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The governance of the Internet provides one of the most important arenas in which new ideas regarding Internet studies can be applied and tested. . "If the government, NGOs and other stakeholders would expand their perspectives on Internet governance derived from more institutionalized arenas, and from a more sophisticated understanding of the way inter-state politics play a role in establishing the pressures and constraints of security policy, it would allow a more critical understanding of the way security claims can be exploited strategically to advance the interests of military and governmental actors'

Crony Capitalism: Unhealthy Relations Between Business and Government

The new cultural developments problematize the previous policy frames that governed educational technology when the CIPA was set in place. The policy argument of expanding youth access to computing via schools becomes weak if young people prefer to use new media away from school. Furthermore, young people appear to engage in far more creative and compelling learning behaviors with new media outside of school, with few opportunities within classroom walls.

A look at the history of Facebook regarding privacy concerns and user settings. Some very eye opening statistics regarding how many people have never modified their privacy settings as well as what Facebook has pushed through without permission and then had to readjust later after some pushback from consumers and governments.

The 87% of respondents in this sample who say they had heard at least a little about the government's surveillance programs were asked a series of questions about whether they had changed some of the ways they use technology. This section of the report covers their answers.

I have this idea that maybe the digital age is a new thing and that it will evolve in some way naturally. Maybe this is an example? It's sort of dialectic: People say anything online, government watches, people curtail this. I think it's probably good that people curtail this!

The preservation of cultural memory falls upon custodians of cultural memory. "Separating usage [allowing users to utilize exact replicas] from the original, digital technology affords multiple, simultaneous uses from a single original in ways that are simply not possible for materials stored in any other form" (p. 2). Although digital technologies afford advantages in the digital preservation of information, using digital technologies for preservation of original works poses ethical and moral concerns not previously encountered. Again, the continual evolution of technological devices and software severely challenges archival efforts. "…technological obsolescence represents a far greater threat to information in digital form than the inherent physical fragility of many digital media" (p. 5). "Jeff Rothenberg, for example, has recently suggested that there may be sufficient demand for entrepreneurs to create and archive emulators of software and operating systems that would allow the contents of digital information to be carried forward and used in its original format" (p. 6). Perhaps the greatest challenges facing digital archiving are "costs and the technical, legal and organizational complexities of moving digital information forward into the future raise our greatest fear about the life of information in the digital future: namely, that owners or custodians who can no longer bear the expense and difficulty will deliberately or inadvertently, through a simple failure to act, destroy the objects without regard for future use" (p. 7). To this end, the "Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) have joined together in charging the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information to take this first essential step toward a national system of digital preservation. They have asked the Task Force to "consult broadly among librarians, archivists, curators, technologists, relevant government and private sector or

This news article is from a lesser known online publication, though the author is careful to provide links to well-known publications and government sources to support their points. The goal is to highlight the lack of security protocols by universities and schools managing student data and the potential hazards including hackers releasing student information

The digitization of media goods effectively weakened copyright laws across the globe by making it easy for ordinary consumers to illegally share media files from computer to computer. Many industry observers have called for reform of existing copyright policy to address issues particular to digitization, and governments have tried a variety of policies to mitigate the impact piracy has had on sales.

Baum, S, Harris, D. Kelly, A. and Mitchell, T (2017) A Principled Federal Role in Higher Education, Brief https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/ A brief from the Urban Institute that discusses the role of the federal government in higher education and describes points of action recommended to improve higher education across the nation. These include subsiding costs, data gathering for market function improvement, accountability and quality assurance, and support for research at public institutions. College enrollment continues a downward trend for undergraduate enrollment and an upward trend in graduate enrollment.