Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Fall 2011)

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About the Author(s)

Robert Hauptman is professor emeritus of St. Cloud State University and editor of the Journal of Information Ethics.

Bibliographic Details

Edited by Robert Hauptman
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 184
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2011
ISSN 1061-9321
Imprint: McFarland

Table of Contents

Special Issue: Informing Information Ethics
Toni Samek, Guest Editor

Editorial: Whistling, Protecting, and Causing Harm<
Robert Hauptman      3

COLUMNS
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Having a Stroke: Ethical Issues in Medicine and Law
Russell Eisenman      5

Academics
Authorial Vanities
Joseph S. Fulda      9

ARTICLES
Informing Information Ethics: Select Essays
Toni Samek      12
The Beginnings of Information Ethics: Reflections on Memory and Meaning
Martha M. Smith      15
Global Information Ethics in LIS: An Examination of Select National Library Association English-Language Codes of Ethics
Jane Robertson Zaïane      25
Teaching Other Tongues: Addressing the Problem of “Other” Languages in the Library
Emily Drabinski      42
Inflexible Bodies: Metadata for Transgender Identities
K.R. Roberto      56
From Advocates to Terrorists: Ideology, the State of Exception and the State of Emergency, and Political Ethics
Ronald E. Day      65

A Passport to Trouble: Bureaucratic Incompetence as Censorship
Lane Robert Mandlis      85
You Can’t Polish a Pumpkin: Scattered Speculations on the Development of Information Ethics
Nathaniel F. Enright      103
Beyond a Bad Attitude? Information Workers and Their Prospects Through the Pages of Processed World
Steve Wright      127
Looking Back, Looking Forward, and Transformation in Information Ethics
Elizabeth A. Buchanan      157

Reviews      161
Article Alerts      182

Book Reviews & Awards

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