[AISWorld] IRIE: CFP The Ethics of online social networks

[Antonio Marturano]

http://www.i-r-i-e.net/

CFP */The ethics of online social networks/*

Guest Editors: Antonio Marturano (SHCU Rome, Italy), Elizabeth Buchanan 
(University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA) and Charles Ess (Aarhus University, 
Denmark)

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 analysing ethical problems of online social networks 
such as:

·Privacy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Privacy>

·Notifications on websites 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Notifications_on_websites>

·Access to information 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Access_to_information>

·Potential for misuse 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Potential_for_misuse>

·Risk for child safety 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Risk_for_child_safety>

·Trolling <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Trolling>

·Cyberbullying, stalking and murder

·Interpersonal communication 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Interpersonal_communication>

·Patent Issues 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Patent_Issues>

·Data mining

·Censorships

·Inappropriate content

·Identity Theft

      Using onlice 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. Submissions 
should conform to the IRIE style sheet.

For more on IRIE, please see: http://www.i-r-i-e.net/about_irie.htm

- Deadline for full articles: June, 19, 2011

- Deadline for revised articles: November 27, 2011

- Publication: December 2011


*Guest Editors: *

Antonio Marturano, Ph.D.
Faculty of Economics
Sacred Heart Catholic University of Rome, Italy
marturano at btinternet.com <mailto:marturano at btinternet.com>

Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Ph.D.
Center for Applied Ethics
University of Wisconsin-Stout, US
eliz1679 at uwm.edu <mailto:eliz1679 at uwm.edu>

Charles Ess, PhD
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
Aarhus University, Denmark
cmess at drury.edu <mailto:cmess at drury.edu>

*Submissions *

Deadline for the final article (usually ca. 3,000 words or 20,000 
characters including blanks) is *June 19, 2011*.

All submissions will be subject to peer review. Accepted papers will be 
published by *December, 2010*, unless the article has passed the peer 
review and revisions (if required) have been included in the text by 
*November 27, 2011.*

All submissions should be sent by email with "IRIE Submission"in the 
header to: marturano at btinternet.com <mailto:marturano at btinternet.com>
For more information about the journal see: http://www.i-r-i-e.net

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