You are a computer user. In your academic work, your engagement with public bodies such as a
City Council, your commercial activity such as purchasing online, and in your social activity
such as observing and communicating with others through TikTok and other social media, you
make use of computers every day. Through a diary-like essay describing a typical (or atypical)
day in your own life, interrogate the nature of contemporary identity.
In your essay, ensure that you include the following:
Place the notion of identity in context in the discipline of philosophy which branches address
identity and in what way?
How does this philosophical approach impact your understanding of information systems as they
are used by individuals such as yourself
What ethical decisions do you have to make, say, in your use of TikTok, on an average day; what
kind of Ethics underpins such decisions and how does it differ from other approaches to Ethics?
Ensure that you also cite and correctly reference Information Systems articles from the Basket
of 8 journals and principal IS conferences that discuss the nature of the computer user, and the
dark side of IS as it is evidenced through social media use..
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1. You are a computer user. In your academic work, your engagement with public bodies such as a
City Council, your commercial activity such as purchasing online, and in your social activity
such as observing and communicating with others through TikTok and other social media, you
make use of computers every day. Through a diary-like essay describing a typical (or atypical)
day in your own life, interrogate the nature of contemporary identity.
In your essay, ensure that you include the following:
Place the notion of identity in context in the discipline of philosophy which branches address
identity and in what way?
How does this philosophical approach impact your understanding of information systems as they
are used by individuals such as yourself
What ethical decisions do you have to make, say, in your use of TikTok, on an average day; what
kind of Ethics underpins such decisions and how does it differ from other approaches to Ethics?
Ensure that you also cite and correctly reference Information Systems articles from the Basket
of 8 journals and principal IS conferences that discuss the nature of the computer user, and the
dark side of IS as it is evidenced through social media use.
