...Chapter 4 Case: the dangers of using text messages Case Questions 1. Which of the five moral dimensions of the information systems identified in this text are involved in this case? Rights and obligations are involved since the person must know the proper use of the phone and be aware of the problems it can cause and be caused by not making a proper use of the phone. Also the quality of life since it covers all general aspects of life into which the values and ethics and social responsibility assumed by the person using the phone inappropriately is very high. Two . What are the ethical , social and political generated by this case? Ethics . - Because the individual in this case the driver used irresponsibly communication system while driving. Social . - It is understood that while driving and cause accidents with third cause a problem to society for all the impact it generates. Political . - Because in some U.S. states prohibit the use of cell phones while driving but in other states do not . Three . What ethical principles described in the text are useful for making decisions about the use of text messages while driving ? The responsibility , to enforce our obligations as citizens and thus ensure our security and therefore the security of others. If all motorists take the wrong decision to send messages would be many accidents and casualties . You have to be aware that we are not the only ones on the road . As Albert Einstein said : "I fear the day when...
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...The Effects of Cell-Phone and Text-Message Distractions on True and False Recognition Chase Flowers Psychology 201 03-14-12 Flowers 1 Abstract This study reviewed the effects of communication distractions such as cell-phone and texting on true and false recognition. “Participants who tested the study were presented with 24 Deese- Roediger-McDermott (DRM) lists while investigating the presence of absence of cell-phone and text-messaging distractions during study.” The participants were given a list of related words such as mother, crib, and diaper liked to non- related words such as baby. After they studied the list of words, the participants recalled or recognized the words. “Participants not only demonstrate high remembrance for presented words such as crib, but also recollection for non-related words such as baby.” The related words were examples of the true memory and the non-related words were examples of the false memory. “The true memory was highest when the participants were not presented with any distractions during study or DRM words, but poorer when they were required to complete a cell-phone conversation or text message task during study.” The results of this study are examined with respects to both activation monitoring and fuzzy trace theories. Introduction There are about 1.5 billion cell phones currently in used with an average of 75 billion text messages sent monthly worldwide. Although cellular use is great for communication...
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...David G. Fisher Professor Hallawell English 249 (Linguistics) 25 October 2011 Reading between the text message lines: How a culture becomes dependent on electronic communication and changes language skills forever. They are everywhere, in schoolyards, high school halls, businesses and even our own homes and they are having an effect on our culture at this very minute. You may even be reading this on one right now. They are cell phones and more and more they are being used for more than just talking; they are being used to send e-mail, text, and instant messages. What originally started out as a way to have more communication in case of emergencies and to have a way for teenagers and adults to stay connected to what is going on in each other’s lives has become a barrier to language abilities. (Bauerlein) In the immediacy of our consumer society we have become too reliant upon instant information and it has affected our way of communicating. A cell phone is now a device that can keep us continually linked to the internet, e-mail and text messages. The price for this convenience is that we have lost the ability to communicate effectively face to face or in writing, thusly loosing parts of our literacy level in this country. When the miracle of cell phones first came into popular use, most people were not that interested in the text message mostly because there was an extra charge associated with using the feature. After more time and as the phone plans began to...
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...in my current and previous work and what message types have resulted from these trends. Being in outside sales, efficient business communication is impairative. Because most of my communication is done view cell phone using email, text, fax and voicemail; when I do get a chance to meet with my assistant in the office, we need to get the most amount of work accomplished in a short amount of time. We also communicate after hours by email with daily sales reports, suspended billing (missing paperwork for billing) and unconfirmed deliveries (unable to set up patient for various reasons). I try to be efficient with my time. When sitting in an office waiting to meet with a Doctor, I text my assistant to get updates, email and fax orders to her for processing and monitor my calendar for follow up tasks. If management needs to communicate with us, they usually email our corporate email for follow up after hours, or if it’s urgent they will text. All of these would be considered messages that inform and consist of memos, status reports, and updated information. I also conduct a lot of external communication: messages that persuade, sales calls, follow up calls, used to garner a meeting and thank you letters. This is my primary business communication for sales purposes. Sales calls and follow up calls to offices and patients is a daily primary focus. They are a combination of messages to inform and messages to persuade. Messages to inform are when patients have questions...
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...A student in the Netherlands, as part of a class project, may have found a way to prevent censorship of text messages by enlisting the aid of the Bitcoin blockchain. Following the revelations of American whistleblower Edward Snowden regarding the US internet-spying program named PRISM, concerns about privacy have grown exponentially. Krzysztof Okupski, a 25-year-old graduate student, was discussing a potential project when his advisor, Dr. Boris Škorić, suggested using the blockchain to avoid censorship of messaging. Okupski immediately saw the humanitarian aspects of such a project and dove right in. He also developed the Bitcoin Developer Reference, which aims to provide specifications and API information to help people build Bitcoin-based applications. Okupski was determined to make the application as cost efficient as possible so that dissidents around the world would be able to engage in free speech without fear of governments censoring their messages. This is a particularly serious problem in countries such as China, and in many parts of the Middle East. Using the blockchain seemed to be the most efficient way to accomplish the goal of freedom. Okupski said: "Binding a payments network like bitcoin together with an anti-censorship system forces any repressive government to either accept or abandon both. Abandoning it might not be very smart, however, since bitcoin is an active and growing currency that an economy could benefit from.” The software is relatively...
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...ACARS is an Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System otherwise known as Digital DataLink System. ACARS was first developed in the 1970’s. It is a point-to-point service that either sends air-to-ground messages or receives ground-to-air messages from the cockpit. ACARS via Iridium now gives Flight Departments the capability to communicate with the aircraft in their fleet all over the globe. ACARS is now a viable option via Iridium. Until now ACARS was only available by 2 different mediums. ACARS via Very High Frequency (VHF) communication is only available through line of site. ACARS via Inmarsat (Satcom) is only available over the populated continents and does not provide communications over polar routes. The cost of Iridium service is far less than that of Satcom and is available over oceans whereas VHF is not. This allows aircraft to access various services provided by ACARS Service Providers. Aircraft can now send a number of automatic reports (OOOI, engine oil pressure, position reports, fuel, and etc) using ACARS via Iridium. Pilots can request relevant information pertaining to flight safety and receive necessary in-flight updates. Some of the data services include: Text-based and Graphical Weather, Flight Planning and Clearances, Text Messaging, Position Reporting, Automatic Terminal Information Services (ATIS), Terminal Weather Information for...
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...Communications Effective & Ineffective Rebecca Edwards BCOM/275 December 14, 2011 University of PhoenixDale J. Harrington Communications Effective & Ineffective Communication is a process of sending and receiving messages. Communication is to listen, receive information and someone else’s thoughts in writing, verbal or in person. I believe communications can be non-verbal or verbal. Verbal communications can be written or oral and non verbal is expressions, body move, and eye contact. We need to have good effective skills both personal and professional in every day life, to maintain relationships, either with co-workers or family. Demonstrative can be effective by collaborating. I believe oral communication is very effective, because we are voicing our opinion and receiving feedback from each employee. Having good effective skills both personal and professional in every day life, to maintain relationships, for example; co-workers family and friends. I believe in having eye contact indicates you are listening to the sender and [Incomplete sentence and the font size is 11 and not 12 with this paragraph.] Ineffective communication in an organization can lead to non-productive employees, due to ignoring the employees request or statements on the job situation. Unhealthy open door policy can make it difficult or employees to do their job properly. Some organizations have employees or management that have language barriers...
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...Wyatt studied 267 U.S. companies and found that those that communicate most effectively provided a 26 percent return to shareholders from 1998 to 2002. Those with the least-effective communication provided a return of 15 percent. Those with more effective communication also had less employee turnover.” (Roebuck, 2006). Communication is a two-way strip. A communication has at least two people involved for there to be a constructive and logical content; the sender, and the receiver. Irrespective of the medium used, the message should be clear and concise, and the technology used for the dissemination of the communication should be appropriate. In addition, the rationale of the message is significant to appropriate feedback. As an administrative assistant, one of my responsibilities was to inform my boss’ five direct reports of upcoming meetings, and events. The medium of sending the messages was through e-mails. Below is the content of three business messages I had the opportunity of sending, and receiving. Note: I would prefer not to use names; instead, I would use job titles. To: Security Managers/Senior Manager Direct Reports From: Justina Ashiedu-Nelson Subject: Habitat for Humanity Date: March 15, 2006 The senior manager has requested to meet with you on March 31st, 2006 at the Blue Room at 10:00 a.m. As a result of time constraint, please conduct a research, brainstorm, and provide suggestions to enable implementation of the department’s contribution to the...
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...Part I Consider this scenario: You were in a minor car accident. No one was hurt, but you are nonetheless a little rattled. How would you communicate your situation to family, friends, and classmates? What would be different if you had to communicate the situation to the insurance company? To my family and friends I am not going to lie I will be all panicky and over exaggerating things. Like I would make it so dramatic to where they would be like oh my goodness are you ok, and it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. If it was the insurance company I would be really calm, and tell the truth about everything that went on. Write a message of 100 to 200 words either to your family, friends, or classmates Dear mom, Your daughter almost died today I got into a car accident. My friend Tanya was driving, and out of nowhere a car came and hit us. I almost went through the windshield, and died. I think that you should give me lots of hugs and take me out because I’m still here. Dear Elizabeth, Friend I almost died today. Girl Tanya was driving like a bat out of you know where. You know she can’t really drive. Girl a car came and ran right into us messing with Tanya, and that phone. You know Tanya be on her phone twenty four seven , and don’t pay attention to nothing! Write a formal letter of 100 to 200 words to the insurance company. Use salutations and sign-offs where appropriate. Progressive 1234 state st. Junction city, KS 66441 To whom it may concern: My name...
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...associating is an extended form of lettering. E-mailing is usually fast depending on internet speed and free of payment. * Emailing is one of the most preferred ways of transmitting messages. * One reason of it being most preferred is because messages are delivered and received instantly. * Another reason why it is suitable for businesses is that it is usually free. Furthermore, images can also be attached. | SMS | This is also an electronic method that is used to communicate through text messaging by phone. * This may be an advantage for an audience with memory difficulties because it can be seen more than once. * This is because the message can be used as a reminder because the text message can be quickly and easily restored. * And some phones have the ability to remind people of events or things such as. * Also may be suitable for people with hearing difficulties. | Presentation | This has many audience which includes people with visual and hearing difficulties. It is explained by giving brief information to its audience * This is effective because images can also be used to help transmit messages to people who don’t speak English properly or don’t understand it properly. * For those also that has visual impairments subtitles may be useful to help transmit messages. Also audios that link to the business topic. * Or sign language can be used for people with hearing difficulties. Also the presentation may involve distractions which can be useful...
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...others in the business setting. It use scenarios, where employees in a business environment has to inform their coworker of the results from a report conducted by the accounting department, for the purpose of a possible acquisition of another company. The different scenarios includes examples from various channels to deliver the message for its intended purposes. The assignment by Team B was an exercise to give practice to team members, to write business communication and to review and learn from the feedback from the instructor. It also allow the team members to analyze the completed work and use as a learning tool. Each communique had a purpose which focused on the communication, from individuals in the accounting department. Each member from B Team were to write a communique using one of the scenarios provided by the assignment guidelines, as an employee in accounting, representing the company considering to acquire the other. The purpose of this summary is to evaluate the communiques by Team B and its effectiveness to its readers. The evaluation will also cover areas such as, appropriateness, style and channel, and suggestions for a more effective message. The first thing one might find important in this evaluation is the ethical implications of information discovered which have an effect on the evaluation. The information concludes that after careful review of the financial statements of JJJ Company, it appears, it may not serve as a benefit to the ABC Company to acquire JJJ...
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...he or she holds. Consequently, research into image formation needs to distinguish the variety of the images held by respective stakeholder groups (Cornelissen, 2000). Adapting to Audience Needs: Always try to give priority to the audience’s goals, hopes, interests and preferences. This can be achieved by adapting the “you’ attitude as opposed to “me” when communicating to customers. Adapting to audience needs also means obtaining good background knowledge of the audience thereby being able to communicate and empathize with them relevant ways. As writers charged with fashioning effective communication, we are advised to shape our texts according to the practical and cultural needs of our audiences (Durack, 1998). Establishing Credibility: By showing honesty and integrity you induce respect from your audience. Audience responses to your messages depend heavily on your credibility, a measure of your believability, based on how reliable you are and how much trust you evoke in others. With audiences who...
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...behind the message. Disadvantages – Restrict participation to those physically present. In most cases, reduce communicator’s control over the message. Other than for messages that are prewritten and rehearsed, offer no opportunity to review or edit spoken words. (Textbook, page 100) Written Media. Printed messages have been replaced in many instances by electronic media, although the print medium still has a place in business today. (Textbook, page 96) Advantages – Allow planning, and control of message. Reach geographically dispersed audiences. Can help control the emotional aspects of an interchange by eliminating interpersonal communication. Disadvantages – Usually not conducive to speedy feedback. Lack the rich nonverbal cues provided by oral media. For elaborate documents, can require special skills in preparation and production. (Textbook, page 100) Visual Media. In some situations, a message that is predominantly visual, with text used to support the illustration, can be more effective that a message that relies primarily on text. (Textbook, page 98) Advantages – Can convey complex ideas and relationships quickly. Often less intimidating than long blocks of text, particularly for nonnative readers. Can reduce the burden on the audience to figure out how the pieces fit. Disadvantages – Can require artistic skills to design. Require some technical skills to create. More difficult to transmit and store than simple textual messages. (Textbook...
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...article, Stuart(2005) argues why annual report is still important. He provides four points that annual report can offer to show the next horizon and resonate with shareholders. Those key messages can guide shareholders effectively in order to realize high financial results. This article explains the report question efficiently what necessary messages and major method communication is demanded to shareholders and possible inventors. While it is limiting since the article come down to checking the characteristic an annual report needs which can exchange ideals efficiently with its main readers. In addition, Stuart(2005,P.2) illustrates many success examples how DTCC change their annual report by using some new methods such as benchmarking approaches and techniques, set up senior communication officer. Those examples are rarely and cannot be seen as evidence. The lack of the source is perhaps it is useful in DTCC but the author does not show some evidence whether they can be used in other companies to communicate with shareholders. Text 1 Goldstein, Stuart Z. 2005, ‘Unleashing the power of the annual report at DTCC’, Strategic Communication Management, vol.9, no.3, pg.30 Text 2 Arumugam, S. 2005, ‘Navigating the web of Financial Reporting’, EBF，issue 23 winter 2005/6, pp.51 Text 3 Australian Shareholders’...
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...Compare and Contrast Communication is done in many different forms; face-to-face, email, text messages, or over the phone. Communication is necessary in everyday living. It’s also essential in the workplace. Chili’s Bar and Grill and Harris Assembly Group have to communicate face-to-face with the customers, managers, and staff. With this communication you can see the person’s body language. Body Language can speak as loud as your voice. Body language constitutes 50 percent or more of what we are communicating. So maintaining a positive body posture and gesture is important. On the hand, Universal America, Uni-Fi, and Goodrich use other forms of communication, such as telephone and computers. These devices have become more popular and convenient to use. Technology has advanced and now more and more people are using these devices. You even have computers that answer the phone versus a live human. These devices can make communication a little difficult. Whomever is receiving the message can interpret the message however they choose. You could be meaning one thing and the other, giving their mood or environment at the time, can take it as something else. I recommend that we all need to utilize all forms of communication so that information is not taken the wrong way. It can be very difficult to use all at one time but if you are sending an email or making a phone call, you should follow up with a face-to-face meeting to make sure every one is on the right...
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