[Sigia-l] Ethical Issues for Information Architects

[Thomas J. Froehlich]

I am working on a paper for the European IA Summit in September on 
ethical issues for Information Architects.  What kinds of ethical 
issues arise in IA practice, ethical issues that are more or less 
distinctive for IAs?  There is a lot of HCI literature on the proper 
use of human subjects, but are there distinctive problems for 
IAs?  What would they be? Can you provide any specific examples? I 
suspect that ethical problems would occur between the architects and 
the clients or the architects and upper management.   If you were 
created a code of ethics for IAs, what would it include?   I would 
appreciate any thoughts, cases or examples.


Thomas J. Froehlich, Ph.D., Professor and Director
Master's Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management 
(http://iakm.kent.edu)
316 Library
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242-0001

http://www.personal.kent.edu/~tfroehli/
tfroehli at kent.edu