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[ecrea] CfP Ethics of Online Social Networks - International Review of Information Ethics

Tue May 10 12:22:20 GMT 2011




*Call for Papers
Ethics of Online Social Networks*

/*International Review of Information Ethics*/ - Call for Papers for Vol. 16 (02/2011)

Deadline for extended abstracts: June 19, 2011
Notification of acceptance to authors: July 30, 2011
Deadline for full articles: September, 30, 2011
Deadline for revised articles: November 27, 2011
Publication: December 2011

An online social network is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. An online social network essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most online social networks are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail (often in-build services) and instant messaging. Although online communities are sometimes considered as a kind of online social network in a broader sense, online social networks usually means an individual-centred service whereas online communities are group-centred. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, the most popular are Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn. Online social network sites are the most important internet phenomena in recent years, in particular the explosion of Facebook, brought this new communicative ways at the edge of public opinion. Online social networks raise a variety of ethical and political concerns.

We welcome papers analyzing ethical problems of online social networks such as:
Privacy
Notifications on websites
Access to information
Potential for misuse
Risk for child safety
Trolling
Cyberbullying, stalking and murder
Interpersonal communication
Patent Issues
Data mining
Censorships
Inappropriate content
Identity Theft
Using online social networks for civic and political engagement
The role of online social networks in the recent maghrebian revolutions

Papers on the relationship crossing online social network, ethics and marketing and on general ethical issues arising from the political and economic uses of online social networks are also welcomed.


Guest Editors:

Antonio Marturano, Ph.D.
Faculty of Economics
Sacred Heart Catholic University of Rome, Italy
(marturano /at/ btinternet.com)

Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D.
Center for Applied Ethics
University of Wisconsin-Stout, US
(eliz1679 /at/ uwm.edu)


Charles Ess, PhD
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
Aarhus University, Denmark
(cmess /at/ drury.edu)

See : http://www.i-r-i-e.net/call_for_papers.htm




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