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Information ethics on social networks: students perspective

Social networks, as one of the most modern ways of communication, become an important communication channel with a certain influence reach in the academic world along with the classical media. The aim of this paper was to examine whether students that use social networks as a communication channel for the academic purposes are ethically involved in the production, collection, dissemination and use of information, do they follow the rules of conduct on social networks, respect privacy, intellectual freedom and intellectual property. For this purpose, a quantitative research was conducted in the form of the questionnaire among students at University College Algebra. The results have shown that over 80% of respondents seek ethically access to production, collection, dissemination and use of information on social networks, and it is very important to respect the rights of other people to privacy when collecting and publishing information on social networks. On the other hand, with regard to the intellectual property, it is interesting to note that every fifth respondent believes that citing and referral is not important when collecting and publishing information on social networks.

information ethics, social networks, rules of conduct, privacy, citing

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