Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Cyber Bullying

Cyber bullying is to bully an individual mentally or physically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening purpose over the internet. We can prevent cyber bullying by raising awareness, counselling and talking out. According to the case of Audrie Pott, "Collaborating with our parents, students, staff and community, we will continue to work diligently to maintain a positive climate at our high schools based on respect, responsibility, and open communication that discourages cyber bullying and inappropriate conduct," Mistele said. I agree with Mistele that in the cases of cyber bullying it helps if we maintain a positive climate especially in high schools because teenagers are getting more cyber bullied these days because of the more use of social media websites. 


Reference :

!function(d, ALYSSA NEWCOMB Alyssa Newcomb More from Alyssa » Digital Reporter Follow @AlyssaNewcomb. "School District Denies Audrie Pott Reported Bullying After Family Claims Negligence." ABC News. ABC News Network, 17 Apr. 2013. Web. 26 Nov. 2013. <http://abcnews.go.com/US/audrie-potts-family-school-negligent-handling-teens-suicide/story?id=18978305>.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Legal and Ethical Issues

Copyright vs. Legal Access

During the case of Mr.Swartz, On one side were activists like Mr. Swartz and advocacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Students for Free Culture. On the other were governments and corporations that argued that some information must be kept private for security or commercial reasons.I think it should be free for the music because it doesn't have any thing private or confidential but when it comes to movies I think they shouldn't be free since the directors spend so much money on it. But if we go back to the case, I agree with both sides arguments that it should be free but there has to be some limitations because of the security.


Citation:

Cohen, Noam. "A Data Crusader, a Defendant and Now, a Cause." Www.nytimes.com. The New York Times, 13 Jan. 2013. Web. 12 Nov. 2013. <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/technology/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-and-now-a-cause.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&smid=tw-nytimes&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1384288898-khwBQd9z9MYXxSN5MIXO2Q>.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Privacy and Internet Cite

According to The Atlantic Wire, "People still retain copyright to photos that they post on Facebook." Mark Zuckerberg's sister's picture went leaked through online cite even though there are facebook privacy setting. This shows that there is no such thing as privacy on the internet related cites.

According to our fourth Amendment, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." However, since the internet cites are world wide and easily accessable, there is no such thing as privacy and security online. According to the Article of Interformation Privacy, it's either the person have privacy or either they have security.  It's really difficult to have both at the same time because of the worldwide use of internet. 


Citation:

Greenfield, Rebecca. "Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private." The Atlantic Wire. N.p., 26 Dec. 2012. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. <http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/facebook-privacy-so-confusing-even-zuckerberg-family-photo-isnt-private/60313/>.

Reed, Daniel. "Communications of the ACM." Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations. N.p., 11 May 2011. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. <http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/108232-information-privacy-changing-norms-and-expectations/fulltext>.

Monday, October 21, 2013

Creativity and Social Media

 Creativity and Social Media



 Using droppelme.com, I made this avatar because I was trying download second life in my laptop and it wasn't working perfectly. But I used background and brightness elements for this avatar and it was fun creating it. droppelme.com is the easiest way to create an avatar for the virtual world.


http://www.doppelme.com/create/wardrobe.asp?type=background&cat=doppelme

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Social Media

 Social Networking Websites
 I love social networking websites.
 I am on 6 different social Networking websites listed below:
  • facebook
  • orkut
  • google plus
  • twitter
  • instagram
  • hi5
I would prefer facebook and instagram the most because those are the websites are pretty famous and more preferable these days. My all friends prefer to keep in contact with facebook plus it's easily accessible.

A virtual world is a group online community which allows users to interact with one another and use and create objects.

"New media is a general term covering nontraditional ways of delivering information." (Haynes) Using the new media, it became easier to share or deliver information to other users.

"Yahoo plans to deploy its personalization technology and search infrastructure to Tumblr, which should help users find relevant content more easily." (Scheroeder) In the future, I would like to see tumblr as a part of my virtual world because I love reading quotes and I always find the best  quotes on tumblr.



Citation:
Haynes A. A. and Pitts, B. (January 2009), “Making an Impression: New Media in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaigns," PS: Political Science and Politics 42:1, pp. 53-58. 

Scheroeder, Stan. "Mashable." Mashable. Yahoo, 30 May 2013|. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. <http://mashable.com/2013/05/20/yahoo-officially-acquires-tumblr-promises-not-to-screw-it-up/>.


World Wide Web




 FUTURE OF WORLD WIDE WEB

 Open access to academic papers will eventually defeat publishers who seek to lock scholarly findings behind paywalls. (Sir) I agree with founder of world wide web because we, as a student, pay a lot of money to subscribe the academic journals. So In the future, I would like to see they make it available for us online.


THE CLOUD

"The Cloud" is a storage space that Amazon rented from Internet Giant. (CHEN)
 Cloud computing derived from drawings of Internet as a cloud. Cloud is a metaphor for the Internet. (ppt)
Clouds can be accessed by PC, laptops and smartphones.




Citation:

 Sir Tim Berners-Lee. "World Wide Web Creator Sees Open Access Future for Academic publishing." The Conversation. The Conversation Media Group, 29 Jan. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2013.
http://theconversation.com/world-wide-web-creator-sees-open-access-future-for-academic-publishing-11837

CHEN, BRIAN X. "‘The Cloud’ Challenges Amazon." The New York Times, 26 Dec. 2012. Web.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Parisha Patel
September 17, 2013
Computer and Society 100

My Introduction:
School Year: Sophomore
Major: IT and Computer Security
Hobbies: Dancing, Event Management, Design Websites