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Topic 4 reflection

After the last topic, where we discussed the importance of an authentic online presence, this week, the focus was on the ethical use of social media. It is crucial to not only be authentic but also to be ethical online for both individual users and businesses. Day by day, we bump into several issues raised from our online presence such as data stealing with lack of consent. It was interesting to see that a lot of us wrote about issues of the business use of social media, including myself. Continue reading →

Topic 4 Reflection

The digital divide, endorsement ethics, cyber-bulling, and online security are just some of the many areas looked into this week in Topic 4. Given the topic brief, I decided to look into the world of trolling, cyber-bullying and online abuse in business. I chose this area because as a viewer of blogs and YouTube videos, the sheer amount of abuse and trolling I see on the web is staggering. Continue reading →

Reflection on Topic 4

This has been my favourite #UOSM2008 topic by far, because of the vast variety of issues discussed in each blog. All of our posts resonate with the same standards, and by evaluating our ideas through research we’ve come to a few overall understandings. I focused on the educational use of social media, with special attention to student codes of conduct and free speech; ideas I had brought to light from the beginning of #UOSM2008 (see Intro, topic 2). Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

I feel like this post has brought a lot of internet users together to almost raise awareness about the current ethical issues concerning social media in education and business today. It was very interesting to see how different were the choices, but yet how significant all of them were. One of the most important, to me personally, issues if the digital divide issue and it was pleasant to see how many have discussed it and elaborated on potential solutions. Continue reading →

Reflection on Ethical Issues

Topic 4  has come to an end and I have learnt many new issues that surround the use of social media in different situations. I decided to explore the topic of the digital divide in my blog. I have been acquainted to term quite often, however thinking about how digital age changing and learning about more things through #UOSM2008. I was ever more intrigued in this issue. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

There are many ethical issues raised by the educational use of social media. Unlike previous topics, this week saw a diverse range of different issues within this theme and I thought this made it particularly thought provoking. Shriya’s post highlighted the significant repercussions that occur as a result of students posting inappropriately on social media, against their right to freedom of speech. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflective Summary

It was really interesting this week to see such a range of ethical issues picked up upon and how many different ideas people had. Tom picked up on an issue which linked really nicely with topics from previous weeks, especially topic 3 and having a professional identity online. In the previous topic, there was the suggestion that the easiest way to keep online identities ‘safe for work’ is to keep everything online about you professional. Continue reading →

Topic 4 Reflection

Of all the UOSM2008 topics we’ve covered I have to admit this is the one I struggled with the most. The topic itself was so broad it was hard to choose which ethical issue I wanted to focus on. I focused my post on the concept of almost “too much free speech” and how this can lead to cyberbulling among school children. Shirya’s post added another element to my opinion that I had yet to consider. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

Source: The World Street Journal This week topic was peculiar as it allows every student to independently choose which issue they thought was the most able to be brought by an educational or a business use of social media. Hence, the blogs were centred on a range of topics. I argued in my blog that a business use of social media was seriously putting at risk a company’s entitlement to integrity. Continue reading →

Topic 4 Reflection

Unlike in the previous topics, this one was very broad with people choosing from a whole range of topics. Personally I chose to focus on social media plagiarism. This topic I feel can be summed up with a gif I found on twitter. .@EarthBeauties @WAKEUPPEOPL3 pic.twitter.com/qzLxVqswi4 — PicPedant (@PicPedant) April 27, 2016 It shows the number of different accounts tweeting exactly the same photo with exactly the same caption. Continue reading →

Reflection on “The Digital Divide”

This week’s topic was extremely broad and related to social media ethics, from where I chose to focus my discussion on the digital divide. I had come across the concept of the digital divide before in my studies; however, I was intrigued to look further into its effect on the use of social media in education or business. This is such a significant and continuous ethical issue today. Continue reading →

Topic 4. Summary

When I started researching for topic 4, I could only think about a few ethical issues relating to the use of social media in business and education that are also relevant to other uses of social media. Reading of my peers’ posts helped me realise that the range of issues in these two areas is much broader. They extend from legal implications to social and cultural factors. Continue reading →

TOPIC 4: Reflection

Topic 4 was very diverse in terms of the variety of ethical issues addressed, even though I focussed on ethical issues associated with authenticity of voice in social media use for education, I learnt a lot from others. There were a few posts on the digital divide, I commented on Shaheer’s blog, where I reflected on the divide in more developing countries such as the UK, and the implications for the employment world here. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

As a student, I found this topic particularly valuable due to how relevant the subject area was to our generation. There were so many different angles and approaches that could have been taken because of how broad the topic was. Consequently, this made it difficult for me to narrow it down to one ethical issue relating to social media within business and education. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

Looking into the ethical issues of social media in education appeared to be a pretty simple topic. I thought that my Infographic,  Haiku Deck and PowToon explored all of the possible issues involved and through Digital Citizenship had found a way to put the world to rights. But how wrong was I (!). Stuarts comment on my blog questioned who the educators of social media should be where some businesses and teachers fail to act appropriately online. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

In this topic, my blog post considered the ethical issues surrounding the use of social media by nursing professionals. Jodie’s comment on my post provided me with a fresh perspective on the effectiveness of teaching in the healthcare profession regarding ethical issues of social media. She provided me with another news story about inappropriate use of social media, this time by student nurses. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

This past week has really opened my eyes to a topic that I had never really thought much of before; the digital divide. Due to the fact that we have such easy access to the online world, thinking about how someone doesn’t is hard to wrap your head around. Why is it not the same everywhere? I feel that I have learned quite a bit from this topic, as the above statement was my state of mind before I looked into this subject. Continue reading →