AUTHOR Catherine Flick, Penny Duquenoy and Matt Jones ABSTRACT “Ghosty” is a network-enabled monitoring device aimed at encouraging discussion in families about children’s internet use, and/or enabling children to better self-monitor their own internet use, in order to promote and reinforce positive internet use and resilience against online predators. It allows children or other household […]
AUTHOR Catherine Flick and Penny Duquenoy ABSTRACT Isis is a project with the aim of developing a set of ethical monitoring tools and frameworks to assist law enforcement agencies in policing Internet chat and file-sharing networks in order to protect children from abuse, particularly that of paedophile activity. The tools aim to automatically detect and […]
AUTHOR Matthew Edwards ABSTRACT 1. Introduction This paper is a follow up from Ethicomp 2010 which proposed that there is a core curriculum in technology education, and that industry could find a place within the public school system. This article will pursue an actual tie between industry interests and a State run university in the […]
AUTHOR Massimo Durante ABSTRACT The theme of “the social impact of social computing” is a central, complex and unavoidable theme of reflection and discussion for our age. The formulation of the theme in terms of “impact” is indeed prudential since it leaves open whether this impact is either governed by the values, interests and decisions […]
AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva and Piotr Pawlak ABSTRACT During ETHICOMP 2008 the authors have proven that tourists’ locational privacy is a myth (Costa, Silva & Pawlak, 2008)! Hence, the aim of this manuscript is to shed some light over the lack of control of locational privacy, what is […]
AUTHOR Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa , Piotr Pawlak and Nuno Sotero Alves da Silva ABSTRACT A computer game is essentially a game activated by a computer, in which gamers control the items visible on the screen just for fun (Feibel, 2006). Is important to identify the unlike games philology, because computer games can be […]