INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT THEORIES OF ETHICS ON ORGANIZATIONAL CODES OF CONDUCT OR ETHICS: A COMPARATIVE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of various theories of ethics on codes of conduct or codes of ethics of computing and data organizations. To quantify and evaluate the differences in influence, four Python libraries, namely difflib, gensim, nltk, and spaCy, and, in addition, a web-based proprietary semantic similarity tool, Compare Text, were used. The codes of seven computing and data organizations for Information Technology (IT) professionals and scholars were compared to the descriptions of five different schools of ethical thought through four different tools. The findings were tabularized, summarized in radar charts, and their implications were discussed: It was found that there are some differences of influence on the codes by different theories. However, the percentages of similarities calculated by each tool were observed to differ, on some occasions, considerably. Finally, contributions and limitations of the current work and recommendations for further studies were presented.

Keywords

• Codes of conduct or ethics
• Compare Text
• computing and data organizations
• Python
• semantic similarity
• theories of ethics.

FARKLI ETİK KURAMLARININ KURUMSAL ETİK TUTUM VE DAVRANIŞ KURALLARINA ETKİSİ: BİR KARŞILAŞTIRMALI SEMANTİK ANALİZ

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı çeşitli etik kuramlarının, bilgisayar ve veri derneklerine ait etik tutum ve davranış kuralları üzerindeki etkilerini incelemektir. Etkilerin arasındaki farkları ölçmek ve değerlendirmek için, dört Python kütüphanesi, difflib, gensim, nltk ve spaCy, ve bunlara ek olarak web-tabanlı ve lisanslı bir semantik benzerlik aracı olan Compare Text kullanılmıştır. Bilişim Teknolojisi (BT) profesyonelleri ve akademisyenlerine ait yedi bilişim ve veri derneğinin kuralları, beş farklı etik düşünce ekolünün betimlemeleri ile karşılaştırılmıştır. Bulgular tablolanmış, radar çizimleri biçiminde özetlenmiş ve sonuçları tartışılmıştır. Farklı kuramların, kurallar üzerinde bir miktar farklı etkilerinin olduğu saptanmıştır. Bunun yanısıra, bazı araçlar ile hesaplanan benzerlik yüzdelerinin diğerlerininkinden ciddi ölçüde farklı olduğu gözlemlenmiştir. Son olarak, mevcut çalışmanın katkıları ve sınırları ile gelecekteki çalışmalar için öneriler sunulmuştur.

Keywords

• Bilişim ve veri dernekleri
• compare text
• etik tutum ve davranış kuralları
• semantik analiz
• etik kuramları

Supporting Institution

Çalışma için herhangi bir kurumdan destek alınmamıştır.

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