Take-Home Test Posted Online: Monday, April 4, 2022 at 12:30pm
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COMN 2500: Final Test Review
Defining surveillance
Dataveillance
Data collection, management, use/analysis, and sharing
Benefits/drawbacks of surveillance
Signals intelligence
Packet-switched communication
IXmaps project and boomerang routing
Constitutional “black holes”
Network sovereignty (Clement network sovereignty reading)
Data localization
Internet exchange point
Elements of Big Data practice
Data-driven eligibility decisions
Privacy definitions and the challenge of definition
Digital policy literacy
Alan Westin (Privacy fundamentalist, pragmatist and unconcerned)
Privacy protective behaviours
Notice policy
“Biggest lie on the internet” study (Obar et al. reading)
The clickwrap and notice policy
The “nothing to hide” argument (Solove reading)
Problems with the “nothing to hide” argument (Solove reading)
You click you lie, you use you lie
Why don’t we read policies?
The political economy conceptPolitical economy of the media
Transparency paradox
Political economy of the clickwrap (Obar et al. reading)
Clickwraps and online consent
“Dark Patterns” (Mathur et al. reading)
User interface and user experience
“Dark Pattern” categories and types
Technologies of scarcity and abundance
Networked information economy (Benkler reading)
Commons-based peer production
Intellectual property
Copyright
Digital commons
Open source concept
Open source motivations (Hars and Ou reading)
Open source ideology
Open access
Creative Commons License (web reading)
The ‘open internet’
What is a wiki?
What is Wikipedia?
What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia and the “problems of democracy”
Comparing encyclopedias (experts and amateurs)
Wikipedia and “The Iron Law” (Konieczny reading)
Wikipedia five pillars
Wikipedia neutrality policy (Web reading)
Wikipedia verifiability policy (Web reading)
Wikipedia notability policy
Content and conduct policy on Wikipedia
Consensus on Wikipedia
Wikipedia user access levels
Deletionism and inclusionism (Jemielniak reading)
Media effects
Direct effects theory
Indirect effects theory
Social media and spiral of silence theory (Hampton reading)
Please let me know if you have any questions.
