Exploring the factors affecting internet content filters acceptance
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
A justification for software rights
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
A justification for software rights
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society - Special print issue of ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society: selection of best papers 2004-2006
Are interface agents scapegoats? Attributions of responsibility in human-agent interaction
Interacting with Computers
Situational influences on ethical decision-making in an IT context
Information and Management
Unauthorized copying of software: an empirical study of reasons for and against
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
Post-adoption behavior of users of Internet Service Providers
Information and Management
The embedded panopticon: visibility issues of remote diagnostics surveillance
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
An empirical investigation of anti-spyware software adoption: A multitheoretical perspective
Information and Management
Information Systems Research
Choice and Chance: A Conceptual Model of Paths to Information Security Compromise
Information Systems Research
Individual Swift Trust and Knowledge-Based Trust in Face-to-Face and Virtual Team Members
Journal of Management Information Systems
Self-reported computer criminal behavior: A psychological analysis
Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response
A structured review of IS research on gender and IT
Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
The role of theory in gender and information systems research
Information and Organization
How old are you really? Cognitive age in technology acceptance
Decision Support Systems
Internet ethics of adolescents: Understanding demographic differences
Computers & Education
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Business ethics is an emerging area of research in many subfields of management, including information systems (IS). Empirical IS research has studied differences in users' attitudes and in moral judgments regarding ethical computer-related behavior. This study applied the "domains of morality" approach to determine how users felt about certain computer-related behaviors. Vignettes describing ethical dilemmas involving computer technology (e.g., up-loading a computer virus on an electronic network/bulletin board system) were presented to a sample of Internet users. The research findings offered several interesting and, in some cases, unexpected results. The empirical results indicated that older computer users have a less permissive sense of what is right and wrong for an illegal game. When computers were used to test a banned game, men and women differed in their assessment of its appropriateness. A surprising finding was that participants were not likely to endorse civil liberties, and were more concerned about the harm to, and violations of, social norms when the scenario described a situation involving a computer virus. How users perceive, prejudge, and discriminate computer ethics and abusive computer actions raises numerous questions and implications for IS researchers, IS practitioners, and policy makers. The results of this study foster a better understanding of Internet users' moral categorization of specific computer behaviors and, hopefully, help to further reduce risks and vulnerabilities of systems by identifying computer actions deemed ethically acceptable by users. Opportunities for IS researchers to further explore this timely issue are also discussed.