{"id":268,"date":"2015-04-22T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/beseated\/?p=268"},"modified":"2015-04-22T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:41:11","slug":"unavoidable-ethical-questions-about-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/2015\/04\/22\/unavoidable-ethical-questions-about-social-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Social Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/research-office.epfl.ch\/files\/content\/sites\/research-office\/files\/ethics%20commissions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Social Networking has some general inescapable ethical concerns such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connecting people can be positive but it can also lead people into forming harmful relationships and connections. Cyber-bulling or trolling is a sad phenomenon and every effort should be made to avoid harassment of other users.<\/li>\n<li>Users have a right to privacy but in general privacy is a troublesome area which social networking sites have yet to come to a uniform decision about. With an image posted online or information users give, do they have a right to control this or is it acceptable for this information willingly given to be exploited freely.<\/li>\n<li>Are Social Networking sites fair? Are they egalitarian? Or are they in fact favouring a certain type of person and behaviour (mainly white, literate and from developed nations).<\/li>\n<li>By giving a user a certain amount of anonymity will they be more direct and harsh about reviewing a venue. Creating distance from face-to-face communication we may be weakening honesty and openness but most important patience and negotiation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"js-reference-string-5\" class=\"selectable\">Scu.edu, (2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scu.edu\/ethics\/publications\/submitted\/social-networking.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Social Networking<\/i><\/a>. [online] Available at: http:\/\/www.scu.edu\/ethics\/publications\/submitted\/social-networking.html [Accessed 22 Apr. 2015].<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Networking has some general inescapable ethical concerns such as: Connecting people can be positive but it can also lead people into forming harmful relationships and connections. Cyber-bulling or trolling is a sad phenomenon and every effort should be made to avoid harassment of other users. Users have a right &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[63,82,140],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","tag-ethics","tag-literature-review","tag-social-networks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}