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GLOBAL INFORMATION ETHICS

Perspectives Issue for Journal of the American Society for Information Society and Technology (JASIST) - Call for Papers

Toni Carbo (University of Pittsburgh) and Marti Smith (Drexel University), co-editors

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The Perspectives on Global Information Ethics (IE) will focus on three primary areas:

1) History and Context, 2) Teaching, and 3) Policy. Also of interest are perspectives on: research agendas, in areas such as health care information, electronic government, security, and education; bridges to practice in the information profession, including the role of professionals associations in developing and enforcing codes of ethics; and resources in
information ethics. The History and Context section will cover the history of information ethics from 1988 to the present within the wider context of applied ethics. The context also includes: social networks and patterns in scholarly communications; relation to media ethics, computer ethics, and cyberethics; and diversity in global approaches to Information Ethics and Information/Communication Technology (ICT).

The section on teaching will provide perspectives on which programs are teaching information ethics, what approaches are used, issues related to IE and other related topics. The section on policy will include perspectives on ethical issues related to areas such as: terrorism and national security; privacy and anonymity/pseudonymity; ownership of information (copyright, Information Commons); integrity of information content; preservation/exclusion (also known as removal) in archives/records management; freedom of expression; and credibility and trust on the Web.

The editors are interested in global perspectives on these topics and welcome articles from scholars around the world. Articles should provide:
1) an analysis and synthesis of existing research, 2) issues to be addressed, and 3) suggestions for future research. The papers are not intended to be reports on individual research projects, but should provide broad perspectives on the topic addressed.

DEADLINES

Expression of interest in submitting a paper, along with a one-page abstract


DUE OCTOBER 1, 2005

Final papers will be DUE JANUARY 15, 2006.

Send to: Dr. Toni Carbo, Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 605 IS Building, 135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 USA

Email: tcarbo@mail.sis.pitt.edu Phone: 412 624-9310