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

Identity theft is a challenging subject which very few people understand, nor believe it will happen to them. Whilst traditional ideas of identity theft consists of bank fraud (not shredding bank statements), there’s a new strain of fraud associated with our online identities. As an avid user of social media, and a lover of Facebook and Instagram, I feel strongly in favour of the right to privacy – and websites should be doing more to help us with it. Fire et al. Continue reading →

Business Ethics: Endorsements are a Treacherous Path.

“Social-media-ad spending is expected to reach a total of $4.8 billion at the end of 2012 and $9.8 billion by 2016″. Bloomberg The use of social media by companies to market their brand is one of the most successful ways to receive maximum publicity with a minimal budget. No matter what the business, people want to be in the know and that involves knowing what others think. However, the ethics surrounding online reviews and endorsements can be a grey area. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Freedom of Speech vs. ‘Twibel’

This video provides an introduction to the relationship between free speech and social media. “Context is everything” – Director of Public Prosecutions. As social media becomes increasingly prominent, the boundary between an individual’s professional and social life becomes gradually blurred. In Topic 3, I discussed how, depending on content, the use of social media platforms by employers and potential employees could either increase or decrease job prospects. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Regulation and the Internet

Prior to the digital revolution, options of being heard were limited to the ‘Speakers corner’. In the 80’s, chances that you could influence someone were small, as you had to be educated, whereas now, all you need is the Internet and a “click that reverberates around the world” (Lewinsky 2015) Today, if we speak strongly about something, YouTube can be our Speakers Corner, as well as Twitter, Facebook, blogs etc., as a cultural gatekeeper no longer controls us. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Ethics and the Internet

Prior to the digital revolution, options of being heard were limited to the ‘Speakers corner’. In the 80’s, chances that you could influence someone were small, as you had to be educated, whereas now, all you need is the Internet and a “click that reverberates around the world” (Lewinsky 2015) Today, social networking sites can be our Speakers Corner,as a cultural gatekeeper no longer controls us. Continue reading →

How MOOC platforms use our data

The biggest disruption made by technology in education in recent years has been the invention of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) [1]. They consists of a series of videos, additional reading and accompanying exercises delivered via the Internet for free.The opportunity to take such courses, lectured by world-class researchers from best universities in the world, has been seized by millions of people. Creation of such online module costs. Continue reading →

Topic 4- Ethical Violations in the Workplace

Before reading this post, I kindly ask that you briefly learn about employee social media use inside and outside of the workplace in the video below. Over the years there have been many benefits that social media has brought to the corporate world. For many companies across the globe, social media has allowed new ways of connecting with potential and current customers, employees, suppliers and other stakeholders. Continue reading →

Business, privacy, social media: Can’t we just all get along?

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” -Google CEO Eric Schmidt [1] Over the past weeks we have inspected and dissected our actions on the web, both social and professional, separately and combined but with the overbearing implicit theme that the walls between aspects of our life are slowly starting to crumble. Continue reading →

Ethical issues raised by educational use of social media

Please read these notes and check out the links below, before preparing and posting your answer to the set question. This document should be regarded as just the start of the discussion, which are then developed over the next two weeks through the conversations themselves and the sharing of further relevant links. These articles are intended to give you a flavour of the topic, and get you started on answering the Topic 4 set question below. Relevant articles/videos http://www. Continue reading →