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Submitted by Sarah Hartman-Caverly on August 4th, 2023
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This workshop engages participants in exploring corporate data collection, personal profiling, deceptive design, and data brokerage practices. Workshop content is contextualized with the theoretical frameworks of panoptic sort (Gandy), surveillance capitalism (Zuboff), and the four regulators (Lessig) and presented through a privacy and business ethics lens. Participants will learn how companies make money from data collection practices; explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors; and discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.
The workshop is designed for 75-minute class sessions, but can be compressed into 60-minute sessions.
Includes workshop guide, presentation slides, learning activities, and assessment instrument.

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  1. Learn how companies make money from data collection practices
  2. Explore how interface design can influence our choices and behaviors
  3. Discuss business ethics regarding privacy and big data.

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Suggested Citation: 
Hartman-Caverly, Sarah. "Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2023. https://projectcora.org/assignment/dark-patterns-surveillance-capitalism-and-business-ethics.

Teaching Resource

BLExIM is an informal co-op of business librarians collegially sharing their personal Instructional Materials (IM) for everyone’s benefit. The three Organizers are all academic business librarians across the U.S.

Submitted by Nataly Blas on November 28th, 2018
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The Business Task Cards is a 1-hour team-based activity. The activity was created for a business management course that needed to complete a business opportunity project. The activity requires students to complete four tasks: 1) Find company information, 2) Find a company's income statement, 3) Find articles on a company's management strategy, and 4) Find current industry trends that will impact the company. A print and online version of the activity is provided.

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LO #1: Students will match information needs to business search tools in order to locate relevant company information. LO #2: Students will recognize the information type and evaluate how it meets their information need.

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Business

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This activity was used for an upper-division business management course.

Assessment or Criteria for Success
Assessment Short Description: 
Print version - collect task cards at the end of the course for assessment purposes. Online version - student submissions are collected via Google Forms.
Suggested Citation: 
Blas, Nataly. "Business Task Cards Activity." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2018. https://projectcora.org/assignment/business-task-cards-activity.
Submitted by Sarah Vital on January 27th, 2017
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A 90 minute session with first year students in the School of Economics and Business Administration. Covered areas included overview of difficulties in searching and algorithm bias. Emphasis was on the importance to being critical consumers of information and understanding searches are not neutral.

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Students are aware of the “algorithm bias” that is inherent in the technology of search engines (all search engines, from Google to library databases) and how this affects their search for information (and the concerns this bias has for social justice). Students understand ways to overcome this bias by 1) critically evaluating not just the individual resources found but also the search results in general , 2) using multiple resources for information retrieval, and 3) making use of experts and known, reliable sources

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Course Context (e.g. how it was implemented or integrated): 

This was a session for the required First Year Experience .25 credit course. All students have majors declared in Business Administration (including Marketing and Finance), Economics, or Accounting

Suggested Citation: 
Vital, Sarah. "Social Justice in Information- First Year Business Students." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2017. https://projectcora.org/assignment/social-justice-information-first-year-business-students.