English 130 on Internet Issues

In a sweeping victory for free speech rights in cyberspace, the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU in June 1997. The Court granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet, and cyber-activists are still dancing in the streets.

Users often wish to participate in online groups anonymously, but misbehaving users may abuse this anonymity to spam or disrupt the group. We present the first general messaging protocol that offers provable anonymity with accountability for moderate-size groups, and efficiently handles unbalanced loads where few members have much data to transmit in a given round.

"I need to get off Facebook and write my paper": Plenty of students have seen those statuses posted by friends on Facebook when they were supposed to be studying. Some students even posted that particular status themselves. Facebook has become the biggest distraction for students when trying to get homework done.

This article talks about how we express out identity through social media.

this article goes into detail of the role social media is playing and what it is changing.

Around the world, information technology increasingly pervades weapons systems, defense infrastructures, and national economies. As a result, cyberspace has become a new international battlefield for terrorist.

Online teaching vs face to face teaching.

Early records of music piracy on the Internet.

A little info on how illegal internet dowloading decreases the sale of cd's.

An article about internet addiction in South Korea.

Explains the major changes social networking such as Facebook has taken, including the increase in popularity and the way we use it.

how twitter can be used for educational activites.

How social media is changing the way we do things in our daily lives and how we react to them.

Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people's electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world. Make that 9.9 billion and change.

How the internet influences education

Technology Use in Elementary Education in Turkey: A Case Study

Vitak, J. (2008). Facebook "friends": How online identity affects offline relationships. Master's thesis, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

"Bupropion Sustained Release Treatment Decreases Craving for Video Games and Cue-Induced Brain Activity in Patients With Internet Video Game Addiction"

This article discusses the top reasons of why a person would want to join a social networking site.