Analysis of Information Technology Ethics Issues by High School Students

高中生信息技术伦理问题分析

• 批准号: 9818211
• 负责人: Lynne Anderson-Inman
• 金额: $ 21.92万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-15 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9818211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Analysis; Information; Technology; Ethics; Issues

As information technologies are becoming important tools in schools and in mainstream society, families and schools will bear an important responsibility to assist young people in gaining the moral reasoning, motivation, and control to engage in ethical behavior while using these new technologies. The objective of the proposed study is to investigate how high school students analyze issues related to the ethical use of information and communication technologies, including the Internet. The study will examine ethical issues pertaining to copyright infringement, computer security violations (hacking), disrespectful speech (flaming, harassment, violation of privacy), and accessing or publishing potentially harmful material (pornography and hate literature). The study will seek to determine the factors that influence students' analyses of scenarios that describe inappropriate acts, such as students' developmental characteristics, life situations (gender, amount of computer use), knowledge of the law, the nature of the act (type of victim or amount of harm), and the reasoning process that students engage in, in making their determinations. Knowledge gained through the study will provide the basis for the development of effective environmental, instructional, and intervention strategies to assist students in gaining the moral reasoning, motivation, and control to engage in ethical behavior while using new technologies. The subjects for the research will be 200 high school students who have had Internet access through home or school for a period of at least one year. The study will make use of three standardized measurement instruments for the measurement of cognitive-moral development, empathic tendencies, and self-understanding. An information technology ethics questionnaire will be developed for the purposes of this study. The questionnaire will be designed to investigate various aspects of students' evaluation of the appropriateness of the acts that involve the use of information technologies, their knowledge of rules, and their reasoning process. Both quantitative and qualitative data will be gathered through the questionnaire. The analysis of the data will reveal potential relationships between cognitive moral development, empathic tendencies, self-understanding and the subjects' analysis of various information technology-related acts.

随着信息技术正在成为学校和主流社会的重要工具，家庭和学校将承担重要的责任，帮助年轻人在使用这些新技术时获得道德推理、动机和控制，以从事道德行为。本研究的目的是调查高中生如何分析与道德使用信息和通信技术有关的问题，包括互联网。该研究将审查与侵犯版权、违反计算机安全（黑客攻击）、不尊重言论（燃烧、骚扰、侵犯隐私）以及访问或发布潜在有害材料（色情和仇恨文学）有关的道德问题。该研究将试图确定影响学生对描述不当行为的情景分析的因素，如学生的发展特征、生活状况（性别、计算机使用量）、法律知识、行为性质（受害者类型或伤害程度），以及学生在做出决定时所参与的推理过程。通过研究获得的知识将为开发有效的环境，教学和干预策略提供基础，以帮助学生在使用新技术时获得道德推理，动机和控制从事道德行为。这项研究的对象是200名通过家庭或学校上网至少一年的高中生。本研究将使用三种标准化的测量工具来测量认知道德发展、共情倾向和自我理解。本研究将编制一份资讯科技伦理问卷。调查问卷的目的是调查学生对涉及使用信息技术的行为的适当性、他们对规则的了解以及他们的推理过程的各个方面的评价。通过问卷调查收集定量和定性数据。对数据的分析将揭示认知道德发展、共情倾向、自我理解与受试者对各种信息技术相关行为的分析之间的潜在关系。