Colin Manning Munster Technological University

This was an extra class. But only one student turned up so I called it off.

We watched the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror. We discussed a number of issues raised in the episodes: the con flight between child pro...

We discussed the DDR and how people in different countries can have different levels of sensitivity to potential abuses of surveillance tech...

We watched Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives of Others). This movie depicts life in the final years of the DDR (East Germany).  We will d...

We looked at data protection principles very briefly. We will look at data protection again. We looked at the sources of law in Ireland. I...

We looked some more at privacy and discussed whether we value yo it for its intrinsic or extrinsic properties.  We settled on extrinsic. W...

We discussed codes of ethics some more and talked about the computer profession's obligations to society at large. We discussed whistl...

Students got into small groups and each was given a professional ethical problem to resolve. We discussed the possible solutions. I was su...

We looked at the Professional Codes of Conduct for the IEEE, ACM, and ICS. Students broke into groups and examined one of the case studies...

We discussed the issues raised in the Would You Kill the Big Guy radio programmes.  Most students listened to it like I asked. But there wer...

We looked at Intuitionism and Consequentialism. We looked at moral machine.mit.edu I asked students to listen to Would You Kill the Big ...

I introduced myself and the module.  I talked abut the assessment and about the kinds of topics the module will cover. We looked at source...

No students turned up.  In light of this week’s attendance there seems to be little point in scheduling classes for next week. If anyone ...

No students showed up

Nobody turned up.

At the start of class I asked if anyone had any questions on foot of the exam. There were none. We watched Black Mirror: Arkangel ...

One two students came to class. They were only there to get some assessment results, so in the end we didn't watch the video. We discuss...

We watched Black Mirror: Nosedive. Afterwards in our discussion one student drew parallel with the system is use in the show, with the s...

We had an in-class exam. Results will be available next week hopefully

We had no class. I had to be somewhere else