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This week topics of ethical issues raised by social media
with regards to educational and business use has been extremely interesting.
For me the most exciting part was trying to distinguish
between these two lines. Business often want to educate their customers in a
business environment too try and encourage users to buy their products. In some
cases they need to educate the user in order to increase the chance of a
purchase of a product or service.
For the first time in this module I struggled to think of an
ethical issue of social media within education. Thank you for the comments
which kindly gave me some guidance of the sort of examples required.
As always, different members of the module each took a
different approach on the title. The general feel that I got from reading
others blog posts. Is that it is becoming increasingly apparent that some sort
of guidelines/laws need to be put in place for both business and educational
communities with regards to social media. By having these it will hopefully
reduce the number of ethically unacceptable incidences. For example it is not
acceptable, as discussed in depth, for a head of PR to tweet racist comments,
but nor is it acceptable to tweet savage unnecessary abuse in response. As
discussed in a previous blog post just because you’re on twitter doesn’t mean
you can say what you want.
On the other hand many people discussed whether a one size
fits all policy will work or not, the chances are that it will not, mainly due
to the variety of users/points of views on social networks.
In my opinion there is always going to be a divide on what
is considered a joke and what is abuse. This is more or less dependent on who is
involved, any negative feedback I receive is always taken with a pinch of salt,
and I never take it personally. But other people/organisations have global
reputations to maintain and so taking abusive comments on the chin isn’t always
an option.
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