Ethical web use
Relationships on the internet can be as real in real life. That why we must follow ethical codes when using the internet, just like we do when dealing with people face to face. Becasue you are hiden away on the internet, unethical behaviour is more common, so more awareness is needed to make our community of web users more knowledable and ethical.
"Ethics in everyday life serve as moral guideposts, comprising a code that defines behavior as right or wrong. The Web offers a vast store of information coupled with extensive communications capabilities, and unethical users can harness these capabilities for personal and financial gains at others' expense. Web ethics provide a guide to appropriate online behavior, adapting familiar ethical standards to provide a moral framework for navigating the Internet's virtual environment." - (smallbusiness.chron.com/ethics-33123.html)
Copyright
The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.
Copyright law protects almost everything on the internet, from pictures, music, videos, to name a few. If you would like you use any of these products that are protected it is important you must reference to artist, to show
you are not claiming the work as your own.
Plagiarism
"Plagiarism is the wrong appropriation and stealing and publication of another authors's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions and the representation of them as one's own original work" - Wikipedia (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism)
Plagiarism is a easy trap to fall into when researching or learning ideas or thoughts of other people. Simular concepts may be taken, but use of simular words and phrasing could mean you are plagiarising someone elses work.
These steps are:
1. Paraphrase
2.Cite
3.Quoting
4.Citing quotes
5. Cite your own material
6.Referencing
