Exploring ethical issues in technology through narrative

¶ … Ethics of Technology

Writing stories to Explore Issues in the Ethics of Technology

Part 1) ~ 5) is done, and you are only doing the 6) part which is Peer Review Comments and Author Reaction.

After writing the peer review comments after taking a look at whole instructions and reading the paper, please edit and do the Author Reaction portion as well as if you wrote the paper.- So you are kind of doing two people's job as a peer reviewer and also the writer of the paper.

Writing Stories to Explore Issues in the Ethics of Technology

There will be six elements of this assignment as shown below. Each semester we will focus on a specific ethical issue associated with emerging technologies such as virtual worlds, video games, social interaction technologies, and the like. Focus on the issue of the stimulating effect of virtual worlds and video games. Each final story should contain the following elements:

Problem Statement: This explains why the story needs to be written. The problem statement should explain what perceived problem there is according to the definition of a problem provided in the lectures. It should suggest reasons why that problem exists and how this story might address this problem. Typical problems we discussed in class include a lack of awareness of an issue, a lack of awareness of the subtly or complexity of an issue, or a pervasive bias toward only one side of an issue. The problem statement should be something that can be solved or addressed by writing a story and should be in the range of 100 to 200 words.

2) Objectives: This explains what the author is attempting to achieve through the story. This is the linkage between the problem and the story. These are the specific goals that the author will be attempting to achieve in order to address the problem and thus must be achievable units of work when writing the story. While many different stories could potentially be written given a set of objectives, they should all contribute in a similar way to resolution of the problem. The objectives should be in the range of 200 to 400 words.

3) Outline of the Story: This contains the narrative argument and the elements that will be used to construct that narrative argument. Depending on the level of detail the author feels is needed it may range from 100 to 500 words.

4) the Story

5) Analysis of the Story: This analysis explains how the objectives were achieved through the elements of the story. The analysis should be in the range of 200 to 500 words.