Ethics involves systems of moral principles that guide people's decisions and behavior. Online, ethical issues can arise from downloading content without permission, keeping data that doesn't belong to you, copyright infringement of images and text without citing sources. Privacy is also an important online ethical issue, as personal data generated online can be sold to advertisers, and people are often surveyed without consent. Younger generations may understand and value privacy differently than older ones, carefully managing disclosure of information rather than seeking to hide it completely.

1. Kazim Pardhan
Elmer George

2.  Ethics is a system of moral principles. They
affect how people make decisions and lead
their lives.
• Ethical issues can include Privacy, The public
sphere, Remix culture, Parents’ knowledge of
their children’s social media use.
 Moral principles that govern a person's or
group's behavior.
 The moral correctness of specified conduct.

3.  Online, ethical issues are involved when:
 Downloading content without permission
 Keeping data that doesn’t belong to you/without
permission
 Image & text copyright
 No references to source
 Owner’s permission
 Money
 Privacy

4.  Online your privacy is a product, data that
you create while online can be sold you
advertisers.
 While online you are being surveyed, which
can be seen as a invasion of privacy.
 ‘Privacy refers to how a person’s personal
data and information about others are
handled in social contexts’ (James et
al, 2008, p.35)

5.  ‘Thesharing that is happening online ‘does
not necessarily suggest that youth do not
value their own privacy or respect others’
privacy, but it does suggest that they
understand privacy differently than earlier
generations did’ (James et al, 2008, p36)

6.  Innovative
 Convergent
 Everyday
 Appropriative
 Networked
 Global
 Generational
 Unequal
(Jenkins, 2006)

7.  ‘To many young participants, privacy is
not about hiding personal information
but rather involves carefully managing
its disclosure—what is shared, how it is
presented, and who can access it’
(James et al, 2008, p.36)

8.  ‘Offline authorship and ownership are tied to the
legal concept of property (intellectual or
tangible), which gives the ownership and
exclusive intellectual property rights for a work
to an individual or organization. In short, credit
and profit are given to creators or owners. In
schools, plagiarism codes help guide students
about the fair use of offline copyrighted
materials and citation styles’(James et al, 2008,
p.46)