Task
Your lecturer will place several links in Interact to a number of relevant articles and/or case studies. These will be available to you just after your second assignment has been submitted.
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 ± 10%. Headings, citations and references do not count towards the word limit, but quotations do.
• Analyse the article/case study from the perspective of at least two different classical ethical theories, one of which must be that of “Deontological”. Present well reasoned arguments for your assessments and recommendations.
• Write an overall conclusion that justifies your recommendations made in your essay.
• Include a Reference list at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations.
Rationale
This assessment extends the skills practiced in Assessment item 1 and 2, to help you to achieve all the learning objectives.
In addition to 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.
Since Assessment item 1 and 2, your knowledge will have grown, and you will now realise that almost all ICT ethical dilemmas can be classified under one of the main ICT ethical issues that are discussed in this subject; for instance, surveillance is a sub-issue of privacy, harmful software is a sub-issue of ICT professionalism, and piracy is a sub-issue of intellectual property.
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;
• 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);and,
• apply proper academic referencing
how you can choices the subject
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/search?q=automation+jobs
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
https://slashdot.org/
Assignment Topic Links
! Please select topic areas from the links below or provide me a topic you would like to do your assignment 2 on.
Chcekout news sites below for additional ideas…
SOME OF THESE TOPICS ARE OLD SO CHECK UP TO DATE ARTICLES
http://www.wired.com/
http://slashdot.org/stories
http://www.smh.com.au/technology
Search Slashdot.org for ethical issues
http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=ethics
Search SMH for ethical issues
http://www.smh.com.au/execute_search.html?text=ethics&ss=Technology
Search NYT for ethical issues
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/ethics/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/relevance/technology/
Ethical Issues in ICT
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Internet is world’s ‘greatest spying machine’: Assange
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/internet-is-worlds-greatest-spying-machine-assange-20110316-1bwoz.html
Every click you take, they’ll be watching you
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/iphone/every-click-you-take-theyll-be-watching-you-20100917-15gbx.html
Fingerprint scanners concern privacy watchdog
http://www.news.com.au/technology/privacy-watchdog-warns-of-fingerprint-scanners/story-e6frfro0-1225889736646
Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe
Czech authority halts Google Street View data collection
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/czech-authority-halts-google-street-view-data-collection-20100915-15bkm.html
Privacy breach worries Google users
http://www.mynorthwest.com/category/local_news_articles/20100915/Privacy-breach-worries-Google-users/
Google CEO: Ich bin ein Berliner und ein Frankfurter und ein Hamburger. And, Potsdam to the rest of you
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46663&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#
Web of Lies
http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=483940&Itemid=30
Google is watching you
http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xitem=114806&CtNode=426
Facebook Tells People Where You Are
http://www.jabberlounge.com/facebook-tells-people-where-you-are/221953/
The facial recognition software that could identify your photo online
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/world/496664/the-facial-recognition-software-that-could-identify-your-photo-online.html
Swiss Top Court on Anti-P2P: Collecting IP Addresses is Invasion of Privacy (ALSO UNDER IP)
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/90602/swiss-top-court-on-anti-p2p-collecting-ip-addresses-is-invasion-of-privacy/
Law proposed against uploading violent images on the internet
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/law-proposed-against-uploading-violent–images-on-the-internet-20110316-1bwye.html
Watson the supercomputer put to work in health insurance
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/watson-the-supercomputer-put-to-work-in-health-insurance-20110913-1k6k9.html#ixzz1XtTqsJA7
SBS warns of digital ‘ghettos’ as a result of the NBN
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/sbs-warns-of-digital-ghettos-as-a-result-of-the-nbn-20110309-1bnso.html
Curbs on war robots urged
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/curbs-on-war-robots-urged-20100917-15g98.html
Who needs writers when an algorithm can do the job
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/who-needs-writers-when-an-algorithm-can-do-the-job-20110912-1k5y3.html#ixzz1XtTxL47L
Swiss Top Court on Anti-P2P: Collecting IP Addresses is Invasion of Privacy
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/90602/swiss-top-court-on-anti-p2p-collecting-ip-addresses-is-invasion-of-privacy/
Cor blimey! British ISPs must fund P2P copyright crackdown
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/should-isps-pay-for-p2p-warning-letters-uk-says-yes.ars
Huge Selection of Articles on Wikileaks
http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&biw=1094&bih=743&q=wikileaks&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wn&fp=53d07893cd0ed68f
‘Internet censorship is trade barrier’, says Google exec
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/google_pressure_on_censorship/
Wiki Leaks
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/06/wiki_pentagon/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/07/wikileaks_arrest/
