... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Culture Globalization Computer ethics Professionalism Codes of ethics As we read “Professional Ethics in the Information Age”, we found ourselves nodding in agreement with many of the ideas expressed. However, there were several places where the nodding...

... concepts: globalization, the new economy, the information economy, the knowledge economy, the weightless economy (Coy, 2000 ; Dean and Kretschmer, 2007, p. 573 ; Greenspan, 2007, p. 493), the creative economy (Florida, 2002, 2007 ; Howkins, 2001), and the experience economy (Pine and Gilmore, 1999...

..., restructuring our societies and creating a new global stakeholder class – individual users of the internet. It connects the advent of this stakeholder class with a traditional principle of internet governance, “rough consensus”. It discusses advantages and risks of this change, suggesting that this shift...

.... Europe must play a more internationally active role in the design of another model of globalisation that would encompass social policies at a global scale as one of its pillars. Originality/value There are very few studies of ICTs' role in the relationship between openness‐growth‐development...

... be a Western value without relevance in other cultures. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the general problem whether one can expect a global convergence on ICT‐ethics, with the right to privacy as a case in point. Is privacy a universal or contextual value? Design/methodology/approach...

...Krystyna Górniak‐Kocikowska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deepen the understanding of tensions between old and new in the emerging global society driven by information and communication technology (ICT); and to argue that creation of a theory of this society would contribute...

...Richard Volkman In light of the relation between culture and markets, an analysis of cultural evolution reveals that globalization will not lead to the homogenization of world cultures. Info, Comm & Ethics in Society (2006) 3: 145-154 © 2006 Troubador Publishing Ltd. Dynamic traditions: why...

...N Ben Fairweather; Simon Rogerson Global cultural homogenisation has significant consequences for our responsibility for others in distant parts of the globe. ICT gives a powerful impetus to this cultural homogenisation. There are a number of distinct elements that contribute to this. © MCB UP...