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ETHICOMP 2008 PROGRAMME
(at 10th September 2008)

PLENARY
Salone
Mantegnesco
STREAM A
Aula 1
STREAM B
Aula 2
STREAM C
Aula 3
STREAM D
Aula 4
DAY 1 24/09/08 WEDNESDAY
08:30Registration
09:30Opening
10:15Beyond Technology Address by Terry Bynum and Simon Rogerson
11:00Break
11:30 1 Opening Ethical Vistas to IT Professionals
Ian Stoodley and Christine Bruce
Ethics and the ICT Industry – A Research Agenda
Richard Lucas and John Weckert
A Database for Fighting Crimes that haven't been Committed Yet
Lee Gillam and Anna Vartapetiance Salmasi
Preventing the ICT process from leading to Ethical decay in living and working. The Legacy of a Myth
Hendrik Opdebeeck
12:00 2 In Praise of Moral Persuasion
Chuck Huff
Three Challenges for Japanese ICT Professionalism
Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito
The Ethics of the Hacker Taggers: The New Generation of Hackers
Matthew Warren
The Person as Risk, The Person at Risk
Jeroen van den Hoven and Noëmi Manders-Huits
12:30 3 Exploring Motivations for Surprising views about Ethical Issues in Information Systems
Mary Prior, Simon Rogerson and N. Ben Fairweather
IT Professional: Working Beyond Technology
J. Barrie Thompson
History Repeats Itself: The case of Computer Fraud within French Bank Société Générale
Shalini Kesar
Censorship: Case Finland
Kai Kimppa
13:00Lunch
14:30Keynote Address in Aula Magna: Business Ethics In The Web Based Organisations by Bruno Lamborghini
15:30Break
16:00 4 'Wired' Senior Citizens and Online Information Privacy
Sangmi Chai, H. R. Rao, S. Bagchi-Sen and S. Upadhyaya
Control or Not? - A Comparative Analysis of Kids Control in the Internet
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa and Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva
What Model of Trust for Networked Cooperation? Online Social Trust in the Production of Common Goods (Knowledge Sharing)
Massimo Durante
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
16:30 5 Security and Privacy in Web-Oriented Watermarking Protocols
Marina Campidoglio, Franco Frattolillo and Federica Landolfi
Software as a Service. Challenges in Higher Education: Google Apps Case
Mario Arias-Oliva, Alvaro Fuente, Teresa Torres-Coronas and Mar Souto-Romero
Informal Certification based on Authentic Trust
Federico Gobbo and Rosario Sica
Technology Education-Empty Classrooms and Dying Programs
Matthew Edwards
17:00 6 Privacy Enhancing Technologies: An Empirical Study into their Adoption and usage in UK Organisations
Richard Howley and Gilesh Pattni
Multi-layered Monitoring in Virtual Learning Environments: Filling the Policy Vacuum
Mike Leigh and Mary Prior
My Kid's are Angels? – Internet and Kids, A Portuguese Case Study
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa and Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva
17:30End day 1
19:00Civic Reception and Buffet
DAY 2 25/09/08 THURSDAY
09:00 7 Knowledge Versus Content in E-Learning: A Philosophical Discussion!
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva and Simon Rogerson
A Conflict of Rights: The Case of Trips
Göran Collste
Moving open source beyond software while maintaining the public spirit?
Paul B. de Laat
Ethical Assessment of Future-Oriented Design Scenarios
Veikko Ikonen and Eija Kaasinen
09:30 8 Virtual Learning Environments - Revealing Preconditions for Trustful Collaboration and Reflection
Anne Gerdes
Right to ones voice?
Kai Kimppa and Tuomo I. Saarni
Free, Source-Code-Available, or Proprietary: An Ethically Charged, Context-Sensitive Choice
Marty J. Wolf, Keith W. Miller and Frances S. Grodzinsky
Don't blame it on the principles! Uncertainty and uniqueness in ethical technology assessment
Paul Sollie
10:00 9 E-learning in Lusíada Universities - An Ethical and Cultural Inquiry
Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva, Simon Rogerson and Bernd Stahl
Toward a Global Information Ethics: Some Confucian and Aristotelian Considerations
Jin Tong
Googling the Future: The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil
David Sanford Horner
Users' Involvement Helps Respecting Social and Ethical Values and Improving Software Quality
Barbara Begier
10:30 10 The Plagiarism History: Ethics and Internet
Porfirio Barroso, Lucia Tello and Adelaide Marin
Workplace Gossip and Rumor: The Information Ethics Perspective
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Margaryta Anokhina
"Limits" and "Limitations" of the Human Being in the Digital Era
Viorel Guliciuc and Emilia Guliciuc
Freelance Web Developers as Agents of Responsibility in Web Application Development
Malik Aleem Ahmed and Jeroen van den Hoven
11:00Break
11:30 11 Information, Ethos and Sociability: Reflections about the Virtual Community ORKUT on Brazil
Eliany Alvarenga Araujo and Marcos Antonio Alexandre Bezerra
The Ethical Implications of Diversity in ICT
Alfreda Dudley
Free Ride in Knowledge Management? Ethical and Moral Dilemmas!
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Mary Prior and Simon Rogerson
Tutorial: Academic Paper Authorship with Emerald
Lizzie Scott
12:00 12 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
The activities of the European Union aimed at the Protection of Cultural Identity and Heritage in Information Society
Roma Gorzelanczyk
Online File Sharing: Resolving the tensions between Privacy and Property Interests
Frances S. Grodzinsky and Herman T. Tavani
12:30 13 Getting to the Other Side - Beyond the Digital Divide
William M. Fleischman
Cultural Influence of the Internet. The World Wide Web as an Institution of Symbolic Violence as Conceptualize by Pierre Bourdieu
Piotr Pawlak
Freedom, Intellectual Property, and the Flow of Information
Richard Volkman
Into or Across Pages: Between Hypertext and Ekprasis
Diana Pimentel
13:00Lunch
14:30Keynote address in Aula Magna: Social Media and Regulation by Giampaolo Azzoni
15:30Break
16:00 14 Characterization of Social Network Profiles
Luisa Massari
Security and Privacy in the Teaching of Islam and Globalization
Ghulam Ali Khan
Is Computer Ethics Computable?
Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone and Federico Gobbo
A Conceptual Framework for Computer Ethics
Norberto Patrignani
16:30 15 Are Web 2.0 Technologies Instigating the adoption of a Second Life - And is it a life worth living?
Denise Oram
Privacy online and culture: evidence from Japan
Yohko Orito, Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta, Steve McRobb and Andrew A. Adams
Network Neutrality: Ethical Issues in the Internet Era
Matteo Turilli, Antonino Vaccaro and Luciano Floridi
On the Proper Definition of Information
Andras Kornai
17:00 16 E-Goisms: What would the Web be without the others?
Marco Roccetti, Stefano Ferretti, Marco Furini, Claudio E. Palazzi and Paola Salomoni
The Right to Know V The Right to Privacy
Paul Simpkins and Ibrahim Hasan
The Nature of the Universe, Human Nature and Contemporary Information Ethics
Terrell Ward Bynum
Nine Editions of ETHICOMP: A Content Analysis
Angel Luis Garcia and Porfirio Barroso
17:30End of day 2
20:00Conference Dinner
DAY 3 26/09/08 FRIDAY
09:00 17 Healthcare Beyond the Surgery Boundaries: A Diabetes Case Study
Peggy Gregory and Donal Flynn
Socio-Cognitive Destruction: Reality or Fiction? - And the Imperative of Ethics
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa and Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva
Something Beyond Technology: Some remarks on Ignorance and its role in Evolution
Ugo Pagallo
Public versus Private Domain : Knowledge and Information in the Global Communications Network
László Fekete
09:30 18 Lab-on-a-Chip: An Ethical Assessment of Self-Testing Devices of HIV
Ndukwe Cajetan Okechukwu
Robot Ethics: Why "Friendly AI" Won't Work
Thomas Blake, Bernd Carsten Stahl and N.B. Fairweather
Information Security - Security for whom and why? An ethical analysis of conditions for morally defensible IS
Elin Palm
Public Awareness of Copyright Issues: A Perspective for the Future
Maria Canellopoulou-Bottis
10:00 19 Can Micro World Simulations Assess and Stimulate Ethical Competence?
Mikael Laaksoharju and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
The Ethics of Video Games: Mayhem, Death, and the Training of the Next Generation
Donald Gotterbarn
Ethics and Diversity: How Significant is Ethics in the Argument for Diversity? Age and ICT: Some Preliminary Observations
Mike Healy
Examining the Influence of Demographic Factors on Ethical Awareness: Computer Use and Security
Maslin Masrom and Zuraini Ismail
10:30 20 The Human Centred Approach to Bionanotechnology - Ethical Considerations
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Miguel Araújo da Silva and Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva
The Shaping of Human Cognition by Information Technology
John Weckert and Craig McDonald
Critical Moment's in Managers/Leaders Ethical and Responsible Decision-Making in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Enterprises
Mirja Liisa Airos
Knowledge and Democracy in the ICT-based Global Society: Will Blogs De-Throne Science?
Krystyna Górniak-Kocikowska
11:00Break
11:30 21 Feasibility of Web-Based Training for CAD (Computer Aided Design)
Richard Cozzens
The Impact of Search Engines on Contemporary Organizations - The Social and Ethical Implications
Janusz Wielki
Using ICT to Improve Democratic Processes
Mike Bowern
Heteronomy and Ontology Co-Evolution in Information Systems
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato and Remo Pareschi
12:00 22 Barriers to Exit in Communities on the Web: Description, Business Causes and Effects on Users
Roberto Garigliano and Luisa Mich
Gold Farming
Kai Kimppa and Andy Bissett
Information and Communication Technologies for Consolidating Democracy: A Case Study from India
Sunil Kumar, Manju Dhariwal, Arun K Pujari and Raghubir Sharan
Individual Ethics and Knowledge Management: Arising Conflicts
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Mary Prior and Simon Rogerson
12:30 23 Ethical Implications of Internet Monitoring: A Comparative Study
Frances S. Grodzinsky, Stephen Lilley and Andra Gumbus
Working in Indian Call Centers – Preliminary Findings
Ananda Mitra
Measuring up to E-Government, A view from the Shelves
M.J.Phythian, N.B.Fairweather and R.G Howley
Users Perceptions of Barriers in using ICT for CRM in the Banking Sector in Oman
Salim Hilal Al-Mamari and Miguel Baptista Nunes
13:00Lunch
14:30Question Time Panel
15:45Closing remarks including conference overview
16:15End of conference

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