- May 29 - Added a video section to the reading (for in class or other required videos)
- June 3 - Added a number of readings and sections. If there are any readings you would like the audience (me included, of course) to read prior to your presentation, let me know as soon as possible so that I can include them! Any reading WITHOUT a number is not YET required, but may or may not be in the future.
Readings
Overview
Reading 01 - Driven to Distraction
Reading 02 - You there, at the computer: Pay attention
Reading 03 - The Multitasking Generation
Reading 04 - Car-Computer Analogy
How Computers Work
Reading 05 - What is Information
Computer and Software Reliability
Reading 06 - Why software fails
Reading 07 - Who killed the FBI Virtual Case File?
Ethics and Morality
Reading 08 - Excerpts of: Ethics for the Information Age (Quinn)
Reading 09 - Excerpts of: CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (Spinello)
Introduction to Privacy
Note: There will be several readings throughout the rest of the semester that also related to privacy. These will be grouped together in a separate section at the bottom of the this page.
Reading 10 - Excerpts of: CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (Spinello)
Reading 11 - Excerpts of: No Place to Hide (skim only)
Reading 12 - New software can identify you from your online habits
Reading 13 - U.S. Settles With Company on Leak of Consumers' Data
Reading 14 - Value of Privacy (Schneier)
Reading 15 - Your Vanishing Privacy (Schneier)
Digital Divide
Reading 16 - Digital divide still separates students
Reading 17 - The Philadelphia experiment: Microsoft-designed school opens
Reading 18 - America's Digital Divide Narrows (skim for main ideas)
Effects of New Media & Consumer of Information and Information Access
Reading 19 - New tool enables sophisticated phishing scams
Reading 20 OPTIONAL - Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords as You Type (skim only)
Reading 21 OPTIONAL - Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself (skim only)
Blogs and Wikis
Optional 1 - Podcasting, Blogging Are Top Marketing Tools
Reading 22 - Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively
Optional 2 - Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites
Reading 23 - Rules to blog by
Web tracking
Optional 3 - Web bugs
Reading 24 - How Web Servers' Cookies Threaten Your Privacy
Optional 4 - 'Real IDs' Protect Privacy
Reading 25 - Real problems with Real ID
Gaming & Serious Games
Reading 26 - Multiplayer games are addictive
Reading 27 - Movement aims to get serious about games
The Online Generation
Reading 28 - Internet opens new route for kids to threaten their peers
Reading 29 - Do ICTs improve our lives?
Create a Sentient A.I. and Robotics
Reading 30 - What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Optional 5 - Hot Topics on A.I.
Optional 6 - Rise of the Machines
Reading 31 - South Korea plans code of ethics for robots
Access to Medical Information and Medical Technologies
Reading 32 - Warnings Over Privacy of U.S. Health Network
Optional 7 - It's the thinnest material ever and could revolutionise computers and medicine
Reading 33 - Police DNA database 'is spiralling out of control'
Electronic Voting
Reading 34 - The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines (Bruce Schneier)
Reading 35 - Academics Call Foul On Florida Test of Voting Machines
For Term Project Presentations
Team 1 - Digital Rights Management
Reading 36 - How Digital Rights Management Works
Reading 37 - Widevine claims to have solution to DRM controversy
Team 2 - Face Recognition
Reading 38 - How Facial Recognition Systems Work
Reading 39 - We can see clearly now
Team 3 - Government Access to Private Data
Reading 40 - Data Mining, what is it?
Reading 41 - Why we should fear the Matrix
Team 4 - Addiction
Reading 42 - Internet addiction: Stanford study seeks to define whether it's a problem
Reading 43 - In China, Stern Treatment For Young Internet 'Addicts'
Team 5 - Workplace E-monitoring
Reading 44 - Workplace e-mail is not your own
Reading 45 - Rebels in Black Robes Recoil At Surveillance of Computers
Team 6 - Internet Wiretapping
Reading 46 - The Perils of Wiretapping the Internet
Team 7 - Virtual Office
Reading 47 - The Arrival of the Virtual Office (Skim only)
Reading 48 - Virtual Offices: A Potential Disaster for Quality Employee Output
Team 8 - Online Communities
Reading 49 - Cyberspace as Dream World Illusion and Reality at the "Palace"
For Reading 49 - (focus on intro, facets of dreaming in cyberspace, and cyberspace as an alternative to dreaming)
Reading 50 - The Final Showdown Between In-Person and Cyberspace Relationships
For Reading 50 - (focus on intro, THE WORD, and the 5 Senses)
Reading 51 - What is a Virtual Community and Why Would You Ever Need One??
Team 9 - Digital Manipulation
Reading 52 - Can digital photos be trusted?
Reading 53 - Ethics in the Age of Digital Photography (Skim only)
Team 10 - Hacker Ethics
Reading 54 - Intro to Ethical Hacking (Skim only)
Reading 55 - T.J. Maxx hack exposes consumer data (Skim only)
Privacy Readings
Introductory
Reading 10 - Excerpts of: CyberEthics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace (Spinello)
Reading 11 - Excerpts of: No Place to Hide
Reading 12 - New software can identify you from your online habits
Reading 13 - U.S. Settles With Company on Leak of Consumers' Data
Reading 14 - Value of Privacy (Schneier)
Reading 15 - Your Vanishing Privacy (Schneier)
Private Sector
Public Sector
General
Video 01 - Future of Privacy (Schneier)
Videos
Privacy
Video 01 - Future of Privacy (Schneier)
Video 02 - No Place to Hide (see me if you would like to watch it again)
Video 03 - Marcia Bradshaw on TOP-CAT (Start at 37:30, end at 59:20)