Reflection
Anne Gerdes

A Database for Fighting Crimes that haven't been Committed Yet
Lee Gillam, Anna Vartapetiance Salmasi

Ethics on a Chip? Some General Remarks on DRM, Internet Filtering and Trusted Computing
Andrea Glorioso

Informal Certification based on Authentic Trust
Federico Gobbo, Rosario Sica

The activities of the European Union aimed at the Protection of Cultural Identity and Heritage in Information Society
Roma Gorzelanczyk

The Ethics of Video Games: Mayhem, Death, and the Training of the Next Generation
Donald Gotterbarn

Ambient Intelligence Technology - Critical Perspective, Ethical and Societal Issues
Philippe Goujon

Healthcare Beyond the Surgery Boundaries: A Diabetes Case Study
Peggy Gregory, Donal Flynn

Ethical Implications of Internet Monitoring: A Comparative Study
Frances S. Grodzinsky, Stephen Lilley, Andra Gumbus

Online File Sharing: Resolving the tensions between Privacy and Property Interests
Frances S. Grodzinsky, Herman T. Tavani

"Limits" and "Limitations" of the Human Being in the Digital Era
Viorel Guliciuc, Emilia Guliciuc

Ethics and Diversity: How Significant is Ethics in the Argument for Diversity? Age and ICT: Some Preliminary Observations
Mike Healy

Rethinking Plagiarism in a Virtual World
Lawrence M. Hinman

Googling the Future: The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil
David Sanford Horner

The Person as Risk, The Person at Risk
Jeroen van den Hoven, Noëmi Manders-Huits

Privacy Enhancing Technologies: An Empirical Study into their Adoption and usage in UK Organisations
Richard Howley, Gilesh Pattni

In Praise of Moral Persuasion
Chuck Huff

Ethical Assessment of Future-Oriented Design Scenarios
Veikko Ikonen, Eija Kaasinen

History Repeats Itself: The case of Computer Fraud within French Bank Société Générale
Shalini Kesar

Security and Privacy in the Teaching of Islam and Globalization
Ghulam Ali Khan

Censorship: Case Finland
Kai Kimppa

Gold Farming
Kai Kimppa, Andy Bissett

Right to ones voice?
Kai K. Kimppa, Tuomo I. Saarni

Knowledge and Democracy in the ICT-based Global Society: Will Blogs De-Throne Science?
Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska

On the Proper Definition of Information
Andras Kornai

Information and Communication Technologies for Consolidating Democracy: A Case Study from India
Sunil Kumar, Manju Dhariwal, Arun K Pujari, Raghubir Sharan

Can Micro World Simulations Assess and Stimulate Ethical Competence?
Mikael Laaksoharju, Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos

Moving open source beyond software while maintaining the public spirit?
Paul B. de Laat

Is Computer Ethics Computable?
Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone, Federico Gobbo

Multi-layered Monitoring in Virtual Learning Environments: Filling the Policy Vacuum
Mike Leigh, Mary Prior

Ethics and the ICT Industry - A Research Agenda
Richard Lucas, John Weckert

Users Perceptions of Barriers in using ICT for CRM in the Banking Sector in Oman
Salim Hilal Al-Mamari, Miguel Baptista Nunes

When Speed Truly Matters, Openness is the Answer
Antonio Marturano

Examining the Influence of Demographic Factors on Ethical Awareness: Computer Use and Security
Maslin Masrom, Zuraini Ismail

Characterization of Social Network Profiles
Luisa Massari

Working in Indian Call Centers - Preliminary Findings
Ananda Mitra

Three Challenges for Japanese ICT Professionalism
Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito

Lab-on-a-Chip: An Ethical Assessment of Self-Testing Devices of HIV
Ndukwe Cajetan Okechukwu

Software as a Service. Challenges in Higher Education: Google Apps Case
Mario Arias-Oliva, Alvaro Fuente, Teresa Torres-Coronas, Mar Souto-Romero

Preventing the ICT process from leading to Ethical decay in living and working. The Legacy of a Myth
Hendrik Opdebeeck

Are Web 2.0 Technologies Instigating the adoption of a Second Life - And is it a life worth living?
Denise Oram

Online Privacy and Culture: Evidence from Japan
Yohko Orito, Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta, Steve McRobb, Andrew A. Adams

Something Beyond Technology: Some remarks on Ignorance and its role in Evolution
Ugo Pagallo

Information Security - Security for whom and why?
Elin Palm

A Conceptual Framework for Computer Ethics
Norberto Patrignani

Cultural Influence of the Internet. The World Wide Web as an Institution of Symbolic Violence as Conceptualize by Pierre Bourdieu
Piotr Pawlak

Measuring up to E-Government, A view from the Shelves
M.J.Phythian, N.B.Fairweather, R.G Howley

Exploring Motivations for Surprising views about Ethical Issues in Information Systems
Mary Prior, Simon Rogerson, N. Ben Fairweather

E-Goisms: What would the Web be without the others?
Marco Roccetti, Stefano Ferretti, Marco Furini, Claudio E. Palazzi, Paola Salomoni

Social or anti-social networking sites? The potential risks of social networking sites to adolescents and their impact on individuals, schools and the educational process
Anne Rogerson

Engendering Action to Fill the Gap of Ethnic Minority Employability: A Study on Working for Families Project for Women in Scotland
Nidhi Sharma, Shalini Kesar and Diane Milne

E-learning in Lusíada Universities - An Ethical and Cultural Inquiry
Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva, Simon Rogerson, Bernd Stahl

The Right to Know V The Right to Privacy
Paul Simpkins, Ibrahim Hasan

Don't blame it on the principles! Uncertainty and uniqueness in ethical technology assessment
Paul Sollie

Opening Ethical Vistas to IT Professionals
Ian Stoodley, Christine Bruce

IT Professional: Working Beyond Technology
J. Barrie Thompson

Toward a Global Information Ethics: Some Confucian and Aristotelian Considerations
Jin Tong

Network Neutrality: Ethical Issues in the Internet Era
Matteo Turilli, Antonino Vaccaro, Luciano Floridi

Freedom, Intellectual Property, and the flow of Information
Richard Volkman

The Ethics of the Hacker Taggers: The New Generation of Hackers
Matthew Warren

The Shaping of Human Cognition by Information Technology
John Weckert, Craig McDonald

The Impact of Search Engines on Contemporary Organizations - The Social and Ethical Implications
Janusz Wielki

Free, Source-Code-Available, or Proprietary: An Ethically Charged, Context-Sensitive Choice
Marty J. Wolf, Keith W. Miller, Frances S. Grodzinsky