Consider each of the following broad categories of societal
change: Privacy Safety Globalization Connectivity (keeping in touch
with people) Permanence of historical information Discuss whether
availability of data has had a positive or negative impact on each
aspect of society and, if negative, how these consequences can be
minimized. You can use any Web 2.0 tool to create your
presentation.
Slide 3
An employee tweets a disrespectful, racist and hateful tweet on
Twitter about a co-worker. The co-worker is told by other
co-workers about the tweet and was given a print-off of the tweet.
This co-worker goes to the companys HR office and demands this
employee be reprimanded or better yet, fired.
Slide 4
The co-worker that the tweet was about definitely had the right
to bring it to his supervisors attention if he/she thought his/her
life was in danger or if the employee is publicly racist and this
could spill over into the work environment.
Slide 5
If the co-worker did not do anything prior to the tweet to lead
the employee to tweet this nature of a message, then there would be
no fault. If he/she did do something prior, it still would not
justify a GLOBAL and PUBLIC disrespectful, racist or hateful
message.
Slide 6
The same employee creates a Hate group on Facebook about this
co-worker.
Slide 7
Other people who liked you before may not want to associate
with you since you are posting hateful and discriminatory comments
online about coworkers. They may wonder when you are going to post
something about them.
Slide 8
Privacy A tweet is not private. If the employee used the name
or the Twitter name of the co-worker, that would be worse. Safety
If the co-worker felt he/she was in danger due to the nature of the
message, that would be a justified complaint to management;
harrassment Globalization Tweets may be global; Twitter is a public
social network Connectivity (keeping in touch with people) If the
employee has a lot of followers and those followers are from the
same company, that would complicate the matter worse. Permanence of
historical information Tweets are archived. They can be brought
back and read at any time.