Ethics provides a framework for understanding and interpreting right and wrong in society. Ethics are the set of moral principles that guides that person’s behaviour. These morals are shaped by social norms, cultural practices, and religious influences. Ethics reflect beliefs about what is right, what is wrong, what is just, what is unjust, what is good, and what is bad in terms of human behaviour. They are used as a compass to direct how people should behave toward each other and to understand and fulfil their obligations to society and live their lives.
Some philosophers make a distinction between ethics and
morals. But many people use the terms ethics and morals interchangeably when
talking about personal beliefs, actions, or principles. It's common to say “my
ethics prevent me from cheating” or you could use the word morals instead in the
sentence.
How dark patterns trick you online.
Dark patterns are features of interface design, crafted to
trick users into doing things they would not usually do but which benefit the
business in question. Such as when you want to delete your Amazon account it
takes a lot of effort to delete because there is a lot of hassle to even get to
the point that you must chat with an amazon person first and tell them why you
want to delete your account.
Harry Brignull UX specialist coined dark patterns as a
design that makes it easy for you to get into a situation but hard to get out of. For
instance, colour can trick you, when the colour is repeated over and over with
the buttons that you regularly click on changes, then an ad comes on with the
same colour button it can trick you to press on it by accident, or when you see
a spec of dirt on that looks like it's on your screen but when you try to wipe
it away, it's actually pressing on the link and opening up a page you don’t want
to be on. You should always be aware of dark patterns and protect yourself
using VPN protection.
World war 1 propaganda – “The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda. In the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine”.
Propaganda has used media since there were magazines,
newspapers, radios, the internet, and videos to manipulate. Using influencers to
market their goods and using users’ thoughts, emotions, and desires. Edward
Bernays set up the campaign to get women to smoke, and the slogan from Vogue
was “Thin is in”. They used advertising
saying “Reach for a lucky" instead of a sweet” lucky strikes cigarettes, to promote smoking.
He used photographers, magazines, and newspapers to tell the world that thin
people were in fashion. He also recruited medical experts to tell people that
smokes were a healthy alternative for sweets. After that more women were
smoking after World War 1. Usually, women would tend to smoke indoors privately,
so to make women smoke in public he hired a group of women to smoke in the parade
as effective propaganda that became a movement and then had tonnes of women
smoking in public. To get social control they used propaganda and psychology that
gave them control. The social pressure of not fitting in would make you want to
buy something you can’t afford and probably don’t need.
At first sight of this blog i was instantly attracted to the style and colours you used. The style you used made it very easy to read. You also seem to be very well educated on the ideas of these videos, i especially found the "how dark patterns trick you" very interesting and was a useful read as i take in more from reading then watching a video. Overall i cant flaw the blog and i was very impressed by the style you decided to go with
ReplyDeleteHello, after reading this blog I found that it was a very informative read. I like how each stage and topic that is discussed in this blog is straight to the point with enough information for it to be understandable if you don’t know much about it and not too much writing to the point where it can be messy and confusing which is nice. It is also nice to see that the information given has been quoted and sourced.
ReplyDeleteI have two questions to ask regarding the topic that are unanswered in the blog. In the second paragraph the writer says that the words ethics and morals are used interchangeably. What is the difference between ethics and morals?
My second question that I have is related to dark patterns. In the third paragraph an example of how hard it is to delete your Amazon account shows why it is a dark pattern. My second question is what are other examples of dark patterns? Have you ever personally experienced black patterns anywhere?
When I read this blog post I learned VPNs can actually protect you from dark patterns, for example if I accidently clicked on a link that exposed my IP online the VPN will keep it safe. I have also learned new writing techniques from reading this blog like how making subheadings make it much easier to look for specific parts of information and how the sources are linked to the subheadings which gives the blog a clean look.
My suggestion for the writer in the future is to give their own opinion and experiences on the topics mentioned because its interesting to hear other peoples thoughts and opinions on certain topics.
From Chloe (who had trouble leaving a comment)
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading Kelly's blog post. I found it to be very informative and showed that she had a good comprehension of the material. I really loved the neat layout out; it has a strong structure which makes it very pleasant to read (The colour scheme is cute). Kelly also has all her references listed which is important. Overall, I think this is a really great blog post and I can't find much that needs improving. Something I would maybe suggest would be to add a conclusion paragraph at the end that wraps up the main idea of the blog.
Hi Kelly I thoroughly enjoyed your blog post as I found it to be very informative. I love how you explained everything quite clearly so that readers with no understanding of the topics discussed could get a better understanding of them. From your blog I could tell that the videos were easy to comprehend. I love that you chose a font that's easy to read and I liked the photo selected. The only part I think you could work on is an intro. Although your blog is excellent with great grammar and vocabulary I think a short intro introduction into what you will be discussing could improve your blog even more. Good job and keep up the great work!
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