Week 10 Lecture

This week's lecture focused on internet censorship and further discussion about internet privacy.

Internet Censorship:

Government or other relevant institutes try to block some "inappropriate content" for child or others, it is called internet censorship. Usually they said this is to prevent young people from porns and violent stuff, but some other political information are also being filtered. It causes bottleneck as well, slow down the speed of the internet, and maybe we have to pay for it, cause ISPs are going to pay for the censorship technology therefore they are gonna charge the customers.

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Internet Privacy:

This week's lecture talked about some sponsors of Facebook and one of them is In-Q-Tel, and they seems to be an "database" for C.I.A., and the facebok users conditions clear says that all the informations you put there belong to them, therefore all the informations can be access by In-Q-Tel.

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Week 9 Lecture

This week's lecture talks about Cyberpunk and William Gibson.

Cyberpunk

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Cyberpunk, the word, is the mix of the word "cybernetics" and the word "punk". This is a sub genre of sci-fi, mainly focus on hackers, artificial intelligence and future world. Can be seen as a "literature post modernism".

William Gibson

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Born in 17th Mar 1948, the most influential writer in cyberpunk genre.

Week 7 Tutespark

Mozilla Firefox

I've been using this free software quite a while, and I absolutely love it.

I don't know much about the technical factors behind this software but it runs stable on my computer, for example when I wanna download an album from Rapidshare, Safari usually get crashed, and Firefox don't. And usually when I'm using my Mac I always have both Safari and Firefox running, that sounds sort of ridiculous but I got no other choice, I'm used to use Safari but when I try to download something I have to use Fireforx.

I tried to use amsn as well, after I downloaded it just won't work, it's not the software problem it's the server problem, so I can't tell the benefits of this software.

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Week 6 Tutespark

source: http://www.last.fm/legal/privacy

This is the terms of privacy from music social network last.fm , which I use a lot.

From this we can see that last.fm claims to have the right to use photos on your profile page, therefore I think when you uploading contents to your profile page, they owns the content.

Also they can use your personal information such as name, location, age, sex etc. to help their business partners target groups.

Basicly they owns everything.

Then I cheched other social networks, once again they own pic, videos, text etc. you uploaded.

Week 8 Lecture

Week 7 Lecture

This week's lecture talked about Creative Commons and free softwares.

As described by creative common website:

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

I think some of the keywords are:

nonprofit: that's the basic and fundamental idea of creative commons, culture should be shared for free.

share: people can share different informations.

build: people can edit it and then, share.

source: http://creativecommons.org/

Week 6 Lecture

This week's lecture talks about the issue of media, especially social media, web 2.0.

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Network sites in recent year focus on individuals more, that is to say, the relationship between individuals are being valued (people care about express their unique identities online) more by internet users and servers providers.
Internet users are now obsessed about various social network sites i.e. facebook, and it's like a "ego-centric social network", as the lecture notes implies.
Web 2.0 sites also bring problems as well, the one that draw peoples' attentions most is the issue of internet privacy.