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The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov is a book which, in a nutshell, outlines the dangers of true internet freedom. In the first chapter he introduces the cyber-utopians: people who believe that the internet will bring peace, prosperity and enforce democracy wherever it occurs. He also points out that they are very wrong using the twitter riots in Iran as an example, he did this by showing that for the most part, the twitter riots were overhyped and that everyone had jumped on the bandwagon from the beginning. Soon enough more attention had been brought to the use of twitter than, indeed, the riots themselves.
the ideas in this book heavily correspond to people and machines in particular, this is because of the twitter sub culture or the way we use and interact on twitter and the social memes associated. Because of the way Twitter and many other social networks work, the general public sometimes gets the wrong idea. Another issue is the innate assumption that “I read it on [insert social network here], it MUST be true!” this leads us to our next issue with authenticity:
The assumption that something is correct with no evidence, purely because everyone else assumes it is correct. This is called the bandwagon and is actually a common technique used in propaganda. As Morozov stated repeatedly in his book, this is exactly what happened with the so called “Twitter revolution” in Iran and that several influential bloggers and columnists stated that “the revolution in Iran would never have happened without Twitter” or something to that extent. Morozov Argues that “if a tree falls in a forest and everyone tweets about it, it might not be the tweets that moved it” and that the revolution would have happened regardless. A very valid point, ignored by the “utopians” and other denizens of the internet. A more recent example of the bandwagon hype is Kony 2012
I am reading the pirates Dilemma. It is about the Piracy of thing such as games music and movies. The book starts of by talking about the punk fad back in the day. He seems to relate this to piracy by saying that when one person starts something a large amount of people will follow. He talks about the first punk band ever and how it started a revolution. He talked about how his hair was a huge part of it and how people wanted something to rebel with so they did this i think what he is implying is that the harder they push for piracy the more people will want to do it. Just like with Punk people hated it but now everyone understands that was a huge part of music so it could evolve.
When we received this assignment i thought that the novel i got would be boring, even though it looked as if it was one of the best in the choices. This novel starts off slow and it talks the content of the Internet cannot be separated from the medium of the Internet, in true McLuhan fashion and then it goes on to talk about the Internet (and computers generally) exerts influences upon its users which affect how our minds work. So far this novel has a modern tone to it. it seems to talk about how the internet is influencing out way of thinking. it also goes on talk about this difference between what people used to use for a letter or a sense of communication which was a typewriter and it compares it to what we use now, like internet as a way of communication. instead of sending posts, we talk to each other online and talk to each other through emails. The novel is making a comparison between what people used to use to send things or communicate and what we use now. i did not think that this novel would have been so interesting as it has been so far. i thought that it was going to be a boring novel, even though it is still a slow novel. even though it does not have a story line and just information, it still seems to be slow and quiet boring at parts. The novel goes on to talk about how the content of our thoughts are completely altered by phones and computers, but the structure of our brains — our ability to have certain kinds of thoughts and experiences.
The cover page of the book
“The end of privacy as we know it.” when I started to read this book, I thought it was going to be so boring because the book’s first sentence is “In the words of the poem, “Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there” after I starts to read through, I find it interesting. In this book, the author talks about the effects of new digital technologies on our own privacy. One interesting point was “is privacy a private good or a public good?” according to the author there are 4 privacies;
1st one is the “the usual understanding of privacy is to do with a subjects control of information about him or herself.
2nd one is “it is not an unalloyed good, although much privacy discourse assumes it is.
3rd one is ” privacy related dilemma is that it benefits different agents. Meaning, “if you wish something you do to be unknown to the rest of society, then you are the beneficiary of your privacy.”
4thly “privacy is very similar to a number of other concepts, and is hard to disentangle. For instance, there are strong connections between privacy and secrecy but we should not confuse them. A state secret is secret but not private ; one’s clothes are private but not secret. Privacy often carries with it a notion of choice . one chooses to be private, whereas one does not usually choose to be lonely.” for all of these reasons we are wary of defining the term privacy because it is too hard and nearly impossible to give necessary and sufficient conditions especially when technology is changing so fast.
I think that it’s a great opportunity to read this book because this book have some really good real life situations about privacy. It’s not just talking about boring privacy. It also connects with other IT systems such as Databases. So this is a great book for our Paper 2 preparation.
So far i’m enjoying this book and i’m looking forward to read more and post about it.
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The German Privacy Foundation Crypto Stick – How & Why It Is More Secure
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Dropbox Adds Key Feature That Supposedly Made Megaupload Illegal: Link To Download | Techdirt
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Iran Cracks US Stealth Spy Drone’s Secrets, Shows Proof | Digg Technology
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TV-based botnets? DoS attacks on your fridge? More plausible than you think | Digg Technology
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Reading all the privacy policies you “agree” to would take a month per year – Boing Boing
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How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did – Forbes
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Hacktivists Anonymous claim to have taken down Home Office website | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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Antitrust and ebooks: regulators miss the big DRM lock-in picture – Boing Boing
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Apple, publishers accused of price-fixing ebooks – Boing Boing
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AI robot: how machine intelligence is evolving | Technology | The Observer
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Email surveillance plans face Lib Dem rebellion | World news | The Guardian
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I hope you are enjoying your Spring Break – but just a quick reminder from our last class there is some work to be done.
- Remember to finish the Gift of Fire questions as outlined – 2.7,2.8,2.9,2.10,2.28
- Remember that you should be thinking through your project – and starting to think and play around with the skills you might need. Note after the Spring Break you will need to interview and video this interview – so your client may push you in other directions.
- Book reading assignment – you should be aiming for 25% of the book to be read and your first blog post (by end of the holiday) reviewing those pages and initial arguments. Remember as always to write the post so that anyone coming to read your blog post will understand the content – and of course use the ITGS triangle, pictures and quotes!
Well that’s it for the ‘so-called’ holiday – I have also popped the brainstorm that we had regarding Paper 2 exam assignment. Remember C and D both hold 8 marks and so need to reflect this in their level of depth and thought. Think that you need to evaluate using the correct words to show the examiner you are ‘weighing up’ the issues. At least three social and ethical issues should be evaluated – to talk around the problems and come to conclusions as to which is the route and the main issue and problem to solve.
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