Week 7: CI 4311W
In this weeks reading I found a quote in the Laudon article that stuck out to me. It said “we should expect organizations and individuals to make mistakes, to do the wrong thing at the wrong time…why? Because so many ethical situations involving IT are different…offering new opportunities for both right and wrong action, and calculating consequences can be so difficult” (Laudon pg.39). I found this quote to be true because in society we are still trying figure out the ethics that go into the use of technology. There are so many different situations that go into how we handle technology and I believe it is true that in order to learn how to use it properly. We are going to make mistakes but we learn from them. If we didn’t make mistakes, we wouldn’t know how to handle situations on our own in the future.
As we try our best to handle these situations ethically, we also have to keep in mind that “machines will join humans as active participants in society” (Bynum pg.13). As we hit send, and scroll through our messages we should be mindful that technology is forming our culture in a new and different way. How we interact and talk with each other, and producing and sharing information is developing in new ways. We should be careful of how much trust we put into the sites we post to and the even the content we are reading.
Overall, throughout the semester I have learned more about the impacts of how using technology in a nonethical way can do. For example, cyber bulling can do harm to many people over the internet. How hurtful information, words, and harmful intent of posting wrong information can be so easy to post one things but can do so much harm to so many people. This is because the internet can reach almost anyone, which is why it is important to know how to properly us technology.
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