BRADBY LINDSAY COM295 Ethics Credibility In Business Communications

Using Facebook as a tool in learning about prospective employees beyond their resumes can be fast and efficient for employers. However, the presence of market failures in such practice has ethical implications.

The research was conducted on over 700,000 Facebook users, which is a good sample size. However, the sample does not state how the users were chosen. Were the users from around the world or concentrated in a specific location? In addition, the manner in which the research was conducted can be said to be unethical. Chapter two of You May Ask Yourself states the three ethical rules when conducting social research: (1) do no harm, (2) informed consent, and (3) voluntary participation. The research conducted on the Facebook users did not follow any of these ethical rules. As stated in the article, Facebook did not get actual consent from the users to interfere with their news feeds. None of the users knew they were part of the research, therefore, it was not voluntary. Facebook claims that while signing up for a Facebook account users agree to a section that states Facebook can use the information they receive about you for internal operations, including

Informed consent is an essential part of the research process. Informed consent allows participants the choice to participate in the study or

Informed consent is a method that was established to protect human participants. Bertha Schrems discusses the importance of informed consent in her article “Informed consent, vulnerability and the risks of group-specific attribution”. Research participants are sometimes threatened by abuse or exploitation and the possibility of harm through research. To

Once a potential candidate agrees to participate in the trial and signs the consent, the research team is responsible for keeping the participant informed during the trial or study. Participants have the right to discontinue participation during any time of the study.

A standard requirement for research is that subjects give their consent to participate. There are issues concerning consent in drug addiction studies because consent must be

At first I agreed wholeheartedly that Facebook sells their clients’ information to businesses and potentially the government itself, after all Google is known to do the same with their search engine. However after I thought and analyzed the language he uses to describe how Facebook uses their “transparency”, I realize that he may very well be overblowing the situation.

Informed consent is the current guiding principle for the ethical conduct in medical research and originated after the 1947 Nuremberg Code and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki (Nguyen et al., 2015). The purpose of the informed consent process is to provide potential research subjects information about the nature of the clinical trial, the risks, benefits, underlying procedures, and alternative treatments (Bloswick & Skowron, 2015). The research team must provide the patient with sufficient information so the participant can fully make an informed, uncoerced choice about whether to begin or continue participation in a clinical trial. This process is an ongoing exchange between the subject and the research team throughout the research study.

6. Informed consent is one of the primary ethical considerations in research involving human participants. Since it’s voluntary, the potential study participant must be given enough time to consider whether or not to participate in the research, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence should be minimized. They should understand everything that’s going on and have a waiver of Rights Prohibited. The consent may not include language through which the participant or their representative is made to waive the participant's legal rights or releases the investigator, the sponsor, the institution or its agents from liability for negligence.

After the researcher has explained the study, participants will be asked if they would like to participate in the study, and will not be forced to participate if they do not wish to. If subjects are willing to participate, informed consent will be given to students to fill out, and will be obtained by the researcher who will have IRB approval (see Appendix A). Students will be given three questionnaires and asked to complete and submit them to the researcher.

Yes, some confounds that researchers did not address is whether individual emotional state can affect a person interaction with the News Feed emotional content. In others words, I believe that it is also highly likely that Facebook is not creating the emotional contagion, but instead it’s a response of each individual tendency. For example, more depressive people would respond to negative posts, whereas as happier people would react to happy

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As

Valid consent rests on three pillars: the absence of coercion or undue influence, providing participants with information relevant to the decision at hand, and ensuring that participants have the capacity to use that information to make an authentic decision on whether to participate”(Palmer, 2015). For this reason, it is apparent that the three pillars were not met prior to starting the experiment. The participants were not given all the information necessary to understand what the study was. The ethical principle of Justice was disregarded as they were no given fair treatment in the decision making process. Facebook and their researchers were the ones pulling the string and manipulating news

Facebook is involved in a serious controversy in the United States. And last but not least they are being accused of nothing less than ideologically manipulate the news that serves its users , all this is happening on the campaign trail, so the whole thing takes on an even greater dimension that already itself has.

Communication is constant, especially in the information age. Savvy professionals know how to communicate quickly, effectively and ethically. The term "ethical communication" has different meanings depending on the context. A shampoo advertiser and a sports team spokesperson may have dissimilar views on what constitutes as ethical communication. Some communication guidelines are only applicable to certain situations, while others could be understood as ethical in one situation and unethical in another. Every aspect of ethical communication should be considered within the boundaries of the issue at hand.