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{"title":"Exploring the socio-cultural aspects of e-learning delivery in Saudi Arabia","authors":"R. Luppicini, Eman Walabe","doi":"10.1108/jices-03-2021-0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-03-2021-0034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to explore the socio-cultural aspects of e-learning delivery in Saudi universities from the perspectives of universities’ instructors and expert designers from the Ministry of Education. More specifically, this study examined the opportunities and challenges faced in the development of online learning environments at Saudi universities from a socio-cultural perspective.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This qualitative research study addressed pervasive socio-cultural challenges connected to e-learning delivery in Saudi Arabia. Data collection methods consisted of 28 in-depth insider expert interviews as well a thematic analysis of documents related to socio-cultural aspects of e-learning delivery in Saudi Arabia.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Findings from the data analysis uncovered two main thematic areas connected to e-learning delivery in Saudi Arabia, namely, culture and female access to e-learning.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000This research contributes original knowledge to international online learning research about the social and cultural complexity connected to online learning development in Saudi Arabia, as well as in other areas of the Arabic world where similar e-learning development initiatives are underway.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000This research contributes original knowledge to international online learning research about the social and cultural complexity connected to online learning development in Saudi Arabia, as well as in other areas of the Arabic world where similar e-learning development initiatives are underway.\u0000\u0000\u0000Social implications\u0000This research contributes unique knowledge about the social and cultural complexity connected to online learning development in Saudi Arabia, as well as in other areas of the Arabic world where similar e-learning development initiatives are underway.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The interaction between Saudi culture and online learning has nurtured a unique learning model that adapts to cultural values to provide a quality learning experience.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128785613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the complexities of studying sensitive communities online as a researcher-participant","authors":"Ylva Hård af Segerstad","doi":"10.1108/jices-01-2021-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-01-2021-0011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This study aims to explore the complexities of methodological, ethical and emotional challenges of studying sensitive and vulnerable communities online from the perspective of simultaneously being a researcher and a research subject. The point of departure for these explorations consists of the author’s past and ongoing studies of the role and use of a closed grief support group on Facebook for bereaved parents – a community of which the author is a member. The aim is not to provide ready solutions for “how to do ethics,” but rather to contribute to the collective and ongoing work initiated by the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), among others, and to recognize the necessity of ethical pluralism, cross-cultural awareness and an interdisciplinary approach.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This is an explorative study, drawing on an (auto)ethnographic case study. The case serves as a point of departure for discussing the complexities of methodological, ethical and emotional challenges of studying sensitive and vulnerable communities online from the perspective of simultaneously being a researcher and a research subject.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Being a researcher and a research subject rolled into one, as it were, presents both opportunities and challenges. To conduct responsible research from both these perspectives pose high demands on the researchers’ ethical as well as emotional capacities and responsibilities. Hopes and expectancies of the community under study might put the researcher into a dilemma, ethical aspects of anonymity and informed consent might have to be reconsidered as well as emotional challenges of engaging in and with sensitive research, all of which makes for a complex balancing act. Ethics and methods are inextricably intertwined, so are the emotional challenges of conducting sensitive research intermingled. Studying vulnerable individuals and closed communities online highlights the necessity for case and context sensitive research and for flexibility, adaptivity and mindfulness of the researcher. It also highlights the importance of discussing and questioning theoretical, methodological and ethical developments for studying everyday life practices online.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The challenges encountered in this case study contribute to the experientially grounded approach to research ethics emphasized in AoIR’s ethics guidelines. This case offers an opportunity to explore and discuss complex issues arising from the researcher’s insider position in a closed group devoted to the sensitive topic of supporting bereaved parents. Further, it highlights the necessity for research to be case and context sensitive as well as for the researcher and the research design to be flexible and adaptive. Research on vulnerable communities also heightens the demands of ethical responsibility of the researcher and the research process.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127615144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Thailand national AI ethics guideline: an analysis","authors":"Soraj Hongladarom","doi":"10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The paper aims to analyze the content of the newly published National AI Ethics Guideline in Thailand. Thailand’s ongoing political struggles and transformation has made it a good case to see how a policy document such as a guideline in AI ethics becomes part of the transformations. Looking at how the two are interrelated will help illuminate the political and cultural dynamics of Thailand as well as how governance of ethics itself is conceptualized.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The author looks at the history of how the National AI Ethics Guidelines came to be and interprets its content, situating the Guideline within the contemporary history of the country as well as comparing the Guideline with some of the leading existing guidelines.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000It is found that the Guideline represents an ambivalent and paradoxical nature that characterizes Thailand’s attempt at modernization. On the one hand, there is a desire to join the ranks of the more advanced economies, but, on the other hand, there is also a strong desire to maintain its own traditional values. Thailand has not been successful in resolving this tension yet, and this lack of success is shown in the way that content of the AI Ethics Guideline is presented.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The findings of the paper could be useful for further attempts in drafting and revising AI ethics guidelines in the future.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The paper represents the first attempt, so far as the author is aware, to analyze the content of the Thai AI Ethics Guideline critically.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133671949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethical challenges of researching emergent socio-material-technological phenomena: insights from an interdisciplinary mixed-methods project using mobile eye-tracking","authors":"Katja Kaufmann, T. Bork-Hüffer, Niklas Gudowsky, M. Rauhala, M. Rutzinger","doi":"10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to discuss research ethics in mixed-methods research (MMR) and MMR development with a focus on ethical challenges that stem from working with technical instruments such as mobile eye-trackers.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The case of an interdisciplinary mixed-methods development study that aimed at researching the impacts of emerging mobile augmented-reality technologies on the perception of public places serves as an example to discuss research-ethical challenges regarding (1) the practical implementation of the study, (2) data processing and management and (3) societal implications of developing instruments to track and understand human practices.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study reports challenges and experiences in ethical decision-making in the practical implementation of the study regarding the relationship to research subjects, the use of mobile research instruments in public places and the interdisciplinary cooperation among research team members. Further, this paper expounds on ethical challenges and recommendations in data processing and management and with a view to societal implications of method development and the aspirations of transdisciplinarity. This study concludes that institutionalized ethics need to become more flexible, while applied ethics and reflection must make their entry into university curricula across disciplines.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Complex interdisciplinary mobile and mixed-methods projects that involve sensors and instruments such as mobile eye-trackers are on the rise. However, there is a significant lack of engagement with practical research ethical challenges, practices and requirements in both mixed-methods and method-development literature. By taking a context- and process-oriented perspective focusing on doing ethics, the paper contributes a concrete empirical case to these underdeveloped fields.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128485708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtue ethics, situationism and casuistry: toward a digital ethics beyond exemplars","authors":"Bastiaan Vanacker","doi":"10.1108/jices-12-2020-0126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-12-2020-0126","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to propose an ethical approach best suited to dealing with the issues of digital ethics in general and internet research ethics in particular.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This article engages with the existing literature on virtue ethics, situationism and digital (research) ethics.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000A virtue-based casuistic method could be well-suited to deal with issues relating to digital ethics in general and internet research ethics in particular as long as it can take place in communities with shared practices and traditions.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000These insights could add and further deepen the rich debate about research ethics that is already ongoing within the internet research community.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"419 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115093710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Security and privacy of adolescents in social applications and networks: legislative aspects and legal practice of countering cyberbullying on example of developed and developing countries","authors":"Ahmad Ghandour, V. Shestak, K. Sokolovskiy","doi":"10.1108/jices-09-2020-0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-09-2020-0101","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to study the developed countries’ experience on the cyberbullying legal regulation among adolescents, to identify existing shortcomings in the developing countries’ laws and to develop recommendations for regulatory framework improvement.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors have studied the state regulatory practice of the UK, the USA, Canada, Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, UAE and analyzed the statistics of 2018 on the cyberbullying manifestation among adolescents in these countries.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The study results can encourage countries to create separate cyberbullying legislation and periodically review and modify already existing legislation.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The study provides a list of the recommendations to regulate cybercrime in developing countries and prevent it as well. The results may contribute to creating laws related to the regulation of cyberbullying in countries where such legislation does not exist yet or existing regulatory legal acts do not bring the expected results, namely, in Post-Soviet countries and other developing countries of the world.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"369 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128683733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global ethics for the digital age - flourishing ethics","authors":"Nesibe Kantar, T. Bynum","doi":"10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to explore an emerging ethical theory for the Digital Age – Flourishing Ethics – which will likely be applicable in many different cultures worldwide, addressing not only human concerns but also activities, decisions and consequences of robots, cyborgs, artificially intelligent agents and other new digital technologies.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000In the past, a number of influential ethical theories in Western philosophy have focused upon choice and autonomy, or pleasure and pain or fairness and justice. These are important ethical concepts, but we consider “flourishing” to be a broader “umbrella concept” under which all of the above ideas can be included, plus additional ethical ideas from cultures in other regions of the world (for example, Buddhist, Muslim, Confucianist cultures and others). Before explaining the applied approach, this study discusses relevant ideas of four example thinkers who emphasize flourishing in their ethics writings: Aristotle, Norbert Wiener, James Moor and Simon Rogerson.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Flourishing Ethics is not a single ethical theory. It is “an approach,” a “family” of similar ethical theories which can be successfully applied to humans in many different cultures, as well as to non-human agents arising from new digital technologies.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This appears to be the first extended analysis of the emerging flourishing ethics “family” of theories.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115317967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of consumers' negative perceptions of health tracking in insurance - a value sacrifice approach","authors":"Antti Talonen, Jukka Mähönen, L. Koskinen, Päivikki Kuoppakangas","doi":"10.1108/jices-05-2020-0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-05-2020-0061","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper explores and identifies customer-value-related sacrifices that consumers attach to interactive health/life insurance. This paper aims to increase understanding of why individual consumers are not willing to embrace behaviour-tracking-based insurance applications.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors analysed data from a qualitative survey of Finnish insurance consumers who were not keen on adopting interactive insurance products.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Developed through thematic analysis, the framework presented in this paper illustrates consumers’ value sacrifices on four dimensions: economic, functional, emotional and symbolic value.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The framework and insights emerging in the study hold several implications related to increased understanding of consumers’ perceptions of insurance and to developing interactive insurance services. In addition, this work provides a promising foundation and avenues for further considerations related to digital ethics in insurance.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first piece applying a value sacrifice perspective in studying consumers’ unwillingness to adopt interactive insurance products.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126223863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward a digital civil society: digital ethics through communication education","authors":"Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock","doi":"10.1108/JICES-03-2020-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-03-2020-0029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000In the face of the enormous rise in digital fraud and criminality, resulting in diverse afflictions to millions of user-victims, emanating from users’ horizontal interactive and transactive exchanges on the internet, but due significantly to internet’s deregulation and anonymity, this study aims to showcase the need for a socially grounded self-regulation. It holds, that this is feasible and that it can be achieved through large scale, comprehensive digital communication education (DCE) programs.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The composite methodology of the study comprises four types of components, namely, analytic, exploratory-discursive, constructionist and propositional. The construction-creation element consists of the design of an original combinational research tool: triangular relational pattern (TRP). Through TRPs, researchers can locate the types of relations involved between three implicated entities, namely, the affliction, the culprit and the victim and can study them in-depth. Subsequently, based on the TRP, DCE programs are composed, which are, also, proposed to be deployed by educational authorities and digital civil society associations.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The created, applied here and proposed TRPs can be used by other researchers aiming to locate, map and analyze the variants of internet criminality and victimhood and their implications across the global frontierless world and in the digital human condition, educational purposes but also to create social cohesion.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The study offers two original contributions. The TRP as a significant relational research tool-grid. The DCE programs that are linked to the repertories of digital relations and can be introduced in the general education programs.\u0000","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122695009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A call to technologists to ensure that responsible outcomes arise from their innovations","authors":"Aaditeshwar Seth","doi":"10.1108/jices-03-2020-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-03-2020-0032","url":null,"abstract":"We explain in this article why it is difficult to ensure responsible outcomes from technology. We explore several reasons, ranging from gaps in the design methods in use in most organizations, a piecemeal approach to following ethical principles in the design and management of technologies, influence of the organizational culture and structure, and the wider political economy of technology itself. We believe however that most technologists who design and manage these technologies would want to minimize harm that arises from their innovations, and as a possible route we raise a call to them to collectivize so that they can be more closely involved in defining the priorities of their organizations, their countries, and the world.","PeriodicalId":156416,"journal":{"name":"J. Inf. Commun. Ethics Soc.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116545053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}