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General feedback on Topic 4

There was a broad range of possible topics to choose from and collectively you have covered a variety of ethical issues around business or educational applications of social media. It is clear that you have also learned a lot from reading and commenting on the work of your colleagues with different viewpoints. Some of you have started to “coast” a little bit, now that you’ve got the hang of how it all works. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

My blog post this week discussed the use of social media by businesses and the corresponding ethnical complications. It is particularly difficult for businesses to protect their image and reputation online, as increasingly large numbers of their employees have various social media profiles. With this, employees are able to voice their negative opinions regarding the business to their numerous contacts. Continue reading →

Topic 4 – Reflection

This week (months) topic was a lot broader than some of the other topics that we had faced in the previous weeks, allowing us to choose a specific area to target our answers. Since we had a lot more choice in the presentation of our answers, there were a lot of different conclusions that the class made on this subject. I personally focused my answer around social media being used socially and professionally by teachers in schools, colleges or Universities. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflective Summary

The Ethics surrounding Social Media for Marketing from the perspective of a Business remains a grey area. Previous to this topic I hadn’t considered the implications, or the use of Social Media in regards to Education, but to avoid this post being an explanation of how this works I will instead focus on its use by Businesses. Namat shows the problems that arise for a company when a fake account is set up. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

Topic 4 definitely showed the most varied collection of posts to date. From the ethics behind celebrity endorsements to the relentlessness of social media, this topic proved to be tightly packed with a wealth of different concepts. Social media offers some incredibly powerful tools – we know this after completing all of the previous topics. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflective Summary of Ethical Issues

I found topic 4 the most interesting topic because it was open to any ethical issue about the educational or business use of social media. After doing some research, the processing and selling of our data by social media organisations to the third party companies cought my attention to be discussed for topic 4. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection on Ethics

This topic was ostensibly about the ethical issues that are attached to business and educational use of social media. Oddly, at the end of the exercise, I’ve concluded that it is we, as individuals, who have the critical role in ensuring companies, individuals and educational establishments act appropriately. Continue reading →

Ethics in the Web

I thought that the nature of the question asked prepared me for the wave of different issues and viewpoints presented by students, but the variety of posts surprised me once again. At that point during the module everyone seems to have a deeper awareness of the issues and possibilities created by massive use of the Internet. However, the way in which one used this information in order to identify and describe ethical issues surprised me. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflective Summary

After reading Topic 4’s blog post it has become clear that there is no clear or simple solution to ethical breaches, involved with social media usage in both business and the educational sector. There is no single solution because not only have we learnt over the course of this module that social media can be difficult to monitor, but also because ethics themselves are a ‘grey area’. Continue reading →

Topic 4: SUMMARY – Blogger’s Belief – Identity Theft and The ‘Facebook Stalker’

During this topic, I was fascinated to learn some of the other blogger’s beliefs on some of the challenges and ethics of social media. My own blog post focussed on some of the misuses of social media that can lead to breaches in privacy. However Tatiana discussed some of the misuses in terms of ‘careless venting’. She triggered some thoughts relating to whether free speech is something to remain free, or something to regulate and mediate. Continue reading →

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