Users’ Involvement Helps Respecting Social and Ethical Values and Improving Software Quality

AUTHOR Barbara Begier ABSTRACT Users’ involvement in a software process is recommended to respect ethical and social values and to provide software quality from the user’s point of view. The questionnaire survey is reported ? its aim was to get learn what threats associated with an informatization on a large scale are pointed out by […]

The Plagiarism History: Ethics and Internet

AUTHOR Porfirio Barroso, Lucía Tello and Adelaide Marin ABSTRACT The purpose of this investigation, focuses on the different concepts of plagiarism that we use now and have been using trough history, starting from its etymologic origin to the new concepts plagiarism stand for with the arrival of personal computers and Internet. We intend to show […]

Social Media and Regulation

AUTHOR Giampaolo Azzoni ABSTRACT In order to develop the civil and economic potential of social media, not only operators, but also governments and international institutions, should operate towards the construction of a blogosphere conceived as a spontaneous order (in the sense of Hayek), an open society (in the sense of Popper) and a plural space […]

Information, Ethos and Sociability: Reflections about the Virtual Community ORKUT on Brazil

AUTHOR Eliany Alvarenga Araujo, Marcos Antonio Alexandre Bezerra ABSTRACT The information technology and digital communication, present in our globalized society – The Information Society – come imposing new challenge for the reflections in the several areas of knowledge. A new system of communication that speaks a language with more and more universal character, through digital […]

Heteronomy and Ontology Co-Evolution in Information Systems

AUTHOR Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato and Remo Pareschi ABSTRACT The Web is the most important information framework of our generation and probably the next and the Semantic Web is a project to make the Web fully “understandable”. At the current stage it stays very much a “project” shared by academic institutions and research centers. […]

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

AUTHOR Mirja Liisa Airos ABSTRACT Theoretical Foundation and Conceptualization Managers and leaders have remarkable impacts on firm’s behaviour and communication with the overall society. Ordinary daily business life presents and opens up many ethical quandaries at which they have to decide what to do. Quandaries are moral binds between competing good and bad considerations (Smith […]