Final Paper Topics COMM -5105 -40 – Workplace Communication Choose one of the scenarios below for your final individual paper assignment. Critically analyze a hypothetical case study examining the ethical, cultural, and technical issues presented and the communicative strategies used to manage the situation, and exploring possible alternatives based on their knowledge of effective business communication. Details: • Paper should be 5 -8 pages in length • You must follow APA style. o Please refer to one of the following resources for support on using APA style. ▪ CBU Writing Centre ▪ Purdue OWL • Remember the 80/20 rule – 80% of what you writ e must be your own ideas. Use the remaining 20% to provide support for your ideas using secondary research. • You must include a cover page and references page, as outlined in the APA style guides. • Due date: Friday December 8, 2023 by 11:59pm . o Send by email to jennifer _billard@cbu.ca 1. Computer antivirus expert John McAfee claims that technological intrusions into our privacy degrade our humanity. “Google, or at least certain people at Google … would like us to believe that if we have nothing to hide, we should not mind if everybody knows everything that we do,” McAfee stated. “We cannot have intrusions into our lives and still have freedom,” he said. Do you agree with McAfee? Why or why not ? How do you think these comments relate to privacy in communication in the workplace? 2. In her book Alone Together, professor Sherry Turkle argues that increasing dependence on technology leads to a consequent diminution in personal connections. “Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connection s … may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.” Do you agree that technology diminishes personal relationships rather than bringing us closer together? Do es social media fool us into thinking that we are connected when in reality we bear none of the commitments and burdens of true friendship? How would you approach employees who have demonstrated poor use of social media in, or related to, their workplace? 3. Tweeting, texting, and quick e-mailing all may result in sloppy mess ages. Author Mark Garvey argued, “In business, in education, in the arts, in any writing that takes place outside the linguistic cul -de -sac of our close friends and relatives, writers are expected to reach for certain standards of clarity, concision and ca re.” What did Garvey mean? Do you agree? How might employees become better at communicating using the technology available to them? 4. Although they don’t actually pay people to act as fans on social networks and entice their friends to do so as well, some marketers employ machines, called bots, to inflate the number of their fans and followers online. In developing countries , businesses trafficking in fake profiles, the so -called click farms, are selling 1,000 followers for $10. Social networks try to respo nd by deleting fake accounts, and the likes earned in the process vanish too. Google has introduced an algorithm to eliminate spammers and other abusers of its systems, and Facebook and Twitter will probably follow suit. Why do some businesses resort to such measures? What might be the consequences of faking fans?