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 Photo Credits: Wallumi “With great power reflection, comes great responsibility learning.”  After reading my classmates’ posts, various aspects on different ethical issues for educational and business usage of social media were discussed. I will be sharing about my learning points gained from some of the interesting posts that I have read. One of them that caught my attention was Patricia’s. Continue reading →

Credits: Image Source Yet another topic down. With every topic, there is much to learn, and this is what I have learnt from my classmates Daphne and Yu Ting. Daphne talked about a teacher Krista Hodges who complained about her students on twitter using the words “hate” and “ugly”. She was not fired and simply deleted all of her social media accounts. Continue reading →

Someecards This topic has given me insights to ethical issues of business and education with regards to the use of social media. Several classmates have my drawn attention to the what they think are the most significant ethical issues. Both Khai and Isaac shared pretty much the same idea about companies leveraging on incidences of others to gain publicity. My takeaways and learning points from their post is that companies need to practice good judgement as there are many grey areas. Continue reading →

Howdy there again! I have come across by Isaac‘s post which I believe built on further on what I have previously shared on social media ethics for businesses. I commented on his post to share my thoughts of the 2 examples he showed, which led to my agreement with Augie Ray’s criticism towards Ford’s use of brand imagery in response to the capture of the Boston bomber. Continue reading →

This discussion topic was rather eye-opening to me with many different posts from my peers from different perspective. Since I have shared my discussion on Business use, I would like to reflect about Educational use of social media issues. I personally feel that all of the information shared among each other is enriching but I would like to further emphasize on Sylvia’s and Ian’s post where they mentioned about Cyber-Bullying. Continue reading →

Social media has become a powerful tool for businesses to deliver a message to its’ consumers. “Amplification” is one of the elements that are being created through social media (Forbes 2014). However, some of the ethical issues that they face may bring detrimental effects on the brand (Insider 2012). I believe that one of the most significant issues would be the exploitation of others’ misfortune. Continue reading →

Ethical issues often deal with what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad, and what rights and responsibilities people should have (Ask.com, 2014). The uses of social media is increasing, students are now digitally connected with one another and teachers nowadays are open to the concept of being their ‘friend’ online. Gradually over time, educational system and modules are going online, such as having excel or access classes, and even online modules. Continue reading →

While social media offers educators the capacity to teach and innovate beyond the four walls of the classroom, it has also posed a number of ethical challenges for educators. Social networking and blogging sites, in particular, have been under the negative spotlight due to widespread cases of cyberbullying which have triggered a panic button among both the business and academic communities. (Green & Hannon, 2007). Continue reading →

(Photo Credit: Deloitte) With technology these days, social media is an umbrella that is used to describe social interactions and brings many benefits to the user and global community. While its’ use may seem rather straightforward, there are many ethical challenges that need to be explored and discussed (shown in the graph above). Continue reading →