How changes in technology impact on the way humans communicate, and the ethical issues that surround these changes.
Since the technology impact has made it’s way into our everyday lives we ask ourselves has this new understanding made it difficult or made it easier? The saying, “if you can’t beat them, join them” echoes loudly into 2018 and even before that when we were all first introduced to the mobile phone. Technology as we know it now has just boomed — your either with it or against it. But being against it may label you as ‘living in the dark ages’. Gone are the days of talking on the rotary phones to now communicating through SMS or even being able to FaceTime and see the person you’re actually calling. As fun as this all seems with the advantages of today’s technology there does seem to be many ethical issues affecting this as well. For one that seems to be an ongoing argument is the posting of our photos to social media — who owns them? Facebook, Instagram and many similar apps all have privacy regulations regarding ‘your’ photos.
As discussed in the following article privacy in social media comes down to who is in control of it. To maintain one’s privacy you need to have the control.
“Privacy can be viewed from the perspective of control. Whether it is control over personal data, the choice to disclose data, the physical presence of others, the number of others present in disclosure, or choosing which person to discuss and share issues with, control is central to maintaining privacy.”
To maintain one’s privacy you need to have the control. But are you? Or does Facebook and/or Instagram now own these rights? We like to think we do but really once an image, a writing is put on the world wide web it’s out there for anyone to copy, change, delete and even edit to their own liking. Solution: Go back to face-to-face conversation and plain simple Kodak brownie cameras (my very first camera) but wait there no longer around due to the technology changes!!!
https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy2.acu.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1080/15228831003770775
Houghton, D., & Joinson, A. (2010). Privacy, Social Network Sites, and Social Relations. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28(1–2), 74–94.
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