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

*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