Doing the right thing online: a survey of bloggers' ethical beliefs and practices

This study explores the ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers — personal and non-personal — through a worldwide web survey. A stratified purposive sample of 1224 bloggers provided information about their blogging experience, blogging habits and demographics. They were aske...

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Published in:New media & society 2009-06, Vol.11 (4), p.575-597
Main Authors: Cenite, Mark, Detenber, Benjamin H., Koh, Andy W.K., Lim, Alvin L.H., Ng Ee Soon
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