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This group will focus on research related to ethical and
policy issues within the Information Sciences, particularly
those related to applications of technology to major challenges
facing society. These challenges include such topics as:
- meeting
the information needs of an aging population;
- developing
secure information systems while protecting the privacy
of personally identifiable information;
- incorporating
diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and values into
the development, management and use of information systems;
- developing and evaluating pedagogical methods for incorporating
an understanding of policy and ethical issues into IT
and other IS and LIS courses;
- studying the interaction
between government, technology, and industry as related
to the telecommunications and information industries;
- identifying and using case studies, such as the impact
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the recent NARA reclassification
controversy, for teaching and for research topics
- understanding
the cost structures of information infrastructures
- understanding
the role, or lack thereof, of professional codes of ethics
in guiding information professionals
- ensuring methods
of preserving older records and documents (from paper
to print to digital) in the midst of rapidly changing
electronic information systems for purposes of accountability
and evidence
Expertise from interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students
will develop a research agenda, defining key research questions
and using both qualitative and quantitative methods to design
applied research projects in collaboration with experts from
other disciplines, such as sociology, economics, political
science, computer science, engineering, psychology, social
work, philosophy, and education. |
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