A Conversation Design for Systemic Research on and Betterment of the Ethicality of Information Systems Embedded in Human Organizations

A general conversation design is described. It is a prototypical map that can be detailed and followed to facilitate human inquiry and foster improvements at the interface of social and information systems in human organizations. The design consists of four stages. The Es of praxiology is a conceptual scheme to articulate discussion, as are the use of case studies in the design. Two case study exemplars, one about the ethics of information systems and the other about ethics in research, serve to provide the substance by which participants can converse, and repeatedly traverse the four stages to generate a stream of discourse.