2016, Page 16

Privacy and security infringement to cynical misconduct in marketing are the common unethical behaviours that exist today due to profits and power to gain from selfish actions. Countries which are economically stable, can afford to invest more in technological development. This allows Internet to have a greater impact on life today, thus revolutionising how we educate and work. Continue reading →

With the new developments in technology companies are becoming more innovative and skilful in performing functions. It is visible throughout the different functions of the company. Unfortunately, some of these new innovative ways aren’t really the most ethical. When looking into the function of marketing it was evident in according to Angelines‘ blog that some companies use “unannounced” endorsements. Continue reading →

Source Where does one draw the line between ethical and unethical practices? In the current digital environment, businesses have taken their practices online to take advantage of the technological boom. By doing so, raised an assortment of ethical issues that businesses battle on a daily basis. Charissa mentioned on her blog the need for businesses to practice transparency in their social media advertising strategy. Continue reading →

With ethics being an umbrella topic provides great room for discussion. It was interesting to read on others’ concept of what is deemed ethical or not. As ethics are developed upon personal beliefs, cultures, upbringing etc; it is likely that I may have some slight disagreement with my peers. Xinlin’s post on media manipulation was one which I disagreed on. The fact that Victoria’s Secret’s perfect body campaign warrants public denigration is uncertain to me. Continue reading →

In my post, I addressed how a business use of social media can aggravate unethical behaviour. Own Image But reading Jim’s post introduced another perspective. He reminded me that a director, or specifically, the job role itself has its own “ethics” too. He is accountable to the shareholders. For him, not earning profit may be unethical. Because he did not fulfil his promise to the shareholders. But for us (the customer), we view the ‘profit-earning’ mindset as a sabotage. Continue reading →

(Image created by me) The array of issues that arise with the use of social media for education and businesses significantly challenges the ethics of a digitally connected world. Ethics (or lack thereof) in social media marketing Of the many discussions raised, I took particular interest to the issues surfaced through social media marketing. Continue reading →

As the title suggests, this post is a follow up from my previous entry which talks about Identity Theft. If you haven’t read it you can read it here. Ethical issues consist of a broad range of problems and Identity Theft is merely one of them. Being aware of such issues allows individuals to be better protected against them, thus here’s two other problems summarized from Brenden and Jeremiah. Continue reading →

(Source: ILM) Everyone will go through an ethical dilemma between an apparent mental conflict moral imperatives before they reach a decision to be ethical or not in that specific issue. As much as social media has its perks for being engaging, interactive and easily accessible any where, the downfalls of it can be severe, leading to unethical methods through educational or business usage. Continue reading →

As social media is now widely used by people around the world, and with technology ever evolving, businesses and education are jumping on the bandwagon, mining on the ‘gold’ of social media. Inevitably, ethical issues arise. The below shows some of the ethical issues raised by the class: (Image: Information summarised from classmates blog posts, own graphics, 2016) Business and Social Media Ethical Issues There are several ethical business issues with regards to the use of social media. Continue reading →

Created by Julaina via Piktochart. Information via Teresa’s Powtoon Ethical issues can come in many forms. After reading Teresa’s post, I learned a new term called Astroturfing. There are many other categories that falls under Astroturfing as seen above. From my post, I believe it can be categorised under “fake blogging” as the company wanted to hide important and relevant information from its consumers. Continue reading →