Agenda

Day 29 is the Society discussion day.

Get ready

Please download and read the article Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age, by Richard O. Mason, appearing in MIS Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 1, 1986.

As you read the article, think about the following discussion questions:

This article was published in 1986. Do you think the article’s characterization of the ethical issues in a digital society is still accurate, almost 30 years later? Did the article miss anything that is an issue now?
What do you think are the greatest benefits of living in a society where information is so widely available?
What do you think are the greatest dangers of living in a society where information is so widely available?
What do you think we can do as members of a digital society to help ensure that information is used in a responsible and ethical way?

Save your answers to these questions in a document called Ethical issues responses in your shared Google Drive folder.