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Cyberspace and Society

Internet: A global, interconnected network of networks and single ... Flaming is frowned upon in polite Internet society. The World Wide Web was originally ...

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Cyberspace and Society

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    Slide 1:Cyberspace and Society

    Slide 2: THE INTERNET

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    Slide 5:SOME TERMS Internet: A global, interconnected network of networks and single computers that act as if they were networks. World Wide Web: On the Internet, a loose network of documents of different types connected to each other through hypertext links embedded in the documents themselves. Network: A lot (or even just two) computers linked via cables or phone lines so they can share resources.

    Slide 6:Usenet: An informal, anarchistic network of machines that exchange public messages, also known as news. Usenet newsgroups tend to focus on specific topics. FTP: The acronym for File Transfer Protocol, a standard, agreed upon way for electronic interaction to occur in the transferring of files from one computer to another over the Internet. Telnet: An Internet program with which you can log onto another machine.

    Slide 7:Hacker: Among programmers, a person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal working of a computer system or network. The term is often used in a pejorative context, where cracker would be the correct term. Hackers take joy in accomplishing difficult tasks (hacking out” a working program, for example) and learning more about networking and compute systems. Flame: A strong opinion and/or criticism of something, usually in a deliberately insulting tone, in an electronic mail message or news posting. Flaming is frowned upon in polite Internet society.

    Slide 8:The World Wide Web was originally developed to help physicists at Conseil Europeen pour la Recerche Nucleaire (CERN), which is the Eurpean Particle Physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

    Slide 11:VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES When computer networks link people as well as machines they become social networks. A formal term for computer mediated social networks has been developed: computer-supported social networks (CSSNs). Another term for such networks is virtual communities. (See, Howard Rheingold’s, The Virtual Community).

    Slide 13: CSSNs and WORK

    Slide 15: CSSNs AND COMMUNITY

    Slide 17: THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

    Slide 20: As has been said of technology in general, the Internet is not inherently good or bad. Neither is it neutral.

    Slide 21: THE INTENET AND COLLECTIVE ACTION A STUDY OF “NETVILLE”

    Slide 30:Article No. 4: posted by David Tindall on Fri, Jan. 26, 2001, 10:11 Subject: Cyberspace What do you think have been the impacts of cyberspace on societies and communities? What do you think are the potential impacts in the future? People who leave a message on the bulletin board on these questions, and/or on the responses of other students, by Monday Feb 5th will receive a bonus mark.

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