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    Following Snowden: an international survey
    with Kiyoshi Murata and Ana María Lara Palma
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 336-343. 2017.
    Purpose This paper aims to present the baseline English survey used in the other papers in this special issue. Design/methodology/approach The survey includes yes/no, Likert scale and free text responses, which were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. Findings Respondents to the survey expressed divergent views of whether they would emulate Snowden, even though most in all countries believed he had helped rather than harmed society. Originality/value This is the only such broad survey on …Read more
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    The social impact of Snowden’s revelations on Mexican youngsters
    with Juan Carlos Yáñez-Luna, Pedro I. González Ramírez, Mario Arias-Oliva, and Kiyoshi Murata
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 283-296. 2017.
    Purpose As part of an international study of knowledge of and attitudes to Snowden’s revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency/Government Communications Headquarters, this paper aims to deal with Mexico, taking its socio-cultural and political environment surrounding privacy and state surveillance into account. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was answered by 160 Mexican University students. The quantitative responses to the survey were statistically analysed as…Read more
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    Few youngsters would follow Snowden’s lead in Japan
    with Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta, and Yohko Orito
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 197-212. 2017.
    PurposeThis paper aims to deal with the attitudes towards and social impact of Edward Snowden’s revelations in Japan, taking the Japanese socio-cultural and political environment surrounding privacy and state surveillance into account.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire survey of 1,820 university students and semi-structured follow-up interviews with 56 respondents were conducted, in addition to reviews of the literature on privacy and state surveillance in Japan. The outcomes of the surv…Read more
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    Snowden’s revelations and the attitudes of students at Swedish universities
    with Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Ryoko Asai, and Kiyoshi Murata
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 247-264. 2017.
    Purpose This study aims to map Swedish students’ attitudes towards Snowden’s revelations and their effects in the political and socio-cultural environment of Sweden. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was answered by 190 Swedish university students. The quantitative responses to the survey and qualitative considerations of free text answers were statistically analysed. Findings Swedish students had a high level of knowledge about the Snowden revelations; they actively searched for infor…Read more
  •  9
    Following Snowden: a cross-cultural study on the social impact of Snowden’s revelations
    with Kiyoshi Murata and Ana María Lara Palma
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 183-196. 2017.
    Purpose This paper aims to introduce a cross-cultural study of the views and implications of Snowden’s revelations about NSA/GCHQ surveillance practices, undertaken through surveys administered in eight countries. The aims and academic and social significance are explained, and justification is offered for the methods used. Design/methodology/approach Pilot surveys were deployed in two countries, following which revised versions were deployed in eight countries. Quantitative analysis of suitable…Read more
  •  12
    Following Snowden, German uncertainty about monitoring
    with Sarah Hosell and Kiyoshi Murata
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 232-246. 2017.
    PurposeAs part of an international study of knowledge of and attitudes to Snowden’s revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency/Government Communications Headquarters, this paper aims to deal with Germany, taking its socio-cultural and political environment surrounding privacy and state surveillance into account.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was answered by 76 German University students. The quantitative responses to the survey were statistically analysed as wel…Read more
  •  15
    Ripples down under: New Zealand youngsters’ attitudes and conduct following Snowden
    with Gehan Gunasekara and Kiyoshi Murata
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 297-310. 2017.
    Purpose This study aims to test the attitudes towards and social consequences of Edward Snowden’s revelations in New Zealand, taking into account New Zealand’s socio-cultural and political environment especially as regards privacy and state surveillance. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey of 66 university students and semi-structured follow-up interviews with 18 respondents were conducted, in addition to reviews of the literature on privacy and state surveillance in New Zealand. …Read more
  •  27
    Following Snowden around the World
    with Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta, Yohko Orito, and Ana María Lara Palma
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 311-327. 2017.
    Purpose A survey of the attitudes of students in eight countries towards the revelations of mass surveillance by the US’ NSA and the UK’s GCHQ has been described in an introductory paper and seven country-specific papers. This paper aims to present a comparison of the results from these countries and draws conclusions about the similarities and differences noted. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was deployed in Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, The People’s Republic of China, Spain…Read more
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    Surveillance following Snowden: a major challenge in Spain
    with Mario Arias-Oliva, Ana María Lara Palma, and Kiyoshi Murata
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 265-282. 2017.
    Purpose This study aims to analyse the impacts of Edward Snowden’s revelations in Spain focusing on issues of privacy and state surveillance. This research takes into consideration the Spanish context from a multidimensional perspective: social, cultural, legal and political. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the Spanish privacy and state surveillance situation. Responses to a questionnaire were collected from 207 university students studying at Universitat Rovira i Virgili or Burgos…Read more
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    How Snowden’s revelations have influenced youngsters’ attitude and behaviour in the PRC and Taiwan
    with Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta, and Dang Ronghua
    Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 15 (3): 213-231. 2017.
    Purpose This study aims to investigate how Snowden’s revelations are viewed by young people in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan through questionnaire surveys of and follow-up interviews with university students in the two countries, taking into account the histories and current status of state surveillance in these countries and the current complicated and delicate cross-strait relationships. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaire surveys of 315 PRC and 111 Taiwanese university stude…Read more
  •  19
    From a science fiction to reality
    with Kiyoshi Murata, Yasunori Fukuta, Yohko Orito, Mario Arias-Oliva, and Jorge Pelegrin-Borondo
    Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 47 (3): 72-85. 2017.
    This study deals with young people's attitudes towards and social acceptance of "cyborg technology" including wearables and insideables to enhance human ability in Japan as part of the international research project on cyborg ethics, taking Japanese socio-cultural characteristics surrounding cyborg technology into consideration. Those subjects were investigated through questionnaire surveys of Japanese university students, which were conducted in November and December 2016. The survey results de…Read more
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    The Japanese sense of information privacy
    with Kiyoshi Murata and Yohko Orito
    AI and Society 24 (4): 327-341. 2009.
    We analyse the contention that privacy is an alien concept within Japanese society, put forward in various presentations of Japanese cultural norms at least as far back as Benedict in The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1946. In this paper we distinguish between information privacy and physical privacy. As we show, there is good evidence for social norms of limits on the sharing and use of personal information (i.e. information privacy) from t…Read more
  •  35
    Emerging Social Norms in the UK and Japan on Privacy and Revelation in SNS
    with Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito, and Pat Parslow
    International Review of Information Ethics 16 12. 2011.
    Semi-structured interviews with university students in the UK and Japan, undertaken in 2009 and 2010, are analysed with respect to the revealed attitudes to privacy, self-revelation and revelation by/of others on SNS
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    The ethical challenges of ubiquitous healthcare
    with Ian Brown
    International Review of Information Ethics 8 (12): 53-60. 2007.
    Ubiquitous healthcare is an emerging area of technology that uses a large number of environmental and patient sensors and actuators to monitor and improve patients' physical and mental condition. Tiny sensors gather data on almost any physiological characteristic that can be used to diagnose health problems. This technology faces some challenging ethical questions, ranging from the small-scale individual issues of trust and efficacy to the societal issues of health and longevity gaps related to …Read more