A Newly Emerging Ethical Problem in PGIS - Ubiquitous Atoque Absconditus and Casual Offenders for Pleasure

Koshiro Susuki

2018

Abstract

Thanks to the recent technological advances of cellular phones, the practical realization of GeoAPI and SNS, and the consolidation of wireless LAN networks, hardware has become capable of providing portable high-speed Internet access and interactive SNS, and people can now easily communicate far more, casually and unboundedly, via the Internet. Currently, PGIS studies mainly look at the ‘sunny side’ of GIT progress. Although there are also relevant studies on online ethics, they rely unduly on spontaneously arising equilibrium innervated by mutual surveillance among the people involved. However, it is an over-optimistic and ingenuous perception regarding this exponential technological advance. In this paper, the author illustrates the existence of ‘casual offenders for pleasure’ by referring to two recent online cyberbullying incidents. Because the appreciation of technology-aided ubiquitous mapping can be very hard to see or to grasp, especially for people not educated and trained to see it, the advances prompt people to nonchalantly lower technical and ethical barriers. Further studies are essential to establish the geographic information ethics and offer a clear-cut answer for this newly emerging problem.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Susuki K. (2018). A Newly Emerging Ethical Problem in PGIS - Ubiquitous Atoque Absconditus and Casual Offenders for Pleasure.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-294-3, pages 22-27. DOI: 10.5220/0006640100220027

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam18,
author={Koshiro Susuki},
title={A Newly Emerging Ethical Problem in PGIS - Ubiquitous Atoque Absconditus and Casual Offenders for Pleasure},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2018},
pages={22-27},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006640100220027},
isbn={978-989-758-294-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - A Newly Emerging Ethical Problem in PGIS - Ubiquitous Atoque Absconditus and Casual Offenders for Pleasure
SN - 978-989-758-294-3
AU - Susuki K.
PY - 2018
SP - 22
EP - 27
DO - 10.5220/0006640100220027