1. Choose one of the media articles or case studies listed by the lecturer in your Interact 2 subject site.
2. Use the title of the article/case study provided in interact 2 as the title of your essay, so that the lecturer knows which article you are analysing.
3. Undertake further research about your chosen case, to assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay.
You are required to complete the following:
Write an essay:
The word limit for the essay is 1,000 words
Analyse the article/case study from the perspective of at least two different classical ethical theories, one of which must be that of "Just Consequentialism". Present well reasoned arguments for your assessments and recommendations
Identifying a contentious situation in ICT and dissecting the argument(s) about it, you must also now demonstrate the ability to evaluate the elements of the argument by introducing classical ethical principles where appropriate.
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.
Assignment:
To complete this assignment, first you need to choose an article
JOURNAL ARTICLE - Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection
Frank Jackson Ethics Vol. 101, No. 3 (Apr., 1991), pp. 461-482
Step 1. Construct a diagram to map the arguments
You must understand about how to make logical arguments, please read chapter 3 form textbook and teaching materials provided in week 6 (topic 6. Critical thinking and logical arguments) especially section about Philosophical analysis of the case using Rationale on page 242 from the journal article provided with titled: "Improving skill development: an exploratory study comparing a philosophical and an applied ethical analysis technique"
You can use the following rationale online editor or any other software to construct a diagram with three different colour boxes and lines:
First you think about all possible logical arguments about your chosen case study. For example, the following are few possible logical arguments about the example provided in assignment 3 resources folder, entitled: "Foreign & local government surveillance creates privacy issues". Why it is ethically wrong to collect Meta data.
Now you need to work on to differentiate all arguments in support (because)-green colour, oppose (but)-red colour and objection to an objection (however)-orange colour.
Green box: because-Information is stored for long periods of time and is accessible by many people
Red box: but-Google collections' data from unsecured wi-fi networks was not intentional
Orange box: however-Google differentiated between encrypted and unencrypted content