Overview
https://plato.stanford.edu/Topic 3: Social Media
To write on this topic, you will need access to Netflix.
After watching The Social Dilemma, write an essay that approaches one or more of the issues raised in the film from a specifically ethical perspective. I emphasize this focus because one could easily write an essay about the issues raised in the film while never discussing anything about ethics. Your essay should be explicitly philosophical; to achieve this focus, you should discuss issues from the film in relation to philosophers/moral theories you have encountered thus far in our course. Obviously, many of the philosophers you have read never heard of computers, let alone Facebook or Google (though of course, contemporary philosophers have), but that doesn’t mean that their ideas cannot be connected to the issues we face today. In addition to discussing specific points from the film, your essay must include reference to at least one reading from our text as well as at least one reference to an article/entry in either The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy or The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, through quotation and/or paraphrase.https://iep.utm.edu/
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