Values, ethics and participatory policymaking in online communities

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Centivany, Alissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipatory Ethics; Information Policy; Online Communities; Social Media; Value Sensitive Design

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ANTICIPATORY ETHIC; DESIGN ETHICS; DESIGN INFORMATION; ETHICS POLICIES; INFORMATION POLICY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; VALUE CENTRED DESIGNS; VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85015276857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301058     Document Type: Article

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