Negative Social Effects (1 Viewer)

[Llyrai]

Has anyone got the Excel textbook? On page 9 where it talks of social and ethical issues for information systems, they put:

Unemployment
Job Deskilling
Loss of Power

What does 'Loss of Power' mean exactly? I'm not so sure.

 

[rishi]

E.g, a buisness is run and there is a manager who runs the place. a new system is implemented that does the managers job... the manager once had power like, creating deadlines, supervision... but now the system does that its similar to deskilling

 

[Llyrai]

Oh thats ambiguity to the max.

 

[pushka]

Another social issue is the lack of human social contact

EG: not going out to shop / bank / post letters etc.

 

[seremify007]

LOL... I always used (from memory) the unemployment/deskilling, copyright infringements/violations (lol) and privacy of data. These topics were always easy to discuss solutions to such as training programs, watchdogs/advocates and data security/authorisation matrix/access rights...

Try not to pick ethical issues which are too self explanatory and don't have much consequences/solutions to think about- because it limits your ability to answer the question fully; especially when it's a scenario where identifying the problems is only one part of the question (even if not specifically mentioned).