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COM 449 Module Two Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
At this point in the course, you have learned about legal privacy protections, such as the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as the impact of new technologies on privacy. In this assignment, you will analyze how judicial and legislative branches of government must reevaluate the level of privacy citizens and businesses can expect and should be given when faced with new technologies and channels. You will also analyze how these decisions might impact private and professional communication.
Prompt
Imagine you work as the communication director for a large conglomerate. A number of privacy-related issues have been in the news recently, and your executive team has requested you provide information on three areas of privacy concerns at the next leadership meeting.
For this assignment, select one of the three technologies listed below. You will then discuss the related privacy issues, legal and illegal uses or actions, ethical issues, and social media implications associated with the technology.
Technologies With Privacy Concerns
- Cell phone location data
- Drone data collection and surveillance
- Personal data stored by businesses
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
- Privacy Issues: Identify the ways your chosen technology could violate the privacy of individuals or businesses, using course resources to support your response.
- Legal and Illegal Use or Actions: Identify legal and illegal uses related to your chosen technology. Justify your examples using evidence from the course or other external resources to support your response.
- Ethical Issues: Identify key ethical issues related to your chosen technology. Explain why your identified issues present ethical concerns, using course resources to support your response.
- Implications for Communication: Discuss how your selected technology impacts or could impact the field of communication by examining general organizational and professional use cases and the legal and ethical considerations for each use case.
What to Submit
Submit this assignment as a 500- to 750-word Word document. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Module Two Short Paper Rubric
| Criteria | Exemplary (100%) | Proficient (85%) | Needs Improvement (55%) | Not Evident (0%) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy Issues | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Identifies ways in which the chosen technology could violate the privacy of individuals or businesses, using course resources to support the response | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing additional examples of the ways in which the chosen technology could violate privacy | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| Legal and Illegal Use or Actions | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Identifies legal and illegal uses related to the chosen technology, justifying examples and using evidence from the course or other external resources to support the response | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include adding more examples of legal or illegal uses related to the chosen technology or further justifying the examples with additional evidence | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
| Ethical Issues | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Identifies key ethical issues related to the chosen technology, using course resources to support the response | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include adding more examples of ethical issues or providing additional justifications to support the response | Does not attempt criterion | 15 |
| Implications for Communication | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Discusses how the selected technology impacts or could impact the field of communication by examining general organizational and professional use cases and the legal and ethical considerations for each use case | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include further discussing the use cases and their considerations specific to the field of communication | Does not attempt criterion | 20 |
| Articulation of Response | Exceeds proficiency in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner | Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose | Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability | Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas | 20 |
| Citations and Attributions | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with few or no minor errors | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with consistent minor errors | Uses citations for ideas requiring attribution, with major errors | Does not use citations for ideas requiring attribution | 10 |
| Total: | 100% |
