WA05 - Ethical Case Study Blog Post

In this assignment write a blog post taking a position on the moral decision you identified in the case study that you analyzed in WA04 - Ethical Case Analysis.

Assignment

1. Review your analysis of the decision you selected in WA04 and any feedback received from the instructor.
2. Decide how you think you should handle that decision if it was yours to make, and why based on your ethcial analysis that is the right decision.
3. Identify any confounding factors that you think would make it difficult to do the right thing.
4. Write a blog post describing the case study, the decision that is being made, what based on your ethcial analysis you think is the right decision, why you think it is the right decision, and what might make doing the right thing difficult in practice.

Requirements

The following requirements must be met, but are not sufficient to ensure a high quality blog post. The post must:

• be of an appropriate length. You should target 1000 words (~2 single spaced pages). There will be some leeway for slightly longer posts if the writing is concise and compelling.
• be written in the style of the Science + Tech section of The Conversation.
• draw support from multiple sources.
  • You must explicitly use the most relevent ethical lenses from your analysis and the ACM Code of Ethics.
  • Other sources must be reputable and may include news articles, opinion pieces, other blogs, videos, formal academic sources, etc. They may include sources assigned in other courses.
  • When referring to an ethical lens, the ACM Code of Ethics or details from another source, use a contextual link within your post to direct the interested reader to the source. See the posts in the Science + Tech section of The Conversation for examples.
• be grammatically correct.
• include embedded multimedia (e.g. images, audio, video, etc.) only as it is directly related to the topic and enhances the reader’s experience. Any embedded content must be used in a way that is compliant with its copyright and/or license.
• be compliant with the AI Use policy in the Syllabus.

In addition, you should consider explicitly licensing your content using a Creative Commons License so that others know how they may and may not use your work.

Quality Criteria

Affirmative answers to the following questions will be indicative of high quality posts.

• Will your computer science peers, potential employers, future co-workers and reasonably tech literate internet strangers:
  • find the title and opening engaging, without being clickbaity?
  • find the writing in your post to be accessible, interesting and engaging?
  • undestand the important aspects of the case study you are using?
  • understand the decision that is being made and who is making it?
  • agree that the reasoning you used to arrive at the right decision is thorough, even if they happen to disagree with that decision?

Resources

• Refer to WA01 for general advice on writing Blog posts.
• Refer to WA03 for advice on using AI for revision.

Submission

1. Add your post to your public facing blog.
2. Create a COMP492 folder in your Dickinson WiD Repository on GitHub.
3. Place a PDF of your post named WA05-BlogPost.pdf in your COMP492 folder.
4. If you used AI for revision, place a PDF of your “pre-AI” version named WA05-BlogPost-PreAI.pdf in your COMP492 folder.
5. Ensure that the link to your public-facing blog on your course page is working.

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