New Media Ethics 2009 course

http://www.tnp.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,209251,00.html 1) Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) raided 13 shops in Lucky Plaza and arrested 27 men and one woman, aged...

Pirated games Illegal modification

started by Paul Melissa on 24 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

Parody copyright

started by Jude John on 24 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

As is the beginnings of copyright laws, it is to place value on IP so that people will have the motivation and incentive to produce and create even more in the future. Therefore, by saying th...

Copyright

started by Jude John on 24 Aug 09 5 follow-ups, last by Karin Tan on 26 Aug 09

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...

started by Weiye Loh on 21 Aug 09 4 follow-ups, last by Jude John on 25 Aug 09

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 ...

Turnitin plagiarism

started by Weiye Loh on 21 Aug 09 4 follow-ups, last by Chen Guo Lim on 26 Aug 09

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...

Virus

started by Weiye Loh on 21 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by juliet huang on 22 Aug 09

"HIV denialists" - people who deny that HIV will cause AIDS, have been spreading information about their beliefs on the Internet. There is a cause for concern that such false information will deter...

misinformation online rights truth

started by jaime yeo on 21 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

From a Critical Ethic perspective, Who do patents and copyrights protect? What kind of ideologies underly such a policy? I would argue that it is the capitalist ideologies, individualist ideolo...

MS Word patent copyright

started by Weiye Loh on 20 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by Weiye Loh on 20 Aug 09

issue of misrepresentation defamation online rumours

started by Valerie Oon on 20 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

http://digital.asiaone.com/Digital/News/Story/A1Story20090819-161932.html THE authorities are studying a new way to pull the plug on unauthorised downloads: terminating Internet access of hardcore...

started by Magdaleine on 19 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

Link: http://www.rednano.sg/sfe/pastnews.action?&querystring=online%20defamation&pubid=ST&sort=D Summary: A man who visited and then later robbed a prostitute was chastised a...

defamation online forum

started by guanyou chen on 19 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

online rumours internet spread

started by Joanna Tan on 19 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

The link : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/448207/1/.html Case Summary: Red Nano is a people-search engine which allows others to find you in the public int...

rednano online identity

started by juliet huang on 19 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

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-...

started by Karin Tan on 19 Aug 09 1 follow-up, last by Inosha Wickrama on 21 Aug 09

URL: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c03fd14-b011-11dd-a795-0000779fd18c.html Case Summary: The world of the Internet is slowly becoming dangerous ground to tread on. The onset of viruses, hackers and ...

phishing scams

started by Olivia Chang on 19 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

This is a very interesting topic. Thanks, Weiman! From the replies for this topic, I would say two general questions surfaced. Firstly, is STOMP liable for misinformation? Secondly, is it right for...

started by Weiman Kow on 19 Aug 09 3 follow-ups, last by joanne ye on 26 Aug 09

This article is about online misinformation on social networking sites such as twitter and in this case it particularly pertains to health. It has got to do with swine flu and how people on Twitte...

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started by Satveer on 19 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

Article Link: http://www.asiaone.com/Digital/Features/Story/A1Story20090728-157468.html Summary of Case: With the growing popularity of Twitter.com, a popular micro-blogging website which allo...

started by Chong Yi Ting on 18 Aug 09 no follow-up yet

BALTIMORE, Aug. 12 -- The Maryland State Police issued the following news release: A man who had been making online plans to allegedly have sex with someone he thought was a 13-year old girl, had h...

started by kenneth yang on 18 Aug 09 no follow-up yet