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This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers--personal and non-personal--through a worldwide web survey. A stratified purposive sample of 1,224 bloggers provided information about their blogging experience, blogging habits, and demographics. They were also asked about their beliefs and practices for four ethical principles: truth telling, attribution, accountability, and minimizing harm. The findings reveal that the two groups differ in terms of who they are and what they do in their blogs. There were also significant differences in the extent to which they value and adhere to the four principles and some interesting similarities. For example, both groups believe attribution is most important and accountability least important. While scholars have proposed blogging ethics codes, we found bloggers themselves are quite ambivalent on the necessity of a code. |
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| Cenite, Mark., Detenber, Benjamin., Andy, Koh., Lim, Alvin. and Ng, Ee Soon. "Doing the Right Thing Online: A Survey of Bloggers’ Ethical Beliefs and Practices" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-11-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p172015_index.html> |
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| Cenite, M. A., Detenber, B. H., Andy, K. W., Lim, A. L. and Ng, E. , 2007-05-23 "Doing the Right Thing Online: A Survey of Bloggers’ Ethical Beliefs and Practices" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA Online <PDF>. 2008-11-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p172015_index.html |
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Abstract: This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers--personal and non-personal--through a worldwide web survey. A stratified purposive sample of 1,224 bloggers provided information about their blogging experience, blogging habits, and demographics. They were also asked about their beliefs and practices for four ethical principles: truth telling, attribution, accountability, and minimizing harm. The findings reveal that the two groups differ in terms of who they are and what they do in their blogs. There were also significant differences in the extent to which they value and adhere to the four principles and some interesting similarities. For example, both groups believe attribution is most important and accountability least important. While scholars have proposed blogging ethics codes, we found bloggers themselves are quite ambivalent on the necessity of a code. |
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| Doing the Right Thing Online: A Survey of Bloggers’ Ethical Beliefs and Practices Mark Cenite Benjamin H. Detenber Andy Koh Woon Khai Alvin Lim Lian Hao Ng Ee Soon Correspondence to: Mark Cenite Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information 31 Nanyang Link Singapore 637718 Telephone (65) 6790-4572 Email: tmark@ntu.edu.sg Paper accepted by the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association for presentation at the 57th Annual Conference to be held in San Francisco CA May |
| 5.94a 1.00 Note: Within group values with subscripts in common do not significantly differ at p < .05. Ethics in Blogging 41 Table 7: Bloggers’ Agreement on the Necessity of a Code of Ethics Personal bloggers Non-personal (n = 892) bloggers (n = 332) At least slightly agree 56 53 Neutral 19 16 At least slightly disagree 24 31 Note. The values represent the percentages of number of bloggers who responded to this question. |
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