Use or Misuse of Technology Essay involving article support
12 November 2021
Friday, 19th November 2021 at 11:59pm
2000 words (about three pages)
This assignment requires you to rewrite your earlier essay with the support of the three or more articles which you recently summarized from the literature.
From our recent activity in communication with your partner where you explained the premise of your work, your essay is to be inspired from the following types of questions.
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What is the premise of the essay?
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What is the focus on the technology or data usage?
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What are the benefits and disadvantages of the focus?
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What are the relevant articles?
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How does each article provide evidence to support the argument of the essay?
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What ideas do you have to improve the essay with the Reference-based Support from the articles?
To help guide your thinking for this essay, the following types of questions ought to be covered in your writing.
Motivation
- What is the exact technology (data usage) being discussed?
- Where did the technology come from, to solve what kinds of problems, in what area or field? Examples?
- Who developed it? Who uses it? Where used? Why used?
- What can go RIGHT when used according to an intended design? Examples?
- What can go WRONG when misused, or used as intended by design? Examples?
- Other additions by your informed judgement?
Digging Deeper Using Article Support
- Reiterate: use or misuse of the technology does cause problems for people, for animals, climate, or in another area.
- According to the authors of all summarized articles, what is the proper use of the technology? What else do they say about it?
- Instead, what unfortunate results do these authors claim occur from use or misuse? What else do they claim about the use?
- What do the authors say about the damaging caused by technology? Why is there damage? Who suffers? Examples from articles or from other articles?
- According to the articles, are the long-term problems caused by the design of the technology or its misuse? How? Support your discussion with fact from the articles. Offer other examples to explain to communicate the seriousness of the problems. -What are other unintentional (intentional) repercussions of misuse?
Informed by your articles, How to you conclude?
- Reiterate: There is some kind of problem being created by the use or misuse of the technology. There is some form of suffering.
- How did your articles contribute to the discussion of the technology?
- What do you think can be done prevent this damage, suffering caused by the technology?
- Should laws be made? Should the technology be banned, regulated or used only by a transparent agency?
- What can be done to fix the damage that has been created already? What can be done to end the suffering?
- What Last thoughts for a better world?
To locate this article, you are to use an online search engine such as Google Scholar for a keyword which is highly relevant to your subject area. Keep the reference!
Please feel free to consult with the connected writing Consultant for our course: Kelsey Anderson. You can schedule a visit with Kelsey using https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKbzTEe2S8udQ68VnJXI_MonRcYbYjvjBFoN5RFzeT8/edit?usp=sharing for office hours. This link is also available on the course website.
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First, please familiarize yourself with GitHub. For example, Git Handbook provides a good reference guide. If you require more help, please read all of the relevant GitHub Guides that explain how to use many of the features that GitHub provides. In particular, please make sure that you have read the following GitHub guides: Mastering Markdown, Hello World, and Documenting Your Projects on GitHub. Each of these guides will help you to understand how to use both GitHub and GitHub Classroom.
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You can also watch a video on Markdown Tidbits.