bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Ethische Überlegungen zu Smart Home
Authors: Stengel Bernhard
Published: June 2021

“Smart Home” is used as a buzzword to term a wide scope of home automation. In this paper the focus is on systems connected to the internet, being primarily operated by mobile ICT devices. When viewing systems already available, those being available in Germany take centre stage. In a general point of view the new human interface to devices is compared to that of old-fashioned devices. Regarding social togetherness, the topics of multi user mode and monitoring of homes are discussed. It is not sure that all persons living in the home get fair access to the new technology. Furthermore, when persons being present at different locations are able to operate the same device, there is the task to synchronize the actions. The main focus of monitoring is on suspect strangers approaching from outside, but it also could be applied inside in a questionable manner. Control of home infrastructure by algorithms raises questions of paternalism.
On Designing Machines and Technologies in the 21st Century. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.
Authors: Söffker Dirk , Weber Jutta
Published: June 2021

Is an autonomous robot, designed to communicate and take decisions in a human way, still a machine? On which concepts, ideas and values is the design of such machines to be based? How do they relate back to our everyday life? And finally, in how far are social demands the guideline for the development of such innovative technologies. Using the form of a dialogue theoretical, ethical and socio-political questions concerning the design of interactive machines are discussed especially with regards to the accelerated mechanization of our professional and private life. Developed out of an Email dialogue and further elaborated the discourse spanning from engineering to research in the field of science and technology deals with the question, if the men-machine relationship changes.
Introduction: The Ethics of E-Games
Authors: Buchanan Elizabeth A. , Ess Charles
Published: June 2021

E-games are a dramatically expanding dimension of contemporary exploitations of computing and computer network technologies - one that, thus far, has evoked much more heat (often, in the form of "moral panics") among parents and politicians than light in the form of serious scholarly and philosophical analysis. We argue that e-games deserve such analysis in part because of their intrinsic philosophical interest as they raise primary philosophical questions of ontology, epistemology, human nature, the character of gameplay," - and most especially, of ethics. We further suggest that such analyses - exemplified by the articles collected here - may also contribute to resolving the larger social and political debates evoked by e-games.
Vernetzt gespalten: Der Digital Divide in ethischer Perspektive
Authors: Spinello Richard A
Published: June 2021

Review of Rupert M. Scheule, Rafael Capurro and Thomas Hausmanninger (editors): Vernetzt gespalten: Der Digital Divide in ethischer Perspektive München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004
Translating the Indifference of Communication: Electronic Waste, Migrant Labour and the Informational Sovereignty of Logistics in China
Authors: Rossiter Ned
Published: June 2021

This essay is interested in the relationship between electronic waste and emergent regimes of labour control operative within the global logistics industry, the task of which is to manage the movement of people and things in the interests of communication, transport and economic efficiencies. It considers the production of non-governable subjects and (regional) spaces as they figure in the relation between electronic waste, global logistics industries and biopolitical technologies of labour control.
Polyhedral: Recycling Boundary Ecologies
Authors: Carter Paul
Published: June 2021

Foregrounding the extent to which 'place' remains resistant to the politics and poetics of 'network culture', this essay approaches place as a boundary ecology rather than as an instance of cultural invariance. It calls on readers to think about attempts to actively recycle cultural 'debris' or 'waste' through an ethics of passage instead of the kind of instrumentalist statics that prevents the development of an ontology of mobility. Contending that such a capacity to inhabit passage is compromised by the eschatological language used to communicate the implications of environmental disaster, as well as by languages of consultation that (conceptually) empty place of any creative power to incubate alternatives – events, modes of relation –, the essay stresses the mythopoetic techniques that produce places as knots or nodal points within a network of passage. The designer's task is to create the hinge mechanisms that render such boundary ecologies inhabitable imaginatively, and by materialising the nexus between creativity and change to alter our position vis-a-vis our ethical responsibilities as citizens of a shared biosphere.
21st-Century Political Economies: Beyond Information Abundance
Authors: Verzola Roberto
Published: June 2021

As a result of the relatively low cost of digital reproduction, a global transformation is occurring in the nature of products and processes and in types of goods and services. Arising from information abundance, this global transformation is making the phenomenon of abundance a major field of study, not only for economists but also for other social scientists and physical scientists as well. This essay proposes an economic definition of abundance and a typology of sources of abundance. It argues that real economic abundance can come about only when the demand for a good is finite and the plentiful supply makes the abundant good affordable enough to all members of society. It lists an abundance-nurturing ethic as a major goal of abundance management, and encourages economists to make abundance together with scarcity their conceptual point of departure. Finally it links the phenomenon of abundance to the concept of the commons.
Building social networks ethics beyond “privacy”: a sociological perspective
Authors: Coll Sami , Glassey Olivier , Balleys Claire
Published: June 2021

This article aims to widen the question of online social networks sites (SNS) ethics going beyond the questions of privacy and self-management of data, yet dominant in the public debates. The main theoretical framework developed in this paper, based both on recent contributions and classical sociology, is that SNS have to deal with the social dynamics of distinction and social classes like in any other spaces. From this perspective, focusing only on online privacy is too subjective and individualistic to provide a satisfying answer. Thus, we suggest that transparency should be considered as a social and collective fact rather than an individual characteristic. Boundaries between online and offline world are becoming increasingly porous and we argue, although acknowledging certain particular characteristics of SNS, that SNS ethics should be less about the specificities of online behaviors than on their articulation with the social world.
The Unethics of Sharing: Wikiwashing
Authors: Morell Mayo Fuster
Published: June 2021

In order for online communities to assemble and grow, some basic infrastructure is necessary that makes possible the aggregation of the collective action. There is a very intimate and complex relationship between the technological infrastructure and the social character of the community which uses it. Today, most infrastructure is provided by corporations and the contrast between community and corporate dynamics is becoming increasingly pronounced. But rather than address the issues, the corporations are actively obfuscating it. Wikiwashing refers to a strategy of corporate infrastructure providers where practices associated to their role of profit seeking corporations (such as abusive terms of use, privacy violation, censorship, and use of voluntary work for profit purposes, among others) that would be seen as unethical by the communities they enable are concealed by promoting a misleading image of themselves associated with the general values of wikis and Wikipedia (such as sharing and collaboration, openness and transparency). The empirical analysis is based on case studies (Facebook , Yahoo! and Google) and triangulation of several methods.
Towards Emancipatory Use of a Medium: The Wiki
Authors: Ebersbach Anja , Glaser Markus
Published: June 2021

With the rapid growth of the Internet in the 1990ies due to the WWW, many people’s hopes were raised that
the spirit of egality, the emancipatory power of the medium then, would be brought to the masses. With the
increasing commercialization, the net became and is becoming more and more a one-way medium for
advertising. Against this development, a new form of web pages has emerged and is becoming increasingly
popular: the Wiki. Its distinctive feature is that any web page can be edited by anyone. Participants attribute
the success to this openness and to the resulting collective production of content. In his 1970 article
“Constituents of a theory of the media”, Enzensberger developed a list of seven criteria that qualify, in his
opinion, the use of a medium as emancipatory. These are used to investigate the question: Can wikis be
thought of as a new form of emancipatory use of the medium?
The ‘Faith’ factor in the Internet World
Authors: Gopal T V
Published: June 2021

The author opines that the most creative use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in

development may not entail computers, e-mail, or Internet access, but rather the use of other computer-
based technologies, including embedded chips, satellite based information and so on to better meet local

needs. The solutions must be affordable.
Some of the major challenges in developing local solutions based on ICT are Bridging the Digital Divide,
Trustworthiness, Protecting Intellectual Property, Information Assurance, Privacy, Hacking , Viruses and
Worms.
The solutions for these challenges are ‘People-Centric’ and are thus influenced by the “personal” and
“professional” ethics of individuals. All the challenges cited above lead to many ethical issues. Internet being
a global phenomenon the ethical issues need to be examined in Intercultural perspective. The author
suggests that ‘faith’ of people is the key in meeting the challenges in developing local solutions.
Brave New Worlds? The Once and Future Information Ethics
Authors: Ess Charles
Published: June 2021

I highlight several aspects of current and future developments of the internet, in order to draw from these in turn specific consequences of particular significance for the ongoing development and expansion of information ethics. These consequences include changing conceptions of self and privacy in both Western and Eastern countries, and correlative shifts from the communication technologies of literacy and print to a ?secondary orality.? These consequences in turn imply that current and future information ethics should focus on developing a global but pluralistic virtue ethics - one that may offset the anti-democratic dangers of such secondary orality.
Ethos in the Information Society and the Development of “angeletics”
Authors: Takenouchi Tadashi
Published: June 2021

Rafael Capurro is one of the pioneers of the hermeneutic approach to information studies, especially with regard to ethical issues. One of the main goals of his study is to understand “ethos” in the information society. Capurro’s ideas concerning the information technology are different from those of Dreyfus although they both have hermeneutic viewpoints. The scope of his study is widened in his latest study named “angeletics” which means “message studies.” Angeletics, hermeneutics, and mediology are complementary to each other. Capurro’s idea concerning ethics in the information age is based on “technologies of the self” which are not “act-oriented” but “self-oriented.” It is also expected that interactions between Capurro and Japanese thought patterns produce some important contributions to information ethics.
The Discourse of Identity in the Maghreb between Difference and Univer-sality
Authors: Abdeljelil Jameleddine Ben
Published: June 2021

The discourse of identity in the Arab context in general and in the Maghrebi context in particular is a modern phenomenon and is of central importance. In the Maghreb this discourse is related to modernization efforts, with the de-colonization struggle and its ideology, and with the nation-state-building genesis, process, and legitimisation after independence. A fundamental part in the developmental process of this discourse, there-fore, is the difference from, as well as the non-negotiable and hegemonic presence of, the ?Other?. The evolution of a Maghrebi discourse of identity in this instance is a peculiar formation of consciousness or awareness with regard to a self-evident constancy, namely, the own identity, which had not been in doubt up to that point. From the challenging encounter with the western European hegemonic ?Other? comes the necessity to bring forth such a discourse. The Difference is thus a fundamental aspect in the beginnings of the Maghrebi discourse of identity.
African Women and the Internet
Authors: Caftori Netiva
Published: June 2021

As the future of the Internet in Africa seems promising from an infrastructure point of view, the issue of the women of Africa should not be forgotten, in particular women who are already in academia who continue to struggle for equality despite their relative achievements. Women all over the world face similar hurdles and conflicts related to their gender, such as tenure vs. biolog-ical clock and shrinking pipeline. However the glass ceiling in the West is made of iron in Africa. One cannot yet aspire to reach the top. Luckily thanks to the Internet, women communicate with each other and African women as well are being heard. The Internet is serving them as a sound board and support in their struggles.
NEKAMA Men Living Different Lives on the Internet
Authors: Asai Ryoko
Published: June 2021

At present, a huge number of people join in online games or SNS. With increasing the number of its users, online communication with invisibility and anonymity has generated a new type of communicators in Japan; those are referred to as ?Nekama? and have communication based on the Japanese gendered linguistic system, in online communities. ?Nekama? means a male participant who represents himself as a female in the cyber space. Whereas, he naturally spends his daily life as a male and most of them are heterosexual in the real space. Doing ?Nekama? enables a male participant to free from traditional gender role. However, the existence of ?Nekama? can bring up gender issues in the cyber space. Because they fill the lack of information about who they are with gender images and the Japanese women‘s language. Therefore, ?Nekama? release himself from fixed gender order in the real space, and at the same time he reproduces and strengthens gender order in the cyber space.
Winny and the Pirate Bay: A comparative analysis of P2P software usage in Japan and Sweden from a socio-cultural perspective
Authors: Murayama Kenya , Lennerfors Thomas Taro , Murata Kiyoshi
Published: June 2021

In this paper, we examine the ethico-legal issue of P2P file sharing and copyright infringement in two different countries – Japan and Sweden – to explore the differences in attitude and behaviour towards file sharing from a socio-cultural perspective. We adopt a comparative case study approach focusing on one Japanese case, the Winny case, and a Swedish case, the Pirate Bay case. Whereas similarities in attitudes and behaviour towards file sharing using P2P software between the two countries are found in this study, the Swedish debate on file sharing has been coloured by an ideological and political dimension, which is absent in the Japanese context. This might indicate that Swedes have been more interested in issues of right and wrong, and the creation of political subject of piracy, while the Japanese are more interested in their own individual well being.
Transnationale Netzöffentlichkeiten als neue politische Öffentlichkeiten – Das kritische Potential digitaler Medien am Beispiel arabischer OnlinePlattformen
Authors: Schachtner Christina
Published: June 2021

Even in the first few weeks of the so-called "Arab Spring" in January 2011, digital media were identified as being essential instruments for organizing the political protests in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet digital media had already started to play a political role as arenas of discourse in which topics such as democracy, minority rights, gender and religion could be debated at least two to three years earlier. A critical online public sphere arose which had a transregional and global focus right from the start, as reflected in the self-image of one network actor when he explained: "In real life I'm a Saudi guy living in Saudi Arabia. But online I'm multinational, I'm multigeographical". This article presents the results of a study entitled "Communicative publics in cyberspace" investigating digital platforms which had been initiated in the Arab world, which is also where most of the contributions come from; this analysis is backed up by interviews with network actors and bloggers from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Following the concept of Nancy Fraser's transnational public spheres (2007). I analysed the normative legitimacy and the efficiency of the communicative authority of digital arenas of discourse in the Middle East, identifying which political practices led to social movements in the digital sphere and which characteristics of digital media contributed to helping digital arenas of discourse turn into places where political resistance can develop.
Ciberparticipación en Buenos Aires: ¿los sitios de redes sociales como espacio público?
Authors: Garrido Natalia
Published: June 2021

This paper will discuss the concepts of deliberation, public space, and the role of new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the light of the major social and political transformation processes from the recent protests, particularly since 2011, in different parts of the globe. We also refer to changes in Argentina in the last decade and, then, analyze, in particular, youth social political participation in Buenos Aires and the social appropriation of ICTs engaged for this purpose today. Finally, we will reflect on the limits and potential of certain forms of cyberarctivism of Kirchner youths.
Debilidades, Amenazas, Fuerzas y Oportunidades (DAFO) en las redes sociales
Authors: Marcelo Julián
Published: June 2021

As well as a first step in strategic planning within production realm, a SWOT analysis of a system-processproject in relationship with its environment is often carried out. Correspondingly, the different types of social networks can also be regarded as socio-technological environments used by social groups in the development of different projects; each of them with its own Strengths and Weaknesses in the use of such networks, which in turn entail generic and specific Opportunities and Threats to these groups. Furthermore, each social network, seen as a set of techniques and users, adopts forms of communication which enable/encourage the emergence, consolidation or disappearance of certain organizational models, for instance, with a different degree of horizontality, hierarchical, permeable or manipulated by the groups. These models are analyzed using organizational schemes, as particularly studied by Mintzberg who considers their design parameters and contingency factors. The paper deepens the analysis of deviations risks in the very complex systems-processes-projects which can be originated by the users of social networks – though with a high degree of uncertainty –, as well as their contribution feeding back the development of types and forms of the own social networks. Moreover, special attention is focused on synergies of different intensity in the acceleration of real changes within such social networks and their generated relationships, and particularly towards the likely creation of new systems of relations (in material and intellectual production, distribution, etc.) in all fields of economy, sociology, politics and culture.
¿Innovar o “maquillar”? La incorporación de las TICs a los procesos político-administrativos.
Authors: Reniu Josep Mª
Published: June 2021

What criteria should guide the process of incorporating ICTs into political realm? Are ICTs, per definitionem, an instrument that always generates positive effects for political activity? Our reflection aims to influence the necessary and essential process of analysis prior to the introduction of ICT in the field of political processes, focusing primarily on the delimitation of its effects. In this sense it highlights the need to assess the added value of introducing a technological solution in the political process prior to do it, what will validate or not its desirability. There is, in this sense, the excessive use of "make-up" technology of political processes, that is, the absence of real & practical innovation.
Psychotechnologies of Digital Diplomacy
Authors: Grincheva Natalia
Published: June 2021

The study outlines the problematic framework of the emerging field of digital diplomacy in the social, cultural, and economic dimensions through a close reading of Stiegler’s philosophical concept of the techno-culture. The research intends to raise important questions regarding international communications in a new light of phenomenology of collective individuation. Stiegler’s philosophical conception of contemporary politics under the condition of globalized cultural and economic capitalism is one way to explain the dramatic changes in diplomatic relations taking place on the global arena at the beginning of the new century. Stiegler’s techno-cultural project has significant implications for digital diplomacy as a practical discipline and can be successfully utilized to improve its future development based on the more productive engagement with social, economic, and political issues in a theoretical context. The study tries to deepen the understanding of the political and economic mechanisms in the international communication and diplomatic activities complicated and challenged with the advance of digital technologies in the global capitalism system.
The Internet and Hinduism – A Study
Authors: Sivaswaroop Patheneni
Published: June 2021

trust must be earned and of cultural differences. Another challenge in developing such a framework is that e-
E-governance in Eastern and Southern Africa: a Webometric study of the Governments? websites
Authors: Onyancha Omwoyo Bosire
Published: June 2021

This paper explores the adoption of one of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, i.e. the Internet and more particularly, the World Wide Web, by Eastern and Southern African governments as a means of facilitating interactions between the state and its citizens. It was observed that most governments in the region have constructed their own Web sites, some of which are up to date. English is the most com-monly used language to prepare the web sites. Other findings include: foreign missions recorded the highest number of web pages followed by political parties; the .com or .co Top Level Domain (TLD) generated most web pages followed by .ac or .edu in each country; most governments provide contact information as op-posed to sitemaps and feedback forms which recorded relatively few postings; governments with few web-pages and large quantities of in-links (including self-links) recorded high Web Impact Factors (WIFs); and only the South African government provided links to other Eastern and Southern African governments. Ethical issues regarding the analyzed variables as well as conclusions and recommendations are provided.
On IRIE Vol. 9
Authors:   Editors
Published: June 2021

complex topics. Establishing e-government services often requires going through several phases: 1) publish
Ethical considerations on ”refreshing” digitized reputation by changing one’s name
Authors: Piskopani Anna-Maria
Published: June 2021

In 2010 Google Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, predicted that people will eventually be allowed to automatically change their names on reaching adulthood to escape their online past. This article attempts to follow up on such an extreme scenario in order to demonstrate the difference between erasing scattered digitized information about people's lives and changing personal names as a method of protecting one's reputation and identity. Such a suggested identity-erasure raises not only considerable legal and ethical considerations but also reveals an emerging stimulating debate on how the law can protect individuals from becoming their worst enemies, ”haunting” them in the form of automated digitized narratives.
Attitudes of UK Librarians and Librarianship Students to Ethical Issues
Authors: Ball Kevin , Oppenheim Charles
Published: June 2021

There have been a number of studies examining the attitudes of librarians to ethical dilemmas, but few examining them in comparison with Library and Information Science students as we did in our study. According to that UK librarians and students in general hold surprisingly similar ethical attitudes. We expected the students to be more liberal, more willing to uphold idealistic principles, and given their student status, with attitudes balanced in favour of other students' and patrons' rights in terms of fees, and accessibility, and copyright law. On the contrary, in many areas such as Internet filtering, looking at online erotic images, and removing books at the request of patrons, we found practitioners more liberal than the students. A reason for that might be that the students are keen to emulate what they perceive to be a conservative and mature outlook, i.e., a stance of responsibility, as a pressing concern for ILS students is likely to be the establishment of a career. Though there is a fair level of teaching ethical issues it seems to lead into a mediocre level of student awareness of basic issues or of the CILIP Code which is meant as a 'framework' to help information professionals 'manage the responsibilities and sensitivities which figure prominently in their work' (CILIP 2003).
The plurality of moral challenges in information societies and the need for systematic thinking
Authors: Weber Karsten
Published: June 2021

This paper shall give a review of some recently published and some older books, which were published as second or third edition, on Information Ethics and Internet related topics: - Brennan, Linda L. & Victoria E. Johnson (eds.): Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Information Technology. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 2004. – 304 pages, paperback, $59.95 - Capurro, Rafael: Ethik im Netz. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 2003. 278 pages, paperback, €26.00 - Cavalier, Robert J. (ed.): The impact of the Internet on our moral lives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. – 249 pages, paperback, $26.95 - Johnson, Deborah G.: Computer Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, third edition, 2001. – 240 pages, paperback, $40.67 - Kuhlen, Rainer: Informationsethik. Umgang mit Wissen und Informationen in elektronischen Räumen. Konstanz: UVK (UTB), 2004. – 444 pages, paperback, €24.95 - Nyíri, Kristóf: Vernetztes Wissen. Philosophie im Zeitalter des Internets. Wien: Passagen Verlag, 2004. – 179 pages, paperback, €19.95 - Spinello, Richard A.: Case Studies in Information Technology Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, second edition, 2003. – 252 pages, paperback, $54.67 - Spinello, Richard A. & Herman T. Tavani (eds.): Readings in Cyberethics. Sudbury, NJ: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, second edition, 2004. – 697 pages, paperback, $54.95 - Tavani, Herman T.: Ethics & Technology. Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. 344 pages, paperback, $53.95
Teaching Information Ethics in an iSchool
Authors: Saab David J.
Published: June 2021

The iSchool movement is an academic endeavor focusing on the information sciences and characterized by a number of features: concern with society-wide information problems, flexibility and adaptability of curricula, repositioning of research towards interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exchange (Harmon, 2006). Teaching information ethics in an iSchool would seem to be a requisite for students who will have an enormous impact on the information technologies that increasingly permeate our lives. The case for studying ethics in a college of information science and technology, as opposed to the liberal arts and humanities, has been regarded only marginally, however. In this paper I explore how I developed and delivered an information ethics course, paying attention to student receptivity and learning, course structure and assignments, as well as its connection to the wider curriculum and its efficacy.
A Framework for Integrating Information Ethics (IE) in the Curricula for Africa
Authors: Mutula Stephen M
Published: June 2021

The debate about embedding information ethics (IE) in the curriculum in Africa is gaining momentum as scholars from developed and developing world engage on the subject. Some research publications are starting to emerge on information ethics in Africa but so far they have been confined to addressing the extent to which information ethics is necessary, who should offer information ethics and why, who should be taught and at what levels, the duration of offering the course/program and the content that should be included in the curriculum. Little attention has been placed on the theoretical framework that should underpin IE curriculum for Africa as well as the sources of IE content for the curriculum. This paper therefore addresses the following issues: rationale for integrating information ethics in the curricula in Africa; theoretical and institutional framework for IE curriculum; potential sources of content for information ethics curricula, challenges of integrating information ethics into the curricula in Africa and prospects for integrating IE into the curricula in Africa.
Internet in Brazilian Public Schools: Policies beyond Politics1
Authors: Sorj Bernardo , Lissovsky Mauricio
Published: June 2021

This article examines the use of computers and the internet in Brazilien Public Schools. It observes the broad use of the new technologies and argues that the mainly political decision to do so must now be translated into responsible policies in both the use of resources and the goals they are meant to support, maximizing benefits and minimizing waste.
Co-Production on the Web: Social Software as a Means of Collaborative Value Creation in Web-based Infrastructures
Authors: Pellegrini Tassilo
Published: June 2021

The concept of co-production was originally introduced by political science to explain citizen participation in the provision of public goods. The concept was quickly adopted in business research targeting the question how users could be voluntarily integrated into industrial production settings to improve the development of goods and services on an honorary basis. With the emergence of the Social Software and web-based colla-borative infrastructures the concept of co-production gains importance as a theoretical framework for the collaborative production of web content and services. This article argues that co-production is a powerful concept, which helps to explain the emergence of user generated content and the partial transformation of orthodox business models in the content industries. Applying the concept of co-production to developmental policies could help to theorize and derive new models of including underprivileged user groups and communi-ties in collaborative value creation on the web for the mutual benefit of service providers and users.
Information Integrity in Africa: Exploring Information Corruption Issues
Authors: Woodbury Marsha
Published: June 2021

This paper examines information integrity, with the premise that sound, dependable information enhances the values of the entire society. Several issues about information integrity of great concern to Africa are access to information, the right of individuals to correct records that are erroneous, accurate and culturally appropriate translations, and the standard of freedom of the press. The basis for this paper is human rights doctrine largely embodied in the ethical principals of the international informatics community.
Cultural Diversity and Globalisation: An Intercultural Hermeneutical (Afri-can) Perspective
Authors: Udeani Chibueze C
Published: June 2021

In our today‘s global age one of the central challenges facing Africa is that of coming to terms positively with her cultural diversity. Furthermore Africa is confronted with the challenge of global cultural diversity that has been characteristic of our global age. One of the questions raised here is how can the intrinsic African cultural diversity be made comprehensible not only to non-Africans but also to Africans themselves? Talking of under-standing makes the issue a hermeneutical one. Hence the following questions, how can this hermeneutical challenge be mastered? What tools are required in order to accomplish this mission? Any efforts towards accomplishing this task must have to put many dimensions into consideration. These include, among other things, the historical, regional, political, economic, etc. Such efforts would imply not only Africa being occupied with herself culturally, she on the other side needs to become relevantly conscious of the implications of these cultural dynamisms, understand it with reference to herself and the rest of the global community and finally interpret this phenomenon from an African perspective. These are the issues being addressed in this paper.
The joy of sharing knowledge: But what if there is no knowledge to share? A critical reflection on human capacity building in Africa
Authors: Britz Johannes J
Published: June 2021

This article focuses on the current trends and initiatives in human capacity building in Africa. It takes as it starting point that human capacity development is essential for Africa to become an information and know-ledge society and therefore an equal partner in the global sharing of knowledge. Four knowledge areas are identified and discussed. These are education, research and development, brain drain and information and documentation drain. The paper concludes that there is a clear understanding in Africa that its future lies with education and that most African leaders have a strong political will to invest in human capacity building on the continent. It is also clear that much has been done, particularly primary education. Africa will most defi-nitely benefit from this in the long run. Problem areas remain however. These are in the needed growth of research and development and how to address the brain and information drain phenomena.
Tangible and Intangible Impact of AI Usage: AI for Information Accessibility
Authors: Prabhakar Rao Jandhyala , Siva Prasad Rambhatla
Published: June 2021

Any technology opens enormous opportunities for individuals as well as societies. This undoubtedly will contribute to the welfare of the individuals and the growth of society. Since any technology is the creation of human intellect, it may also carry the issues of socio-cultural and environmental concerns, such as issues of acceptability, access, and equity. AI is no exception to this. This paper investigates some of the aspects related to the development and usage of AI, that includes accessibility relating to socio-cultural, economic, and ethical concerns. It argues for the need to evolve nation-specific policies and regulations addressing the issues of inequalities.
A Comparative View of Business Ethics and Governance in the U.S. and Continental Europe
Authors: Bardy Roland , Rubens Arthur
Published: June 2021

brief overview of some of the notions of trust and distrust, concentrating on those concerning trust as it
The Epistemology and Ethics of Media Markets in the Age of Information
Authors: Spence Edward Howlett
Published: June 2021

part of a framework to address the question of trust in e-government. It also makes a few
Being there then: Ubiquitous computing and the anxiety of reference
Authors: Curry Michael R
Published: June 2021

These include among others, developing appropriate IK policies and practices, establishing IK resource
Ubiquitous Computing – Eine neue Herausforderung für die Medienethik
Authors: Hubig Christoph
Published: June 2021

are provided.
Optimasi Performansi Pengendalian Robot Swarm menggunakan Logika Fuzzy Tipe 2-Particle Swarm Optimazation
Authors: Fitriana Gita Fadila
Published: June 2021

Robot control is currently very helpful for human work to be more effective and efficient both in completion time and in mitigating the risk of work accidents that may occur. This study determines the direction of the robot so that it does not collide with each other and reach the target. Controlling the swarm robot with the leader-follower approach uses Fuzzy Logic Type 2-Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to optimise the performance of the swarm robot. The Fuzzy Logic Method Type 2 measures the direction decisions of the leader robot and follower robot using a rule base of 8 rules; the leader-follower robot is given a target. Achieving targets using PSO, the PSO process looks for potential solutions with quality references to reach the target as the optimal solution. The leader-follower modelling has been modelled using kinematic equations and controlling the movement of the robot's trajectory in the form of a simulation that has been carried out. The measurement results based on robot data in an open environment are 110 data, and a square environment is 1342. The measurement results based on robot time in a four-obstacle environment have the fastest time of 10.83 seconds and the longest time environment in an oval environment of 134.9 seconds. The measurement results are based on resources in a free environment of 10.6 kb and a square environment of 49.1 kb. Fuzzy Logic Type 2-PSO has a higher time indicating a stable speed result and judging from the trajectory in avoiding obstacles, and the leader-follower robot has a faster response.
Turizm Sektöründe Sosyal İnovasyon: Yüksek Lisans Öğrencileri Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Authors: ZENGİN Nilüfer , TÜRKER Nuray
Published: June 2021

For the survival and the competition of tourism enterprises, gaining a good position in the market depends on developing new ideas that can bring solutions to social problems and creating a social impact with innovative approaches.
Social innovation pertains to the process of solving social, economic, cultural, political, and ecological problems with innovative policies, processes, and practices. It helps to create social change in tourism, which is a social
phenomenon. Considering the importance of developing innovative ideas in the tourism industry, the aim of this research is to collect the socially innovative ideas of Master’s class students studying at a state university in Turkey.
The current study adopted a qualitative approach through focus group interviews. The sample was chosen among Master class students of Tourism Management and Entrepreneurship. The results suggest that innovative ideas focusing on
developing new products/services (new tourism types and destinations), local development, environmental protection, and enhancing tourist experience and customer satisfaction by using information technologies are prominent.
Ensemble Learning For Television Program Rating Prediction
Authors: Hanif Iqbal , Septiani Regita Fachri
Published: June 2021

Rating is one of the most frequently used metrics in the television industry to evaluate television programs or channels. This research is an attempt to develop a prediction model of television program ratings using rating data gathered from UseeTV (interned-based television service from Telkom Indonesia). The machine learning methods (Random Forest and Extreme Gradient Boosting) were tried out utilizing a set of rating data from 20 television programs collected from January 2018 to August 2019 (train dataset) and evaluated using September 2019 rating data (test dataset). Research results show that Random Forest gives a better result than Extreme Gradient Boosting based on evaluation metrics: Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). On the training dataset, prediction using Random Forest produced lower RMSE and MAE scores than Extreme Gradient Boosting in all programs, while on the testing dataset, Random Forest produced lower RMSE and MAE scores in 16 programs compared with Extreme Gradient Boosting. According to MAPE score, Random Forest produced more good quality prediction (4 programs in the training dataset, 16 programs in the testing dataset) than Extreme Gradient Boosting method (1 program in the training dataset, 12 programs in the testing dataset) both in training and testing dataset.
Analisis Buku Paket Matematika Siswa SMP/MTs Kelas VII Semester 1 Kurikulum 2013 Berdasarkan Kriteria Bell
Authors: Tyas Ida Ayu Putu Semaraning , Sarjana Ketut , Azmi Syahrul , Kurniati Nani
Published: June 2021

The purpose of this study is to describe the mathematics textbook for students grade seven of Junior High School semester 1 of the 2013 curriculum in terms of the material eligibility, the method of delivering the material, and the physical character of the book according to Bell's criteria.  Therefore, the type of research used is descriptive research with a qualitative approach.  The collecting data uses documentation techniques in form of books and questionnaire techniques in form of questions based on Bell's criteria which have been declared valid and suitable to be used.  Data collection was carried out directly where the researcher made face-to-face meetings with the teacher at school.  The results obtained show that the suitability of the material to Bell's criteria contributed from CHAPTER I to CHAPTER IV has a percentage of 86.90% with a very good category, the suitability of the material delivery method to Bell's criteria contributed from CHAPTER I to CHAPTER IV has a percentage of 71.43% in the good category and the physical character of the book has a percentage of 81.81% with the very good category.
Pengembangan Perangkat Pembelajaran Matematika Problem Posing Tipe Post Solution Posing Pada Materi Statistika
Authors: Algafari Vanny , Sridana Nyoman , Turmuzi Muhammad
Published: June 2021

The purpose of this research was to obtain a practical Problem Posing type of Post Solution Posing learning tool according to the Mathematics teacher at SMPN 1 Batulayar. This type of research is qualitative research by giving questionnaires and interviews. The subjects in this study were the Mathematics Teachers at SMPN 1 Batulayar. The object of this research is the practicality of the learning tools, namely the Learning Implementation Plan and Student Worksheets with the post solution posing problem posing type model. The instruments used in this study were questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire made is a structured questionnaire with answers that are not free and has been validated. Interviews were conducted in a structured manner according to understanding. Based on the results of the analysis in this study, it shows that the learning tools for the post solution posing model are very practical and easy to apply.
Analisis Soal Uji Kompetensi Pada Buku Paket Matematika Siswa Kurikulum 2013 untuk SMP/MTs Kelas VII Semester 1 Ditinjau dari Taksonomi Bloom
Authors: Yulia Paicasari Ni Nyoman , Sarjana Ketut , Kurniawan Eka , Azmi Syahrul
Published: June 2021

The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive level of competency test questions in the mathematics textbook for students of 2013 Curriculum for SMP/MTs grade 7th semester 1 reviewed from Revised Bloom Taxonomy. Therefore, this type of research is descriptive research. The data source in this study is the student mathematics textbook 2013 Curriculum Edition 2017 Revision for SMP / MTs grade VII semester 1. While the research variable is the cognitive level of each item of competency test in the 2013 Curriculum student mathematics textbook for SMP/MTs grade 7th semester 1. Data collection was performed by using the documentation and questionnaire methods. The guideline used in the item analysis is the Revised Bloom Taxonomy cognitive level which includes C1-remembering; C2-understand; C3-applying; C4-analyze; C5-evaluate; and C6-creating. The results of this study obtained the percentage of C1 cognitive level of 13.69%; C2 of 23.17%; C3 at 51.57%; C4 of 8.42%; C5 at 1.05% and C6 at 2.11%. It can be concluded that the results of the cognitive level of competency test questions in the mathematics textbook for students of Curriculum 2013 for SMP/MTs grade 7th semester 1 are still low and have not met the balance of the difficulty level of the questions.
Pengaruh Model Pembelajaran Berbasis Masalah Terhadap Kemampuan Berpikir Logis Matematis Siswa pada Materi Program Linier
Authors: Assmarqandi Prangga , Hayati Laila , Hapipi Hapipi
Published: June 2021

This research aims to determine the effect of problem-based learning model on student’s mathematical logical thinking abilities and the amount of it. To achieve the goals, this research used post-test only control group design. This research was held in class XI-IPA of SMAN 1 Sekotong and consist of 60 students which divided into two classes. By considering the post-test only control group design which requires a control group and the experimental group, used saturated sampling technique that took the whole population as the sample. The members of the population were all students of class XI-IPA of SMAN 1 Sekotong which divided into two classes XI-IPA 1 and XI-IPA 2. The instruments were used to measure the student’s logical thinking ability consist of four description. The measurement of the logical thinking ability was measured after the implementation of problem-based learning for four times. The level of compliance to the learning model was measured by observation of student and teacher activity sheets. The results of data analysis using t-test showed that problem-based learning have a significant influence on the mathematical logical thinking ability. Those results were showed by the increasing of mathematical logical thinking ability in each meeting. The analysis using the effect-size gave the result of the d value of 1,60 which means the application of problem-based learning have a high influence to the student’s mathematical logical thinking ability.
Implementasi IoT Untuk Early Warning System(EWS) Pada Tambak Udang Vaname
Authors: Wisnu Alfiansyah Muhamad , Wedashwara W I Gede Putu Wirarama , Mardiansyah Ahmad Zafrullah
Published: June 2021

Vaname shrimp is a type of aquaculture that has a high economic value and has relatively fast growth. Good water quality is key in the cultivation of vaname shrimp on ponds. However, monitoring of pond water conditions is still done manually and not done intensively. Internet of Things (IoT) and Early Warning System (EWS) as the latest technology can be a solution in periodic pond monitoring activities and give early warning to farm owners. Double Exponential Smoothing Holt is one method for forecasting in time series. In this study, the system predicts the potential for endangering the pond conditions, when there are indications of danger, it will inform the user via Telegram chat. The accuracy test value of the forecasting method used for water temperature is the MSE value of 0.01954 and MAPE of 9.0859%. Whereas for the water pH, the MSE value is 0.000155 and MAPE of 0.828%.