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Ethics and Website Content

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Cyberethics; Ethics and e-business; Internet ethics; Web design ethics; Web ethics and e-issues

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The conduct of every community is governed by certain set of ethics. A notion within any community that everyone is accountable for their action and answerable to other members is fundamentally devised by ethical values. Though there may be no punishment for violating ethical standards, but they lead and characterize behavioral norms of any community. In the age where accurate, comprehensive, and apt information has a pivotal role to play, the initiation of World Wide Web has introduced us to Web Community. In fact significant percentage of social activities, business processes, governance, and maintenance of personal relation across the world, today, somewhere relies on effective online exchange of information available upon social, organizational, or personal websites.

Furthermore, websites offer new applications and tools to disseminate and monitor information for...

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  1. UVAS Business School, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Ali Hamza

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Hamza, M.A. (2018). Ethics and Website Content. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3021-1

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