Mike, a computer engineering major, understands how a computer hacker recently accessed confidential personal information files on faculty members at his university. The procedure is actually simple enough that even people without sophisticated technical ability could understand and replicate it. Mike thinks that the procedure might be a good topic for an interesting informative speech. Meanwhile, Mike’s classmate Paul, a chemistry major, considers whether to give an informative speech on how to create homemade explosives. If you are privy to confidential or potentially dangerous information, is it ethical to share it with others in an informative speech?
The nature and meaning of globalization and whether indeed it represents a qualitative difference from industrial society has spurred important theoretical debates. Have our lives and our experience and understanding changed so much in the past 50 years? Is global capitalism today so very different from what it was in the 19th century or is the underlying logic the same? What does it mean to say we are living in a globalized world and does that apply to everyone everywhere equally?
November 21, 2016
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