1. Confirm that you are able to conduct an ethical analysis of a socio-technical scenario (a computing-related issue that affects people). 2. Confirm that you are able to use the ethical theories, relevant topics from the course material and professional codes of ethics we have learned to analyze a socio-technical scenario. If you utilize materials you’ve found, be sure use inline citations (e.g., [1] or superscripts1) at the appropriate places within your statement and analysis sections that refer to the references in a bibliography. Statement Section Describe your Current Events scenario, giving any necessary background on your current events topic. This section should be at least two full paragraphs (minimally half a page) 1. Present and explain your scenario in enough detail so the rest of the analysis is clear. Include any additional information necessary for understanding the rest of your analysis (including, if necessary, any background information regarding your current events topic). 2. Let the reader know why your topic is an important topic to the Computing field. 3. Clearly state the ethical issue(s) that arise in your scenario. Analysis Sections Format: As you know, an ethical analysis includes the following 8-9 sections. Write each section separately, marked with its own section title. Unique Analysis: Everyone’s analysis will be different. Your scenario will lead you to identify its particular moral agents, stakeholder, courses of action and consequences. You will uniquely apply the ethical theories to your scenario, and choose the most relevant codes of ethics for it. 1. Identify the moral agents (agency). 2. What is at stake? 3. Who/what are the stakeholders? 4. At least 2 possible courses of action (identify at least 2). – Start a new paragraph for each. Begin that paragraph by stating: “A possible course of action is XXX”. – Describe the course of action clearly enough for the reader to understand your analysis. 5. Consequences associated with each course of action. – For each, state: “A(nother) consequence of the action XXX is YYY”. 6. Analyze the case using the 5 objective ethical theories – You will need 5 clearly marked subsections, one for each theory (Kantianism, Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Social Contract Theory/Rawls’ Principles of Justice, Virtue Theory). 7. Identify and Apply any clauses in the two codes of ethics – You will need 2 clearly marked subsections, one for the ACM Code of Ethics and the other for the Software Engineering Code of Ethics. – Give the clause number and the actual clause and then state how and why each would apply to this situation. – The clauses in the codes are generic enough that several codes can apply. (Warning: Do not state that no codes apply because they are software related if your case study is not about software. There are broader principles that do apply because your ethics scenario does concern computing and/or the design of systems with socio-technical aspects. 8. Which concrete action do you would recommend (supported by your analysis). Justify by clearly explaining why. It must be one of the actions you described in number 4. 9. Bibliography: If you used any materials besides the textbook and codes of ethics you must reference them in your bibliography and use inline citations for these materials where you use them in your report sections. (The bibliography is not part of your page count. Use APA or MLA format.)