Title: Creating Social Media Law Projects to Sensitize Business Students to Appropriate Digital Conduct
Abstract: Today, traditional business students have grown up with the internet during their entire lives, having used social media for the majority of that time. These platforms promote instantaneous dissemination of thought, oftentimes without filter or reflection, and with potential tragic consequences. The communications world has thus transformed from a pre-Internet era of passive consumer consumption to a participatory forum of real time information clutter, where Millennials fail to distinguish actual news from fake news. Social media has further complicated personal and professional lives. What was once bullying in school or the workplace has turned into a 24/7 harassment tool, with cyberbullying on the rise. What was once hidden youthful indiscretions in a pre-social media world has turned into the need for college students to scrub their internet presence in the hopes of securing a job offer upon graduation. Posting fun work-related pictures online in a work uniform cannot only be misconstrued, they can get you fired. While social media has both a positive and negative impact on society, this article judges neither. Rather, its purpose is to sensitize business students on appropriate and ethical use of the Internet in private and work lives. To do so, the author developed numerous student projects over several years, dating from social media’s early days to present day.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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