Case Study Analysis of Ethical Issues Related to Technology

• Explain how to evaluate information produced from technology.

• Summarize case studies related to information produced from technology.

• Analyze ethical issues related to information produced from technology.

A case study is used to help you participate in real-life analysis and communication. A case study is a learning tool that provides you with the nature and scope of the problem and prepares you to analyze and discuss the implications of the study. In this Assignment, you will learn how to write a case study analysis for a case study related to ethical issues of new and emerging technologies.

Begin by reviewing “How to Write a Case Study Analysis,” available in the Writing Center. Then select one of the following case studies and download it from the Library.

Shelby, D., & Senske, N. (2018). Digital provenance and material metadata: Attribution and co-authorship in the age of artificial intelligence. International Journal of Architectural Computing, 16(4), 271–280.

Padgett, B. L., & Rolston, C. (2014). Crowd funding: A case study at the intersection of social media and business ethics. Journal Of The International Academy For Case Studies, 20(3), 61–66.

Charlebois, K., Palmour, N., & Knoppers, B. (2016). The adoption of cloud computing in the field of genomics research: The influence of ethical and legal issues. Plos One, 11(10), e0164347.

Tempini, N. (2015). Governing PatientsLikeMe: Information production and research through an open, distributed, and data-based social media network. Information Society, 31(2), 193–211.

Wheeler, J. (2018). Mining the first 100 days: Human and data ethics in Twitter research. Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communications, Special Issue, 6, 1–23.

Write a case study analysis explaining the ethical issues related to the study. Your case study analysis should be a minimum of 1,500 words, written in an appropriate format. 

1. Follow the “How to Write a Case Study Analysis” provided in the link. Include:

a. Use one of the suggested tools to perform your analysis and show the diagram or provide a complete explanation of how the tool was used in your analysis.

i. SWOTT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Technology)

ii. Fishbone (Ishikawa) diagram — Cause and effect tool to help determine the major issue in a case study and develop a problem statement

iii. Flowchart diagram — Process diagram to visually display a process and show where it is breaking down

iv. Any other analysis tool of your choice

b. Identification of major issues

c. Identification of alternative courses of action

d. Recommend a course of action.

e. Justify your course of action, citing sources to support your recommendation.

 

2. Additional guidelines

a. Only provide a brief paraphrase and summary of the case to provide context. Use the case study to answer key questions and identify key 
issues. Base analysis and recommendations on course material and relevant outside research.

b. Begin with a holistic statement that will be supported with detail in following parts of your analysis.

c. Do not assume the reader knows anything about your case. Provide detail required to help the reader understand.

d. Use proper citation throughout the paper.The paper should be formatted in APA 6th edition style and should be a minimum of 1,500 words. Be sure to include both in-text citations and references for all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. For more information on APA style formatting, go to Academic Writer, formerly APA Style Central, under the Academic Tools area of this course.