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Unit 3: Ethical Issues in Communication
Digital drop box or send via e-mail
Required Reading: Lannon, Chapter 5, Chapter 10, plus online readings
Required Writing: Review five websites that discuss products or procedures that could be ethically problematic (examples: diet pills, steroids for muscle mass increase, mail-order brides, get-rich-quick schemes (Nigerian "Advance Fee" Scam, etc.). Make a bullet list of the ethics issues contained in each one.
Discussion Board Participation.
Grammar Exercises (below) -- Optional, unless specifically indicated by professor
Required Online Reading.
Hurricane Relief Scams: Katrina Scams Move Online RedHerring.com
Diet Pills: CLA: The Miracle Weight Loss Pill? WebMD.com
Muscle-Building Steroids: De-Criminalize Anabolic Steroids Bodybuilding.com
Internet Web Mail Frauds: Nigerian Scams crimes-of-persuasion.com
Internet Brides: Mail-Order Bride Industry Exploits Women perspective.com
"Humor" Goes Too Far? Rodeo in Salem Gets Unexpected Song Rendition roanoke.com
Kazakhstan Not Amused by Comic: Talk of the Town newyorker.com
A website listing con artists: Topix--Venture Capital topix.net
Details for the Required Writing.
Write down the name and the URL of 5 websites that contain information or discussions of ethically problematic products or procedures. These may be the same as the ones listed above
Write a one-paragraph description of the website, and the product or procedure it is describing.
Your description should include a list of the ethics issues contained in each of the websites. You should find at least 2 ethical issues per website. Please express your opinion in a sentence or two.
Additional Resources:
Velasquez: Business Ethics -- Concepts and Cases.
A critique of Velasquez's Business Ethics
Business Ethics: A Web-Based Primer
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