Do avatars have digital rights? - 20 views
hi weiye, i agree with you that this brings in the topic of representation. maybe you should try taking media and representation by Dr. Ingrid to discuss more on this. Going back to your questio...
What's so Original in Academic Research? - 26 views
Thanks for your comments. I may have appeared to be contradictory, but what I really meant was that ownership of IP should not be a motivating factor to innovate. I realise that in our capitalistic...
Anti plagiarism is (un)ethical - 20 views
I think there is a need to investigate the motivation behind using these softwares. Suppose a writer has recently come across an article that seemingly have plagiarised, thus using the software to ...
Censorship of War News Undermines Public Trust - 20 views
I posted a bookmark on something related to this issue. http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC090907-0000047/The-photo-thats-caused-a-stir AP decided to publish a photo of a fatally wounded young ...
Private educational provider threatens online forum with defamation - 23 views
The case study can be found here: http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/06/report-private-educational-provider-threatens-online-forum-with-defamation/ Summary: Private educational provider (Harriet...
A different kind of "human flesh" search engine - 13 views
Someone told me that some guys take pictures of random pretty girls on the street, post them up on the online forum hardwarezone, and together they pool their resources to identify who she is. =) ...
Hurray, file sharing being legal! - 12 views
Hi Karin, I don't think it would be necessarily bad news for record companies. Some musicians gained popularity only after their music files were passed over the internet. In some ways, it could ...
Student arrested for posting guide to suicide - 13 views
I think this is an interesting topic to discuss on the IVLE. If you can please post this there, we can start a discussion on this. Karin Tan wrote: > http://www.orientexpat.com/forum/3467-student-...
Online data privacy - 12 views
I think another question has to be brought up: Is the information meant to be public or private? If the information is public, then users should know they are risking identity theft by putting in...
Medical Identity Theft - 13 views
Ethics discussion based on new movie, "Surrogates" - 8 views
This movie upset me. I don't think the director developed the premise and plot to the potential it could have reached. Quite a shallow interpretation. But it does raise some intrigue. I'm a bit stu...
The gender digital divide in francophone Africa: A harsh reality - 10 views
http://www.apc.org/en/pubs/manuals/gender/africa/gender-digital-divide-francophone-africa-harsh-rea According to the principle of equality, everyone ought to have "equal entitlement to the condi...
Immortality only 20 years away says scientist - 9 views
wow interesting! like a start to the creation of super heroes!! it kind of sound like science is playing God here, determining and extending lives. it is already evident now in this society without...
Privacy in Singapore - 9 views
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN002553.pdf There is no general data protection or privacy law in Singapore. The government has been aggressive in using surveill...
Identifying homosexuals through Facebook. - 11 views
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/ A group of students from MIT actually wrote a program to pr...
RIAA Sues Teen for Copying Homework - 11 views
Virus as a call for help, as a part of a larger social problem - 7 views
I agree with this view, and I also add on that yes, it is probably more profitable for the capitalist, wired society to continue creating anti-virus programs, open more it repair shops etc, than to...
Miss Malaysia Toy Boy - 7 views
Yes, commodification has led to liberation. After all, capitalism is all about creating new markets for more production and consumption. Beauty has all along been commodified since the oldest trade...
The Moment of Truth - 5 views
The idea of Truth (vis-a-vis truth or Truths and truths) is very interesting and keeps recurring in all ethical debates. My question is, is Truth discovered? Or is Truth invented? As some of us h...