Four paradigms of information systems development
Communications of the ACM
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
On the Relevance of Habermas‘ Theory of Communicative Action for CSCW
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Ethics and information systems: the corporate domain
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Doing critical IS research: the question of methodology
Qualitative research in IS
Practical Computer Ethics
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
The ethical attitudes of information systems professionals: outcomes of an initial survey
Telematics and Informatics
Information ethics: On the philosophical foundation ofcomputer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
Method in computer ethics: Towards amulti-level interdisciplinary approach
Ethics and Information Technology
Mapping the foundationalist debate in computer ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
On the intrinsic value of informationobjects and the infosphere
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethical Issues in Information Systems Development: The Analyst as Moral Agent
Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.2 Working Group on Information Systems Development: Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects: Human, Organizational, and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development
Disclosive Ethics and Information Technology: Disclosing Facial Recognition Systems
Ethics and Information Technology
Information ethics, its nature and scope
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Acting with genres: discursive-ethical concepts for reflecting on and legitimating genres
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: Action in language, organisations and information systems
Governance lessons from the experience of telecentres in Kerala
European Journal of Information Systems - Special section: PACIS 2004
What pluralism, why pluralism, and how? A response to Charles Ess
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethical pluralism and global information ethics
Ethics and Information Technology
Using group support systems and joint application development for requirements specification
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Organizational impact of group support systems, expert systems, and executive information systems
Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology
Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology
The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics
The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: implications for large-scale IT outsourcing
Communications of the ACM - Emergency response information systems: emerging trends and technologies
Departmental influences on policy design
Communications of the ACM - Web searching in a multilingual world
Discourses on information ethics: The claim to universality
Ethics and Information Technology
Ethics and Information Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Digital inclusion projects in developing countries: Processes of institutionalization
Information Technology for Development - Development and the Promise of Technological Change
Information Technology and Moral Philosophy
Information Technology and Moral Philosophy
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Habermas and information systems research: New directions
Information and Organization
Three approaches to ethical considerations in the design of behavior change support systems
PERSUASIVE'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Persuasive Technology
An integrative semiotic framework for information systems: The social, personal and material worlds
Information and Organization
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Ethics is important in the Information Systems field as illustrated by the direct effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the work of IS professionals. There is a substantial literature on ethical issues surrounding computing and information technology in the contemporary world, but much of this work is not published nor widely cited in the mainstream IS literature. The purpose of this paper is to offer one contribution to an increased emphasis on ethics in the IS field. The distinctive contribution is a focus on Habermas's discourse ethics. After outlining some traditional theories of ethics and morality, the literature on IS and ethics is reviewed, and then the paper details the development of discourse ethics. Discourse ethics is different from other approaches to ethics as it is grounded in actual debates between those affected by decisions and proposals. Recognizing that the theory could be considered rather abstract, the paper discusses the need to pragmatize discourse ethics for the IS field through, for example, the use of existing techniques such as soft systems methodology. In addition, the practical potential of the theory is illustrated through a discussion of its application to specific IS topic areas including Web 2.0, open source software, the digital divide, and the UK biometric identity card scheme. The final section summarizes ways in which the paper could be used in IS research, teaching, and practice.