W9: Internet Crime

This week, we firstly continued the discussion of “Internet privacy” and compared and contrast to the perception of digital natives and digital immigrants. The formers seemed to understand the the impact of Internet and social networking but they were still can’t be apart from it. The later, however, realized the potential risks so that they were afraid of releasing too much personal information on the web in case the fact that the access of personal information will disturb their original life style. As for me, Internet privacy was seen as a necessary evil because the communication among people in this mobile age relied heavily on Internet. In the age of “big data”, people will keep uploading the relevant, personal, and related information to the long-distance server to show predictable favorably results, which improve your using experience. I used the analogy, we are naked but we still face it, to describe this situation.

Besides, other classmates’s diverse answers were also appealing and interesting. Some people regarded the privacy issue as the limitation of Internet, which was the voluntary work to share to everyone. Another people stated that is is the price of being famous. Still the others expressed their concerns of “where the trusts come from”. This discussion triggered students in this class to think further more about the the possible influences on Internet privacy.

After that, we watched the trailer of the Trument show, which is an old American social sci-fi film. The movie is about the life of Truman Burbank who is living in a virtual reality show on the television, but he didn’t know about it. Connecting the movie to the Internet privacy, we can easily see some similarities and difference on this issue. The world we’re living in is a transparent virtual community like the world of Truman’s so that people can easily find information needed on the Internet. Yet, the main difference is on people’s  awareness of the impact of information usage. Trument in the very beginning didn’t know that he was living in a virtual reality show, and he wash;t conscious of how people are looking at him. Rather, for digital natives, we understander the way how information is transited and transformed; therefore, we have limitation of information spread on the Internet. For example, we will not spread our credit card ID on the Internet for fear of the misuse of the financial account. In addition, we talked about people’s concern of Internet privacy but pitifully, I was handling some technical problem at that time so I didn’t catch much.

We ended the class by beginning a new topic called Internet crime.

W8: Internet Privacy

Learning log:

In this week, we first discussed previous written assignments. Patty pointed out that moist of students' written work didn't cite their reference. Therefore, we talked about what is "cite", and created a vocabulary list, including citation, reference, origin, and source. Before long, we defined the word "cite" as   "to tell your readers where your idea comes from by pasting selected information like author, link, title, or published year". For me, citation has been an instinct for I've been trained in academic writing and know the importance (avoid plagiarism) and the reason (convince your readers your information is reliable) that we have to cite. In the following section, we continued the discussion of "internet relationship". First of all, we looked at two similar pictures of which were the connection of computers and humans, and Patty asked us to compare and contrast the pictures for following dialogue. Much to Patty's amazement, she found that most of the students didn't see the difference because students nowadays considered computer networking to be part of their lives, which is as similar as people's networking. She thought this situation might refer to the generation gap, that is, digital natives didn't separate the real world and virtual world, while for digital immigrants they are totally different. In addition to the virtual/real world, we also mentioned the theory of Gardner, which is multiple intelligence, referring to eight abilities that people own in terms of musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. In the end, we talked about the topic of the week-- Internet Privacy. Since we don't have too much background knowledge of Internet privacy, we simply found some definition on the net. For the assignment, we need to complete the task of "Internet privacy", and dig out its concern, risks, levels and law. 

Weekly Note:

1. Explain three kinds of assignment. Requirement

2. Discuss: what is citation?

Citation is the reference of published work or unpublished resources. 

- Patty asked many students what is citation/reference/origin/source. (Jay, Jasimine, Nita)

- You should cite the source online. 

- cite: to tell your readers where your idea comes from by pasting selected information like author, link, title, or published year

How to cite?

Use APA style to 

Psychology. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved October 14, 2009, from

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

- the vocabulary list: citation/reference/origin/source

Patty told us the importance and reasons why we have to cite.

- importance: avoid plagiarism

- why: convince your readers your information is reliable

 

3. Continue the discussion "internet relationship" since Week 6 3/27

- picture discussion: the webs are linking together

- the way they are linking are the same but the first picture refers to computers, the second picture refer to human 

Natives: 

- People's relationship = computer's relationship

--> 

Immigrants

- People's relationship --> real world

     --> interpersonal relationship

- v.s.

- computer's relationship --> virtual world

 --> Internet relationship (discussed in week 6): interpersonal relationship (communication between people)

- An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association/acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring. 

- bridging: social networking websites 

Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria:[2] musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. 

- concern: a) native: not concern b) my care: privacy, security 

Week 8: Internet privacy

what

concern

risk

law/regulation/policy

level (setting)

Privacy is something you don't want other know. 

How to set your privacy on google plus?

Written work:

1. Internet relationship v.s. interpersonal relationship

2. Discuss on privacy

3. What is/are your privacy policy/policies on social networking sites?

4. What is the rationale behind your privacy policy/policies?