Choose one of the following options for your Post #1.
Option #1: Digital Ethics
Examine the four issues with an ethical dimension on pages 16-18 of Digital Enlightenment Forum. Security for the Digital World Within an Ethical Framework. IOS Press, 2016. Choose one that most interests you and do the following:
- Restate the issue in your own words by paraphrasing it. (Please see tips on paraphrasing here.)
- Explain what you think the main ethical problem or dilemma is.
- Provide one real-life example of some emerging or new technology you think this ethical issue/dilemma applies to. Your real-life example should be from a reliable article in a popular technology publication or an article in the UMGC library.
- Explore what you think a possible solution to this ethical issue in your emerging or new technology could be.
- Use two quotes from any of your resources to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
- Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
Option #2: Disclosive Computer Ethics
After reading Philip Brey’s article “Disclosive Computer Ethics” in the Learning Materials, please do the following:
- Explain how Brey defines disclosive computer ethics and value-sensitive design.
- Discuss why Brey thinks the relationship between disclosive computer ethics and value-sensitive design is important.
After reading Philip Brey’s article “Disclosive Computer Ethics” in the Learning Materials, please do the following:
- Explain how Brey defines disclosive computer ethics and value-sensitive design.
- Discuss why Brey thinks the relationship between disclosive computer ethics and value-sensitive design is important.
- Provide one real-life example of some emerging or new technology you think either does have or does not have a value-sensitive design. Your real-life example should be from a reliable article in a popular technology publication or an article in the UMGC library.
- If you think your example does not have a value-sensitive design, explore and suggest a change that could make it have a better value-sensitive design.
- If you think your example does have a value-sensitive design, explain what specific evidence you see that suggests it does.
- Use two quotes from any of your resources to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
- Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
Examples of popular technology publications that can be used for this question include:
- Wired Magazine
- MIT Technology Review
- Tech Briefs
- GeekTime
- ComputerWorld
- Innovation & Tech Today
- Digit Magazine
- Trotons Tech Magazine
Option #3: Design for Privacy
After reading the “Improving privacy choice through design” by Terpstra, Schouten and Leenes, please do the following:
- Summarize why the authors think reflective thinking is an important aspect of making decisions related to digital technology and privacy. (Please see tips on summarizing here.)
- Describe what the authors mean when they propose that friction be introduced into technology interfaces.
- Choose an app or program you have recently installed on your phone or computer and explain how the programmers could tweak the installation process or the way the app or program works to encourage more reflective thinking about personal privacy by the user.
- Finally, do you think that the solution proposed in this article would help personal data be used in more ethical ways by big corporations? Why or why not?
- Use two quotes from any of your resources to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
- Provide references for all sources in MLA format.