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What is Troll/Troller

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ethics in the Digital Era
Usually a fake account created in social media used for posts aiming to quarrel or to upset people in online social media.
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Social Media Short Video-Sharing TikTok Application and Ethics: Data Privacy and Addiction Issues
Kevser Zeynep Meral (İstanbul Bahçeşehir University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4117-3.ch010
Abstract
With 3.8 billion users, social media created ethical problems as well. The Cambridge Analytica scandal has been a serious issue with data security lately. Contents not in compliance with general moral rules is another important violation of ethics. TikTok application, the fastest-rising short video-sharing website, is examined. As a result of the literature review, it is observed that TikTok application also had ethical violations issues like lack of private data safety, not sufficient precautionary system barriers for the young generation, and addiction risk. Furthermore, considering that the young people can interact with malicious users through the fake accounts and the risk of sharing their exceptional videos to have more viewers, it is suggested that the sanctions should be arranged as a deterrent in violation of the rules. Parents and young users must be educated about the risks and ethical violations of social media.
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