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Four Corners. There are four corners labelled at different places within the classroom After listening to a statement that I will make, you are to move to the heading you feel best represents your opinion Repeat this process until all questions have been asked. Four Corners.
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Four Corners • There are four corners labelled at different places within the classroom • After listening to a statement that I will make, you are to move to the heading you feel best represents your opinion • Repeat this process until all questions have been asked
Four Corners • Unwanted email is unavoidable, and is an unfortunate cost of having the benefit of the internet. • There are no costs associated with downloading videos, songs, or software off the internet as long as the internet site says it is free. • Plagiarism means that you are not citing academic source that you use to complete your own work. • Hate crime has decreased with the popularity of the internet because perpetrators of such harmful acts can be easily tracked by the authorities. • Restrictions to websites based on age make it difficult to access inappropriate web sites.
BTT 1OE Legal, Social, and Ethical Issues
Agenda • Spam – What is it? • Plagiarism – What limits are there? • Unauthorized Downloads • Inappropriate Sites and Hate Crimes • Closure – So What?
Spam What is Spam? • Unsolicited e-mail • Sent to thousands of recipients, often promoting an electronic sex site or pyramid marketing schemes • Also used to advertise a variety of products/services
Spam Why is spam so popular? • It is an efficient and relatively inexpensive way to advertise online • Can send millions of e-mails with the click of a mouse • Even if a small % read these e-mails, a company can make huge sales
Spam Is the only issue with spam then the inconvenience of deleting your junk folder?
Spam Ethical Issues • Time individuals waste reading and/or deleting spam • Financial scams • Phishing – tricking someone to give confidential information • Threatened the overall integrity of e-mail
Plagiarism What does it mean to “plagiarize?” • to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source • to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source Source: Merriam-Webster
Plagiarism What does this mean to you the student?
Unauthorized Downloads What do you think it means that we are not authorized to download something?
Unauthorized Downloads Music • An implicit agreement between purchaser and the company that sold the CD • Purchasing the right to play the music contained, not the right to distribute that music to others • To break that implicit agreement is unethical • To take advantage of the fact that someone else broke that agreement (by receiving the “goods”) is also unethical
Unauthorized Downloads It’s not only music! • Movies • TV shows • Books • Video Games Would you feel the same if your job was threatened because your employer is going out of business?
Hate Crimes When we are referring to hate crimes, what are we talking about? • Race • Ethnicity • Religion • Sexual Orientation • Bullying
Inappropriate Web Sites What are some of the ethical issues surrounding inappropriate sites? • Age restriction – how is it enforced • Exploitation of minors • Potential criminal activity • Potential sexual predators
Social and Ethical Issues 3-2-1 • Moving into 5 groups you are to do the following: • Find three real life examples of the ethical issue you are assigned • Describe two ways in which they were perpetrated by technology (each case) • Provide one possible solution that might stop this problem from happening in the future Be prepared to share with the class
