[Air-L] open access - special issue of Etikk i praksis / Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics

[Charles Ess]

Dear AoIR-ists,
On behalf of my co-editors May Thorseth (NTNU, Trondheim) and Johnny Søraker
(Twente), and our contributors, I'm very pleased to announce that our recent
special issue of Etikk i praksis (the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics) on
the ethical and social aspects of contemporary communication media (Etiske
og sosiale aspekter ved moderne kommunikasjonsmidler), with a specific focus
on mobility and ubiquitous computing, is now available online:
<http://tapir.pdc.no/index.php?utgave=49422&p=EIP>

(Depending on your browser, you may also have to click on the "Etikk i
praksis" button on the upper-right to get the Table of Contents to load
properly.)

>From here, you can either read the articles online or download them as PDF
files.

English-readers interested in the ethical, social, and political dimensions
of mobile communication will be especially keen to look at:

Rich Ling & Rhonda McEwen, Mobile communication and ethics: implications of
everyday actions on social order

Litska Strikwerda, Information privacy, the right to receive information and
(mobile) ICTs

In these directions, readers of the Scandinavian languages in play will also
be interested in:

Anders Albrechtslund, Deltagende overvågning og sociale fællesskaber på
nettet [Participatory surveillance and online social networking]

Elin Palm, När vården flyttar hem till dig ­ den mobila vårdens etik [When
health care moves in ­ the ethics of mobile health care]

along with the additional articles and book review (of the recent books by
Jaron Lanier and Nicolas Carr).

Echoing our recent discussion regarding publication practices, it is worth
noting that the publisher of the journal, Tapir Akademisk Forlag, pursues a
mixed model: the paper journal comes out first to subscribers, including
libraries - followed by the online, open access version a few months later.

In any event, our many thanks and congratulations to our contributors,
including our AoIR colleagues, whose articles make for rich and insightful
reading indeed. 

cheers and all the best,
- charles ess
Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab
Helsingforsgade 14
8200 Århus N.
Denmark
mail: <imvce at hum.au.dk>
tel: (+45) 8942 9250

Professor, Philosophy and Religion
Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA

Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23