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Guidelines for Responsible Research and Innovation
(De Montfort University, 2016)
Guidelines for Responsible Research and Innovation
Virtuous Business Intelligence
(IGI Global, 2015-07-01)
This paper examines three approaches to ethics and focuses on the development of character and the practice of virtue in business intelligence (BI). The paper describes BI as a tool for mediating the relationships between ...
Friends, Robots, Citizens?
(ACM, 2015-09)
This paper asks whether and how an artefact, such as a robot, could be considered a citizen. In doing so, it approaches questions of political freedom and artefacts. Three key notions emerge in the discussion: discursivity, ...
Future Vision
(Emerald, 2015-06)
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to review the world of information and communications technology (ICT) from its early days to the near future. The aim is to consider how successfully academia, industry and government ...
The ETHICOMP Odyssey: 1995 to 2015
(Researchgate, 2015-09-12)
A reflection of the ETHICOMP conference series and its impact on ICT ethics over its 20 year existence.
How to describe and evaluate “deception” phenomena: recasting the metaphysics, ethics, and politics of ICTs in terms of magic and performance and taking a relational and narrative turn
(Ethics of Information Technology, 2017-10-19)
Contemporary ICTs such as speaking machines and computer games tend to create illusions. Is this ethically problematic? Is it deception? And what kind of “reality” do we presuppose when we talk about illusion in this ...
Information systems ethics – challenges and opportunities
(2017-11)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ethical issues surrounding information systems (IS) practice with a view to encouraging greater involvement in this aspect of IS research. Information integrity relies upon the ...
The Blockchain as a Narrative Technology: Investigating the Social Ontology and Normative Configurations of Cryptocurrencies
(Springer, 2016-10-31)
In this paper, we engage in a philosophical investigation of how blockchain technologies such as cryptocurrencies can mediate our social world. Emerging blockchain-based decentralised applications have the potential to ...
The state of the responsible research and innovation programme: A case for its application in additive manufacturing
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-05-13)
Many of the ethical issues of additive manufacturing (AM) are not well known or understood,
and there remains a policy vacuum that needs to be addressed. This paper aims to describe an approach that
has been applied ...
Ethical Issues of Research Infrastructure: What are they and how can they be addressed?
(Universidad de La Rioja, 2020-07)
E-infrastructures are emerging as novel and effective ways of increasing creativity and efficiency of research. As technological innovations, these virtual, ubiquitous, pervasive infrastructures offer possibilities of ...