Category: Communications

COM 449 Module Two Journal Guidelines and Rubric
Overview:
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” In this journal, you will reflect on the idea of personal privacy in the digital age and what you believe the general public and organizations should have the right to protect.
Prompt:
As a professional communicator, you may need to make decisions about data-collection and sharing practices that, while legal, push the boundaries of professional and personal ethics. Answer the questions below using a journal response format, and base your answers on both what you’ve learned about privacy from this module and your own thoughts and opinions. Cite any evidence you use to support your response according to APA style.
This module’s resources:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/
https://www.itgovernanceusa.com/data-breach-notification-laws
https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/consumer-transactions/drone-laws-by-state.html
https://www.fpri.org/article/2017/04/framework-ethical-decision-making/
https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
https://www.prsa.org/about/prsa-code-of-ethics
https://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/harvard__law_review.htm
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
* Right to Privacy: Do we have the right to be alone and have privacy? Why or why not?
* Channels: Should expectations of personal privacy vary from channel to channel? In your answer, compare your expectation of privacy in the following situations:
* Handwriting an entry into a personal journal at home versus writing a social media post that would be sent to a dozen friends (considering the implications if your post were to go viral)
* Writing a letter to a friend from your personal email account versus using your work email account
* Sending a text message to a family member from a work cell phone versus your personal cell phone
* Access: Do your expectations of personal privacy change based on the time or place, audience, or channel? If so, how do your expectations vary, and why? If your expectations don’t vary, why not?
* Ethical Considerations: If you were faced with a decision that involved legally disrupting someone’s privacy, how would you approach making that decision? What considerations would you need to take into account, and why? How would social media impact your considerations?
What to Submit:
Submit this assignment as a 500- to 750-word Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

COM 449 Module Two Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric
Overview:
At this point in the course, you have learned about legal privacy protections, such as the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as the impact of new technologies on privacy. In this assignment, you will analyze how judicial and legislative branches of government must reevaluate the level of privacy citizens and businesses can expect and should be given when faced with new technologies and channels. You will also analyze how these decisions might impact private and professional communication.
Prompt:
Imagine you work as the communication director for a large conglomerate. A number of privacy-related issues have been in the news recently, and your executive team has requested you provide information on three areas of privacy concerns at the next leadership meeting.
For this assignment, select one of the three technologies listed below. You will then discuss the related privacy issues, legal and illegal uses or actions, ethical issues, and social media implications associated with the technology.
Technologies With Privacy Concerns
* Cell phone location data
* Drone data collection and surveillance
* Personal data stored by businesses
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
* Privacy Issues: Identify the ways your chosen technology could violate the privacy of individuals or businesses, using course resources to support your response.
* Legal and Illegal Use or Actions: Identify legal and illegal uses related to your chosen technology. Justify your examples using evidence from the course or other external resources to support your response.
* Ethical Issues: Identify key ethical issues related to your chosen technology. Explain why your identified issues present ethical concerns, using course resources to support your response.
* Implications for Communication: Discuss how your selected technology impacts or could impact the field of communication by examining general organizational and professional use cases and the legal and ethical considerations for each use case.
What to Submit:
Submit this assignment as a 500- to 750-word Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Course resources for this week:
( use any of them that back these claims up and use your own if not enough )
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/
https://www.itgovernanceusa.com/data-breach-notification-laws
https://www.findlaw.com/consumer/consumer-transactions/drone-laws-by-state.html
https://www.fpri.org/article/2017/04/framework-ethical-decision-making/
https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
https://www.prsa.org/about/prsa-code-of-ethics
https://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/harvard__law_review.htm

As you’ve been learning about supply and demand, I hope that you’ve been seeing examples of how the model is relevant in our lives.
For this discussion, you task is to find an example of something happening in the news and explain how this event will impact either the supply or demand for a good/service. Specifically, please do the following for this discussion:
1. Post a link to an article that is describing an event that will cause the supply or demand of an item to change.
2. Summarize the article for the class. What has happened?
3. Explain to the class how either the supply or demand will change. Will it increase or decrease? What will happen to the price of the good? What will happen to the equilibrium quantity?
4. Respond to a classmate’s post. Do you agree with their prediction? Explain.

Unit 3 DB: Learning
Unit 3 DB: LearningAs we are discovering in this unit, we incorporate learning concepts into our lives on a daily basis, which helps us survive as well as achieve many developmental milestones. In addition, the ability to learn enables us to accomplish other goals and achievements. For this discussion, describe how you would apply observational learning and operant conditioning to develop good work and study habits. Be sure to detail the concepts and include a few examples for each. Remember to begin including in-text citations for all paraphrased information as well as include an APA formatted reference list for all sources used in the posts. Consult the Post University APA Style Quick Sheets guide for assistance.
In response to your peers, provide additional factual (paraphrased from a third party) information, and discuss observations and/or alternative perspectives. Include some feedback regarding content and not presentation style.
Respond to at least two other posts, and be sure to use a congenial and supportive tone.

Unit 3 DB: Learning
Unit 3 DB: LearningAs we are discovering in this unit, we incorporate learning concepts into our lives on a daily basis, which helps us survive as well as achieve many developmental milestones. In addition, the ability to learn enables us to accomplish other goals and achievements. For this discussion, describe how you would apply observational learning and operant conditioning to develop good work and study habits. Be sure to detail the concepts and include a few examples for each. Remember to begin including in-text citations for all paraphrased information as well as include an APA formatted reference list for all sources used in the posts. Consult the Post University APA Style Quick Sheets guide for assistance.
In response to your peers, provide additional factual (paraphrased from a third party) information, and discuss observations and/or alternative perspectives. Include some feedback regarding content and not presentation style.
Respond to at least two other posts, and be sure to use a congenial and supportive tone.

Follow the instructions and let me know if you have any questions. There is a youtube video link in attached file, it is some instuctions about assignment. Outline is due Sep 8 and essay due Sep 22.
Thank you!

Do this in a different doc
in the first doc discussion prompt this assignment will kick off Monday’s discussion about ethical issues in research. There are 2 parts to this prompt that you must complete to receive full credit.
1) Social scientific research often deals with human subjects. Please list 2 ethical issues that may arise when conducting research on humans.
2) Find an article that summarizes an unethical study from the past and paste the link in the textbox. Be prepared to explain the study in class. (Please avoid The Stanford Prison Experiment & The Tuskegee Experiment since these are the most well-known. I will briefly summarize them in class for anyone who is not familiar.)
the second one types of stories
In this assignment we are returning to our news sources to find different types of stories referenced on page 7 Download page 7 in the text. You should identify stories that fit the following three categories:
–Hard news
–Feature story (usually about a person or issue or phenomenon)
–Explanatory
You should submit a link to the story with a headline (a headline is similar to a title; it’s at the top usually in bold letters) of the story, the name of the publication (New York Times, Washington Post, etc.), the writer, date of publication, and a sentence explaining why it fits the category.
Here (below in bold) is what your response should look like.
EXAMPLE
1. Hard news — “Jerome Powell warns that war on inflation may be painful” … New York Times, Jenna Smialek, Aug. 26. This is breaking news reporting on the Federal Reserve chair expressing in a speech that the battle against inflation will be more challenging than people think. Whenever the Federal Reserve chair speaks about the economy, it’s big news and often makes the stock market move one way or another.
2. Explanatory — “The crypto world can’t wait for the merge” … New York Times, David Jaffe-Bellany, Aug. 26. This story explains the consequences and risks associated with the upcoming “Merge,” a long-awaited software update to the popular cryptocurrency, Ethereum.
3. Feature — “Social Media star of a changed Middle East” … New York Times, Patrick Kingsley, Aug. 26. This is a profile on Palastinian born Nuseir Yassin, a business owner and social media star in the Middle East whose move to Dubai is a product of the UAE’s forged 2020 diplomatic relationship with Israel, where he was raised.
This will be graded for content and writing style. By writing style, I mean simply that it should be written cleanly, with no mistakes in grammar, spelling, etc., or issues with clarity. Content should be precise and, as always in this class, ACCURATE. This should be submitted on Canvas as a word file upload.

Goal: Identify and review existing solutions to the problem you are focusing on. Your audience is potential funders/supporters of solutions.
Required content:
Concisely review the specific causes and consequences of the problem that your group intends to focus on. Reference Memos #1 and #2. Make sure to incorporate any feedback on your first two memos from your instructors.
Review at least two categories of existing solutions (reviewing more may lead to a stronger memo). For each category:
Provide a concise description of what the solution aims to do, how it works, who it involves and how it is funded. Clearly state whether this type of solution targets the causes or consequences of your target problem.
Describe one specific example and provide a citation of the website for this solution (or a news article documenting this solution).
Analyze the strengths of this type of solution. Use at least one course concept in your analysis to explain how this solution is potentially successful.
Analyze the weaknesses of this type of solution. Use at least one course concept in your analysis to explain how this solution is potentially limited/ineffective.
Conclude with a summary of the “opportunity space.” Based on your review of the categories of solutions in the previous sections, which aspects of the problem are least well addressed by existing solutions? Where are the most promising opportunities for your original solution? Answer these questions persuasively in order to convince the reader that your potential solution will address a need that is unmet by existing solutions.
Requirements and Format:
This paper should be 750-1000 words, double-spaced, with 1″ margins and Times New Roman 12-point font.
It should read like a cohesive persuasive document with introduction and conclusion sections.
Your title page should have your name on it.
Please use APA style for citations and references.
Grading criteria
Coverage of the required content
Comprehensiveness of your solution review and description of the “opportunity space”
Persuasiveness of your arguments
Quality of your writing
Papers that use AI (e.g., Chat-GPT) will receive a 0.

Chapter 2:
Watch the following video Part 1: Legacies of Social Change
Describe with detail the Settlement House movement. Fully summarize who Jane Addams was and fully outline and describe her work. List her key interventions. What was her philosophy of change? Was it the person or the environment? Explain your answer with detail.
Describe in detail the Charity Organization Societies. Watch the following video: Who was Mary Richmond? What specific contributions did she provide for Social Work and the COS? What was the philosophy of change for the COS? Was it the environment or the individual? Fully explain your answer.
Watch the video explaining the history of social security: How the Great Depression created social security, watch this video entitled How Social Security Works and review the page “10 Common Questions About Social Security
Explain why Social Security was created.
Describe Social Security and how it works.
List the specific main programs under it and briefly explain them.
Identify how a person earns social security and who is eligible.
Not everyone receives it, why? Explain this.
How significant is it for social workers to know the guidelines for this program for clients?
Define public assistance programs from the textbook. List these programs identified in the textbook and give a brief description of each.
Identify what the guidelines are to be eligible for each one (you will need to research the current rates).
How do these programs help overall with the cycle of poverty?
How can a Social Worker benefit clients by knowing the details of these programs?
Please number each question and use bullets for responses !!! I will put link for book please let me know if you can view it asap

Go to the website https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/themes/ and pick one of the themes listed. Watch or read 2-3 short media segments (they have articles, video clips, interviews, etc.) under that theme, then write a 300-400 word response explaining how what you’ve read/seen connects back to the theory of “discourse” and specifically Hall’s idea of race as a discursive category. (For instance, if you were reading about scientific racism, consider how the scientific discourse around race has historically produced “knowledge” in a way that benefits the dominant groups in power.) Make sure to cite Hall and whatever sources you look at on the website.