ETHICS for Media Psychology |
Part I: Week 1- Knowing Your Ethical Self (May 4-8)
Questions and CompetenciesEssential question(s): What does it mean to be ethical? What are behavioral ethics? What is the difference between being professional, legal and ethical? Do being professional, legal and ethical support or confound each other? What is your ethical core or brand? How would you explain it to yourself and others in "media psychology" terms?
Essential question, going forward: How do your ethical perspectives evolve as you progress through this course? Competencies Typically, most competencies are addressed in some way. However, each week focuses on some more than others. This week's competencies are identified below: Objectives
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Content and ActivitiesOverview
This is a short week; activities will be adjusted accordingly. You will spend this week on some "warm-up" activities, and familiarizing yourselves with the overall content of the course. You will take an ethics quiz to help you get oriented to ethics on a practical or "behavioral" level. Please get to as many of the viewings and readings as possible. You will do two activities: conduct an ethics inventory and develop a brand. View A note about watching video in this course. Ask your friends and family to watch the video assignments for this class with you. It includes them in your education. Besides, they will find them interesting. Please watch the following:
Read
Browse
Subscribe There are two mail lists to join that consider the rapidly advancing edge of technology:
Visit and join Visit some of the organizations listed below and sign up for a news feed, newsletter or mail list. Try to find one as closely related to your field as possible:
Conduct An Ethics Inventory The purpose of this week's "ethical inventory" activity is to focus our discussion of ethics on ourselves first, before we look at ethics more broadly and objectively. Through our Moodle discussion we will see the diversity of ethical perspectives that are represented intra-personally (within and among our own perspectives), interpersonally (among group members), and sociologically and anthropologically (among groups). Take the following ethical quiz:
Also, if time permits, look at these resources for ethical self-assessment:
Develop a Brand
In addition to reading and viewing this week's materials, and completing the ethics inventory (which you do not turn in), your only writing assignment is to create a brand that describes your perspective as a media psychologist. A brand can be a word or two, like Apple's Think Different, or Watch. It can also be a sentence or phrase. For many years my brand was, Using technology effectively, creatively, wisely and funly. In the more extended version, I add to this: Let's tell stories You will create a brand, which you post in Moodle as the basis of discussion. Instagram, Twitter
As always, please feel free to contribute "an ethical image" to our class Instagram account, or any resources you find to our Twitter feed, #ethics771. Moodle Questions, Postings:
Your contributions to the conversation. Each week make one major posting and respond to three colleagues' postings. |