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Assignment: MyClinic Wireframe Project- Global, Economic, Social and Ethical Issues in Computing Frame Questions and Guidelines for Assignments and Projects

This document gives you a brief outline and questions to be addressed in Assignments and Projects. It is intended to be used in addition to the more thorough documents and PowerPoint presentations. It takes the "theoretical collections of ideas" contributed by Prof. Skovira and allows us to apply them to "real world" case studies for examination.

Different issues mean different "Weight" or "Condierations" to each frame. In each assignment you will be expected to offer your informed (ie evidence supported or argued) opinion as to which frame or frame subset takes higher precedence in decision making. This is the most important part of this class, the process of thinking through each frame or "dimension" of a problem or project in the hopes of determining a course of action or solution.

Focal frames

Global, Economic, Social cultural or Local, Ethical Frames or Perspectives, metaphors organizing study & discussion

Subsidiary frames

Legal frame, psychological and political frames

Basic definitions and conceptions for the course

1) Information, Information use & information systems
2) Issues, possible problems, of information use and information systems
3) The social cultural and personal environments
4) Vocabularies and metaphors, communities of practice and meaning, Whats & Hows

The Frames or Perspectives and their major ideas and vocabularies
Social [& Cultural] or the Local Frame

1) Multiples of ...
2) Systems of meaning
3) Symbol systems, vocabularies
4) Social groups
5) Community of practice
6) Categories organizing experience
7) Contexts of communication
8) Ontologies
9) Moral codes
10) paradigms

The Social-cultural frame refers to those multiple "complex meaning systems [which people use] to organize their behavior, to understand themselves and others, and to make sense out of the world in which they live." (Spradley, 1980, p. 5).

Spradley, J. P. (1980). Participant observation. New York: Wadsworth Thomson Learning.

Global Frame

1) International business system
2) International economic system
3) Modernity and traditionalism
4) Integration of technologies & markets
5) Interconnectivity via Internet
6) Free markets & trade
7) Homogenization & hegemony

"...is the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states and technologies...in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before, and in a way that is enabling the world to reach into individuals, corporations and nation-states farther, faster, deeper, cheaper than ever before" (Friedman, 2000, p. 8).

Friedman, T. L. (2000). The Lexus and the olive tree. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Economic Frame

1) Rationality
2) Market
3) Utility
4) Scarce resources
5) Pleasure
6) Cost - benefit analysis
7) Supply - demand
8) Satisfying
9) Self-interest
10) Orders of consequences

"...analyze the decisions people make about how to best maximize human happiness in a world of scarcity" (Flynn, 2005. p. 13).

Flynn, S. M. (2005). Economics for dummies. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Publishing. Heilbroner, R. L. (1999). The worldly philosophers,( 7th Ed). New York: Simon & Schuster.

Ethical Frame

1) In all things, do no harm (non nocere) [do good]
2) Virtue as a habit of good action in moderation
3) Do good for others, as you would have them do good for you
4) The greatest good for the greatest number.

Ethics (an ethical frame) is a formal, systematic, and explicit articulation, a theory, of the moral frame of human behavior. There are three main theories (Greene, 2013, p. 329). Deontological (duty-based) theory or frame: Some acts are obligatory regardless of the situations, results and consequences. Utilitarian (consequentialist) theory or frame: An act is ethical (morally right) that creates the greatest pleasure or happiness for the individual or for the greatest number of individuals. Eudaimonic (virtue or character or value-based) theory or frame: Being virtuous, excellence as a habit, doing good or living well according to one's values (Aristotle says we ought to be moderate in all things) is being ethical; this is Happiness.

Greene, J. (2013). Moral tribes. New York: Penguin books.

Questions to be responded to

Question 1) What is your idea of globalization?

Question 2) What is an idea of "culture"?

Question 3) What are social values? Where do they originate? What is one's "social-cultural context?

Question 4) What might the difference be between "social practices" and "cultural meaning"?

Question 5) What is "ethics" or "morality"/

Question 6) What does "moral good" mean?

Question 7) How might one justify one's actions?

Question 8) Do you think that actions doing good, or doing no harm, are best based on "one's good character", or "Do good for others as you would have them do good for you", or "Do good for the greatest number to the best possible consequence"?

Question 9) What is "economics"? Why is it called the dismal science?

Question 10) In economic analysis, what might the best tool be? The idea of utility, cost - benefit analysis, or scarce resource analysis?

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