Cyberfluency Issues

Tom Kelliher, CS 102

Mar. 2, 2001

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Cyberfluency.

Outline

1. Various cyberfluency issues.

Coming Up

What would you like to discuss?

Mass e-mail

1. Is there a world where we can replace mass e-mail with something web-based? A form of GNAV?

2. Should I be doing more to evangelize other forms of Internet communication? What's the best way to do this?

3. Are we dealing with a fear of change problem?

4. Should club presidents be able to e-mail all students or just the members of their clubs?

Napster

1. How does it work?

2. How do they avoid storing MP3 files?

3. What is an MP3 file?

4. What were their arguments regarding copyright infringement and non-commercial use?

5. Are artists being hurt?

6. Shouldn't the artists decide? Recording industry muddies the water.

7. Are we against, in principle, but use, in practice?

8. Why Gnutella will fail?

Internet Cookies

1. What are they? Are they programs? Do they send information?

2. Why were they invented? State information, within the cookie or using the cookie as an ID for data stored in a database.

3. Companies conspiring to use one pixel gifs from a central server and a unique cookie to build a profile. DoubleClick. DoubleClick buying a marketing company that had name and address data and cross-referencing it.

   No identifying information (name), but who needs that?

4. Segue. Database cross-referencing. Defunct dot-coms selling databases. Amazon changing their privacy policy.

   Privacy policies at dot-com sites.

   Opt-in vs. opt-out Internet privacy.

Online Communities

1. Online references for teachers.

2. Online communities. D & D sites. Chat sites.

3. Are they really communities?

4. ebay.