M J Heron
Biographic Data
| ID | 1359768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Heron |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Heron |
| SIGNATURE | HERON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Robert Gordon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3393-0733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania
Communication Challenges in Social Board Games
Background Discussion-based communication scenarios are present in many aspects of life. These can range from conversations with friends in a social setting to formal consultation processes and focus groups used by industry and government. However, reliance on speech does not easily permit the fair and equitable involvement of people who face communication-based accessibility challenges. Aim This work aimed to understand the communication challen…
Project Unplug - A Personal Reflection on Rediscovering the Joy in Being Online
In 2021 I realised that large swathes of the Internet were making me sad. I resolved to do something about it. The result was a focused, intense process of finding the mechanisms by which I could optimise my relationship with the online world. I resolved to focus on those things that brought me sustained happiness, as opposed to those things that merely offered transient pleasure. I ripped toxic websites out of my life, and limited my exposure to…
Things Fall Apart - Concluding the Scandal in Academia
For several years, the authors of this paper have been providing an extended commentary on the Scandal in Academia - a fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein's Case of the Killer Robot, it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals, concepts and considerations. It touches upon the comple…
Whistleblowers in an Academic Gift Culture - A Commentary on the Scandal in Academia
The Scandal in Academia is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein's Case of the Killer Robot, it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trialed and evaluated as a teaching tool by …
Authoritarianism and anonymity: Continuing to Explore the "Scandal in Academia"
The Scandal in Academia [32] [33] [34] [35] is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein [17] [18] it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trailed and evaluated as a teaching tool b…
Disclosure and disavowal: Professional Issues in the Scandal in Academia
The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper…
Pacman’s Canon in C: A Quantum Interpretation of Video Game Canon
The quantified university: An analysis of the Scandal in Academia
The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper…
Musings on misconduct: A Practitioner Reflection on the Ethical Investigation of Plagiarism Within Programming Modules
Tools for algorithmically detecting plagiarism have become very popular, but none of these tools offers an effective and reliable way to identify plagiarism within academic software development. As a result, the identification of plagiarism within programming submissions remains an issue of academic judgment. The number of submissions that come in to a large programming class can frustrate the ability to fully investigate each submission for conf…
Power and perception in the scandal in academia
The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper…
Fuzzy ethics: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bot
The recent death of a Volkswagen worker at the hand of a factory robot has resulted in a number of editorials and opinion pieces discussing moral responsibility and robots. In this short response piece we outline some of the wider context of this discussion, with reference to the classic ethical study the Case of the Killer Robot. We argue that there is a growing need for the field of computer ethics to consider with some urgency what it means to…
Ethics in context: A Scandal in Academia
The delivery of ethical instruction within formal educational contexts is a task that is fraught with difficulties. Real world situations and examples of misconduct abound, but sourcing sufficient material within the constraints associated with developing course materials can be time-consuming. The availability of resources to illustrate relevant aspects may not be available, or may not fully emphasize the issues that educators wish to incorporat…
Sexism in the circuitry: Female Participation in Male-Dominated Popular Computer Culture
In this paper, the authors discuss sexism and misogyny within video game culture through the lens of two high-profile examples of cyber-mob harassment and vilification of 'girls in gaming'. We discuss the representation of women within games as a set up for a discussion of Anita Sarkeesian and her Women versus Tropes in Games Youtube series. We then discuss indie game developer Zoe Quinn and what has become known online as 'gamergate. We use logs…
Daily Life in Colonial Peru, 1710-1820
The Art of Iran
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Daily Life in Colonial Peru, 1710-1820
Ethics in context: A Scandal in Academia
The delivery of ethical instruction within formal educational contexts is a task that is fraught with difficulties. Real world situations and examples of misconduct abound, but sourcing sufficient material within the constraints associated with developing course materials can be time-consuming. The availability of resources to illustrate relevant aspects may not be available, or may not fully emphasize the issues that educators wish to incorporat…
Sexism in the circuitry: Female Participation in Male-Dominated Popular Computer Culture
In this paper, the authors discuss sexism and misogyny within video game culture through the lens of two high-profile examples of cyber-mob harassment and vilification of 'girls in gaming'. We discuss the representation of women within games as a set up for a discussion of Anita Sarkeesian and her Women versus Tropes in Games Youtube series. We then discuss indie game developer Zoe Quinn and what has become known online as 'gamergate. We use logs…
Power and perception in the scandal in academia
The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper…
Fuzzy ethics: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bot
The recent death of a Volkswagen worker at the hand of a factory robot has resulted in a number of editorials and opinion pieces discussing moral responsibility and robots. In this short response piece we outline some of the wider context of this discussion, with reference to the classic ethical study the Case of the Killer Robot. We argue that there is a growing need for the field of computer ethics to consider with some urgency what it means to…
The quantified university: An analysis of the Scandal in Academia
The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper…
Musings on misconduct: A Practitioner Reflection on the Ethical Investigation of Plagiarism Within Programming Modules
Tools for algorithmically detecting plagiarism have become very popular, but none of these tools offers an effective and reliable way to identify plagiarism within academic software development. As a result, the identification of plagiarism within programming submissions remains an issue of academic judgment. The number of submissions that come in to a large programming class can frustrate the ability to fully investigate each submission for conf…
Pacman’s Canon in C: A Quantum Interpretation of Video Game Canon
Disclosure and disavowal: Professional Issues in the Scandal in Academia
The Scandal in Academia is a large-scale fictional ethical case study of around 17,000 words and fourteen separate revelations. They are delivered as newspaper extracts from a newspaper reporting on an ongoing crisis at a Scottish educational institution. The scandal case study as presented in its original form comes with only limited commentary on the ethical issues raised, concentrating instead on providing the scenario in isolation. This paper…
Authoritarianism and anonymity: Continuing to Explore the "Scandal in Academia"
The Scandal in Academia [32] [33] [34] [35] is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein [17] [18] it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trailed and evaluated as a teaching tool b…
Whistleblowers in an Academic Gift Culture - A Commentary on the Scandal in Academia
The Scandal in Academia is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein's Case of the Killer Robot, it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trialed and evaluated as a teaching tool by …
Communication Challenges in Social Board Games
Background Discussion-based communication scenarios are present in many aspects of life. These can range from conversations with friends in a social setting to formal consultation processes and focus groups used by industry and government. However, reliance on speech does not easily permit the fair and equitable involvement of people who face communication-based accessibility challenges. Aim This work aimed to understand the communication challen…
Project Unplug - A Personal Reflection on Rediscovering the Joy in Being Online
In 2021 I realised that large swathes of the Internet were making me sad. I resolved to do something about it. The result was a focused, intense process of finding the mechanisms by which I could optimise my relationship with the online world. I resolved to focus on those things that brought me sustained happiness, as opposed to those things that merely offered transient pleasure. I ripped toxic websites out of my life, and limited my exposure to…
Things Fall Apart - Concluding the Scandal in Academia
For several years, the authors of this paper have been providing an extended commentary on the Scandal in Academia - a fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein's Case of the Killer Robot, it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals, concepts and considerations. It touches upon the comple…
Exploring the antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis: A case study from medieval Transylvania
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