Review and Social Issues (if time)

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Review and Social Issues (if time)

• 6 December

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Final Exam Coverage

• Classroom presentations
• Mine
• Students
• Readings
• External Speakers

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Final Exam

• Largest question privacy.
• Why people should be worried about privacy
• Several different SUPPORTED arguments
• Questions on presentations
• What is the controversy?
• 2 or 3 arguments for each side
• Can NOT do your own topic
• Additional questions
• Scenarios (a la midterm)
• General, large principles

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Cheat Sheet

• Expanded to 2 pages
• Specific topics
• Identify controversies and arguments
• Capture enough detail of specifics for concrete
  essays
• General topics
• Capture the big items

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Group exercise

• What lessons have you learned?
• Write full sentences until I tell you to stop.
• Examples
• Code can affect behavior as much as possibly
  more than laws. (Lessig)
• We are a culture of simulation, which can often
  cause problems. (Turkle)
• Not all gamers who experience compulsive internet
  use came to the game with psychological problems.
  (Ward)
• We cannot always predict the effects of a new
  technology, but that doesnt mean that we
  shouldnt try. (Kling)

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Topics

• Morality Theory
• How computers work
• Reliability issues
• Enabling technologies
• eGovernment
• eInformation
• Privacy
• Social issues

• Digital divide
• Genetics and privacy
• Games
• Digital rights
• Anti-trust
• eVoting
• Workplace
• Medicine

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Class Statements

• Games can restrict or enhance social interaction
  for people with phobias.
• Enabling technologies use computers to help
  people with disabilities.
• Even though Internet voting is very convenient,
  people are worried about hacking and security.
• Employer access to genetic information can cause
  discrimination in the workplace.
• Privacy is becoming an increasing concern due to
  the growing number of online databases and
  personal info online.
• Digital divide is the gap that exists in regards
  to computer use between races and socio-economic
  groups.
• Games can be so addictive to cause people to drop
  out of school they can also do significant good
  and teach people.

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Class Statements (cont.)

• Digital divide is not limited to third-world
  countries.
• E-voting will increase participation in our
  generation.
• Anti-trust legal cases must rely on both
  technology experts and legal experts.
• Use of e-government may imply a computer literacy
  test.

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Social Issues

• Social networking
• Multiple personae
• User as consumer
• Internet addiction

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Social Networking
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6 Degrees of Separation the Legend

• Stanley Milgram (Harvard) 1967
• asked each of several volunteers in the Midwest
  to get a letter to a stranger in Boston
• Could send a letter only to someone they knew
• Median number of intermediaries was six
• Hence six degrees of separation

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6 Degrees of Separation the Reality

• Milgram experiment
• Initial experimant only 3 of 60 letters (5)
  made it
• Later experiments only achieved 30
• First proposed in a 1929 short story
• Chains by Karinthy Frigyes

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Pretending to be someone else
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Multiple personae and avatars

• Having multiple personalities in the real world
  is considered an illness
• Is it okay in cyberspace?
• Whats the difference?
• Awareness
• Choice of focus
• Second Life

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Exploring Personailty Options

• Get control of your life
• Try new techniques
• Opportunities that you would not otherwise have
• How is this different from lying?
• Pretending that you are someone that you are not

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Internet Addiction

• Is it real?
• What is an addiction?
• Discussions
• Yee
• Internet Addiction Center