Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2016)

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

Edited by Robert Hauptman
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 188
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2016
ISSN: 1061-9321
Imprint: McFarland

Special Issue: Information Ethics and Global Citizenship
Guest editors: Toni Samek and Lynette Shultz
Editorial: Peer Review, Open Access, and Other
Publishing Scams
Robert Hauptman 3
Forum
Letter to the Editor
Sanford Berman 5
Columns
Ethics in the Cultural and Educational Industries
The Politics of Nudging
Juris Dilevko 6
PsychInfo
Research Fraud in Science: What Is Going On?
Russell Eisenman 10
Articles
Guest Editorial: Information Ethics and Global Citizenship
Toni Samek and Lynette Shultz 13
Exploring Information Ethics: A Metadata Analytics Approach
Ali Shiri 17
Citizenship and Agency Under Neoliberal Global Consumerism:
A Search for Informed Democratic Practices
John Buschman 38
Response to Buschman
Kent den Heyer 54
On Dark Continents and Digital Divides: Information Inequality and the Reproduction of Racial Otherness in Library and Information Studies
David J. Hudson 62
Response to Hudson
Kathleen Lowrey 81
The Social Contract and Big Data
Kristene Unsworth 83
Response to Unsworth
Michael B. McNally 98
Legal Formulations of a Human Right to Information:
Defining a Global Consensus
Kimberli M. Kelmor 101
Integrating Ethical Guidelines and Situated Ethics for Researching ­Social-Media-Based Interactions: Lessons from a Virtual Ethnographic Case Study with Chinese Youth
Ke Lin 114
Narrative Identity and Flourishing Within the Information Professions
John T.F. Burgess 132
About the Article Contributors 149
Reviews 152
Web Briefs 178
Article Alerts 181

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