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Assessment item 3 back to top Applying Ethical Theory Value: 20% Due Date: 19-Sep-2018 Return Date: 14-Oct-2018 Length: XXXXXXXXXXwords Submission method options: Alternative submission method Task...

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Applying Ethical Theory

Value:20%Due Date:19-Sep-2018Return Date:14-Oct-2018Length: XXXXXXXXXXwordsSubmission method options:Alternative submission method

Task

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Write an essay according to the following instructions.

Your lecturer will provide few links for relevant articles and/or case studies. These will be available to you just after your second assignment submission date.

  • Choose one of the media articles or case studies listed by the lecturer in your Interact 2 subject site. 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.


  • Undertake further research about your chosen case, to assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay. Analyse the article/case study from the perspective of four classical ethical theories including utilitarianism, deontology, contract, and virtue. Your essay should present well-reasoned arguments for your assessments and recommendations.
  • Write an overall conclusion that justifies your recommendations made in your essay.
  • Include aReferencelist at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations. Theword limitfor the essay is XXXXXXXXXXwords. Headings, citations and references do not count towards the word limit, but quotations do.


NOTE: Please use the template provided in resources section of this subject site.

Rationale

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This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

  • be able to identify ethical issues related to ICT.
  • be able to assess the implications of ethical problems.
  • be able to critically evaluate solutions to ethical problems.
  • be able to apply ethical theories to ethical problems.
  • be able to argue consistently and rationally about the moral issues raised by the adoption and use of ICT.
  • be able to analyse ethical situations using critical thinking techniques.

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.

Marking criteria and standards

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The following marking sheet will be used to assess students' submissions.
Please check that you have met all the criteria before you submit your assignment.

CriteriaStandards
High Distinction (HD)Distinction (DI)Credit (CR)Pass (PS)Fail (FL)
Classical Ethical Theory(Value 60%)Demonstrates an excellent ability at applying ethical theories to the ethical issues.

Demonstrates a good ability at applying ethical theories to the ethical issues.Makes a genuine attempt at applying the ethical theories to the ethical issues. The ethical theories do not link well with the ethical issues.The ethical theories are not properly applied to the ethical issues.
Writing & structure(Value 20%)Language features and structures are used to convey meaning effectively, concisely, unambiguously, and in a tone appropriate to the audience and purpose with no spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors.Well developed skills in expression & presentation of ideas.
Fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document type.
Grammar & spelling accurate.
Good skills in expression & clear presentation of ideas.
Mostly fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document type.
Grammar & spelling contains a few minor errors.
The text contains frequent errors in spelling, grammar, word choice, and structure, lacks clarity, and is not concise, but the meaning is apparent to the reader with some effort.Rudimentary skills in expression & presentation of ideas.
Not all material is relevant &/or is presented in a disorganised manner.
Meaning apparent, but writing style not fluent or well organised.
Grammar & spelling contains many errors.
Conclusion(Value 10%)Superior conclusion that ties the results of the analysis together into a coherent, logically valid & convincing argument.Very high standard conclusion that ties the results of the analysis together into a coherent, logically valid & convincing argument.High standard conclusion that ties the results of the analysis together into a coherent, logically valid & convincing argument.Rudimentary conclusion that provides a convincing argument.Sub-standard (or no) conclusion.
Referencing(Value 10%)Referencing is comprehensive, demonstrates academic integrity, and conforms exactly to APA style conventions.Very good referencing, including reference list and citations.
Evidence of high quality references.
Good referencing, including reference list and citations.
Evidence of good quality references.
Referencing is comprehensive, mostly accurate according to APA style conventions, and demonstrates academic integrity. Some minor errors or omissions in style and formatting choices (e.g. italics, punctuation, etc) don’t impact on the transparency and traceability of the source, or demonstration of academic integrity.Sub-standard (or no) referencing.
Poor quality (or no) references.

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Parul answered on Sep 18 2020
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Assignment
Introduction
Advancing technology and increase consumption of ICT have not only evolved traditional ways of doing business but also revolutionized manner in which the same was conducted. There is huge presence of ICT in all industry domain like hospitality, travel, services etc. There is no denying to the fact that it has been difficult years for the information and technology organisation. With increasing scams of on personal privacy, data security and increasing number of cyber-crimes raising huge number of questions on high dependence on ICT and such devices. It has become very common today that for personal interest of some, security and safety of majority people is been compromised. Furthermore, organisations that thrives on technology aren’t in control with use and gets entangled in several activities where they end up misusing the technology due to negligence of proper regulations. With reference to the facts gathered from “Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cam
idge Analytica in major data
each” (Cadwalladr, C. and Graham-Ha
ison, E., 2018) one of such ICT issues that shook grounds and kept everyone baffled was the Facebook data
each and harvesting scandal of by Cam
idge Analytica that urges the dependence and requirement of ethical requirements in the technology organisations. It is clear to see that there are several ethical issues that needs to be considered with reference to different directions and focal lengths with respect to new generation organisation and other institutes.
Background of Case
One of the most striking realization from the
oadcast and entire communication analysis from the US Presidential elections conducted in 2016 is just how drastically transformed the thought-process and reactions of the majority of people including different channels of media that has consumed for political purpose of extracting data and then targeting the election with people specific actions. One of the most popular and loved social platform Facebook was charged guilty of providing or rather leaking the personal data of more than 50 million users and account details to a political analytics organisation called Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and Cam
idge Analytica. Essentially business model of the organisation deals with providing specific and targeted advertisements to people such that their physic and personal interest are exploited such that it increases the revenue of organisations. Taking reference from “The Cam
idge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be”, (Kilovaty, I., 2018) Cam
idge Analytica intervened and interfered in US presidential campaign such that they could the influence the voter’s ultimate helping Trump to win the 2016 presidential elections. With the help of Facebook, CA were able to reach millions of users and perform several unconscious biases affecting the psychology. After extracting the data, organisation developed personality tests to generate profiles in order to construct extremely specific ads and data that would shadow their judgements. Although, SCL had the received the access to the information in a very legitimate manner...
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