Information Technology Ethics Assesment

Running head: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS1
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Utilitarianism.......................................................................................................................2
Deontology..........................................................................................................................3
Contract................................................................................................................................4
Virtue...................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................6
References............................................................................................................................7

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS2
Introduction
On the social media platform, both images and hashtags can spread in similar way like
wildfire. Post can easily go viral in comparison to a visceral reaction from different users who
feel the post to be shared. Scale and free nature of the social media platform can move for
soliciting donation and creating awareness by using storytelling (Price & Walker, 2018). On the
social media platform, the campaign can work in much better way considering the viewpoint of
click rates and likes. They can ignore some of the ethical consideration in the favor of slogans.
Most of the time these slogan can only capture the sliver part of the nonprofit story (Yuste et al.,
2017). The common strategy used for capturing attention and cutting through noise is to make
use of social media platform.
The topic chosen for the study is “Ethical Storytelling on Social Media”. The given topic
has been reviewed from the ethical viewpoints like Utilitarianism, Deontology, Contract and
lastly Virtue.
Utilitarianism
This theory is completely based on the abilities of individual to analyze the consequence
of any given action. Considering utilitarian, there is need for greatest benefits for most people
who are ethical right. It mainly two kind of utilitarianism like act utilitarianism and rule
utilitarianism (Price & Walker, 2018). Act utilitarianism aims in completely defining
utilitarianism of a person which benefit most of the people. It is completely regardless of some
personal feelings and social constraints like law. Rule utilitarian focus on benefiting most of the