Applying Ethical Theory Value: 20% Due date: 07-May-2017 Return date: 29-May-2017 Length: 1200-1300 words Submission method options Alternative submission method 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 1200-1300 words. Headings, citations and references do not count towards the word limit, but quotations do. • Analyse the article/case study from the perspective of four classical ethical theories including utilitarianism, deontology, virtue and contract. 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. Online submission via Turnitin is required for this assignment. Details will be provided by your subject lecturer. 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. My assessment must have the following questions I am sending sample assessment My assessment need some description and the following questions Fallow the sample assessment before u do. One important requirement for the assignment 3 was the application of the four ethical theories to the ethical issue you have identified. You have to have a good grasp of the four theories to apply them so please watch the following videos to get you on the way, in addition review week 2-3 of the subject. This knowledge will prove to be very useful in the final exam in part A where you have to apply ALL of them to a case study. Utilitarian theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a739VjqdSI Deontological theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bIys6JoEDw Virtue theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvtOWEXDIQ Contract theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Co6pNvd9mc You are not forced to select any topics from the ideas placed in the folder; you can select any material which encompasses an ethical impact of technology. You should construct the assignment in two parts, first come up with DET sheet, which we briefly covered on week 2-3 Assignment 1 and then write ~1300 word essay on it. Doing ethics technique 1. What is going on? 2. What are the facts? 3. What are the issues? 4. Who is affected? This leads to ETHICS ANALYSIS: 5. What are the ethical issues and implications? 6. What can be done about it? 7. What options are there? 8. Which option is best – and why?