1 Choose one of the media articles or case studies listed by the lecturer in Interact.
2 Use the title of the article/case study provided in interact as the title of your essay, so that the lecturer knows which article you are analysing.
3 Undertake further research about your chosen topic, to assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay.
4.Topic must be choose from ACS ethics case studies. You can select any of the case study from this.
acs.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/30964/ACS_Ethics_Case_Studies_v2.1.pdf
Step 1. Construct a diagram using Rationale to map the arguments about a moral claim that you have identified in the article/case study:
- Include all supporting and objecting claims. These claims should include facts collated from your own research, classical ethical theories that support or object to the claim and ACS codes that are in conflict with the claim
- You are expected to 'finish off' the case's arguments, turning it into a valid and properly structured argument.
- You should use information from the article/case study, other sources discovered during your research, and your own reasoned arguments. A balanced and impartial argument is the objective.
- All arguments must obey the Golden Rule, Rabbits Rule, Holding Hands Rule and the Pyramid Rule.
- The main claim/conclusion must be an ethical claim.
Most Important
- Explain how the Golden Rule, Rabbits Rule, Holding Hands Rule and the Pyramid Rule are applied on the diagram.
Step 2. Write an essay, which maps closely to the Rationale diagram that you constructed in Step
Purpose of the essay and the essay must be explained form the diagram.
Step 3. Write an overall conclusion that justifies your recommendations made in your essay.
Step 4. Reference list
- Include a Reference list at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations.
In ICT, the main ethical issues are taken to be:
- ICT professionalism
- Privacy
- Security
- Cyber-crime
- Intellectual property
- Regulation on the internet
- Social inclusion
- Community and identity
- Pervasive and convergent computing.
The assessment item is designed to help you to build skills towards achieving the learning objectives, by requiring you to:
- identify an ICT-related ethical issue from a media article or case study;
- using a critical analysis technique (Rationale), analyse the detailed logical structure of the arguments given in the media article/case study and convert the overall argument into a valid and well-structured argument that supports or refutes an ethical position;
- apply classical ethical theory to the analysis of an ethically questionable situation to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions/decisions made therein;
- derive logical and justifiable conclusions to resolve the ethical issue(s);
- develop structured, coherent and logical arguments to support or refute claims; and
- apply proper academic referencing.