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A Reflection on Ethical Issues of Social Media

Discussing this week’s topic has opened my eyes to a whole range of new ethical issues that have arisen due to the advent of online social media. Since writing my own blog, and reading others, I have realised that many of these issues have no clear solution. Que’s post really highlighted one of the main issues for me, which is the potential danger that children and teenagers are exposed to online. Continue reading →

Reflecting on topic 4:Looking at the ethical issues of social media

  Via Guerilla Marketer – http://goo.gl/O6zlIG This week’s topic brought with it a huge variety of content from my colleagues. While I decided to look at the issues of freedom of speech online, other posts concentrated on topics such as privacy and public shaming and I was blown away by the creativity that allowed me to delve deeper into the ethical problems surrounding social media.* Lucy considered whether or not potential employers have the right to spy Via AdLibbing. Continue reading →

Reflection: Ethical Issues Online

This week I decided to try and cover a much more controversial topic. I tried to cover the question from a much closer look at one particular issue as opposed to trying to touch on as many issues about the question as I could. Most people seemed to write about the ethics of companies spying on their customers and collecting their data. This seems to be addressing the same problem that I addressed but from a different angle; the great amount of spying that can happen online. Continue reading →

Final thoughts on the ethics involved in the use of social media

Source I was amazed by the vast amount of ethical issues which were covered in topic four’s discussion, so much so that I decided to gather all the ideas that we, as a group, explored in the diagram below. A summary of all the ethical issues which have been explored by my fellow bloggers and myself in the last fortnight. I chose to focus on a specific area involving online privacy: whether or not our potential employer has the right to spy on us. Continue reading →

Revisiting: Privacy versus Security in Social Media

Privacy is an important concept to me. It’s something I’ve been aware of since an early age, the idea that I should be entitled to be able to expect a degree of privacy from my parents. They always said they’d never snoop through my things – they always instead asked that I talk to them about any […] The post Revisiting: Privacy versus Security in Social Media appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

A review of the ethical problem of privacy

http://onlineprivacywatch.com/privacy-101   Since writing my own post last week about the ethical issues of privacy in employment, I have been constantly reviewing my social media, and every time I go to tweet or post something – I think to myself “could this be scrutinised by future employers?” Learning how the majority of employers use social media to review candidates before hiring certainly has made me wary about how I act online. Continue reading →

Looking back at Topic 4

This week’s discussion of social media ethics has raised some very important issues about morality and the place of higher powers to intervene. The general consensus appears to be that the situation is far too complex to be able to adopt a firm, stationary position. Many of the other bloggers have been re-evaluating their views throughout this topic.   I found Georgina’s post this fortnight to be very thorough and original in its examples. Continue reading →

My take on the Online Privacy Debate

Looking into the online privacy debate has brought up some brilliant quotes that sum the situation up wonderfully, like the one in the header image (source). Here are another couple for your viewing pleasure, that will definitely give you pause for thought. Source Source This quote also pointed me to this article, which doesn’t pull any punches when pointing out that privacy is non-existent these days. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Topic 4

  Well this has been a fascinating couple of weeks with UOSM2033. Topic 4 has definitely been my favourite so far. My blog post was on the ethics of public shaming, as an individual who does not like to be centre of attention the idea of public shaming is particularly terrifying to me, so in a way I think I wanted to raise awareness about how damaging it can be. I believe I got my message across but I think a different medium may have been more effective, perhaps a vlog or PowToon. Continue reading →

Topic 4 Reflection

This week’s topic revolved around ethics in social media and internet use itself. For a lot of students in this module, one of the things that came to mind was Justine Sacco’s tweet that gave her worldwide notoriety. This tweet gained traction across the internet for it being ludicrously racist. As a result, the whole internet criticized her for posting something so racist and called for her employer to fire her. Continue reading →

Tangible Progress in Topic 4?

Improvements As I am given formal feedback on my blogs, I thought I’d see if I addressed these in this weeks edition. Here are a few points I have been given in criticism of my previous blogs: Poor grammar, No Links to Images, Improved structure of blog, No clear ending to blog. I obviously tried to address these, with proof reading of my blog to check for grammactical errors. I linked my images and used licence free images. Continue reading →

An Ethical Issue: Should Parents Spy On Their Kids?

With the social network spring up among young people, children prefer to share what they do or think on the social media instead of telling parents which also triggers a series of ethical issues. One of them is parents spy on their children’s online speech for controlling every move of their children. But it is correct? Should online behaviors of children need be spied? An important reason why some people think children should be spied is for protecting their children. Continue reading →

Should parents spy on their kids?

There is a large compromise that needs to be made between parents and their kids as living in the modern world has its problems. There are so many scare stories of the horrors of the internet with children meeting with strangers and the posting of information online that it can be a struggle for parents to keep on top of what their child is up to. Many people feel that the best way to solve these problems is through using spying software to check on what exactly their child is up to. Continue reading →

The ethics of digital piracy

In this blog I am going to highlight the ethics of sites that host other users’ content; focussing specifically on MegaUpload. In 2012 the owner’s were taken to court and their site was brought down to due to violating privacy laws. Megaupload employs a comprehensive take down method to identify and remove child pornography, but does not employ a similar method in regards to copyright infringement. Continue reading →

Using and Posting on the Internet with Caution

As mentioned in previous posts, the amount of impact the internet has on our lives is enormous. Every little thing you do, be it a post or a something you search for, plays an important role in how you use the internet. This is because your employer can spy on you in many different ways. Your employer is capable of checking your searches within the company computer you are using and can perform monitor searches. Continue reading →