User:Vtaylor/Computers and Society/CIS2 Winter 2020/Group 2

GROUP 2 - Contributors

for each person, next to your name, provide a link to your personal lists on your own WikiEducator user page


 * Omair Ajaz https://wikieducator.org/User:AnimationRex#Introductions
 * Megan Burton
 * Faith Gibson https://wikieducator.org/User:Faithgbsn/GroupProjectPersonalLinks
 * Jaymen Luther
 * Mrinal Minglani
 * Emmanuel Monteon https://wikieducator.org/User:Monteon96#Anytime.2C_Anywhere
 * Soyoung Park
 * Jorge Ramirez https://wikieducator.org/User:JorgeRamirez97
 * Evan Roland https://wikieducator.org/User:Evan.roland#Introductions
 * Sohrob Rouhani https://wikieducator.org/User:SohrobR#Individual_Project
 * Yohann Tolentino

GROUP 2 - Resources


 * the links in bold are the "best" resources

1. Introductions


https://forum.librivox.org (important volunteer oppurtunity)

This link is for a website that allows you to volunteer your hours online. This company "LibriVox" is incredibly helpful to those with disabilities, dealing with sight. They get books and stories from the public domain and convert them into audio books. These audio books are available to the world for free hence the need for volunteers. If somebody has an hour or two of free time, reading a book to a microphone for the blind community out there would be very helpful.

https://translatorswithoutborders.org/volunteer/

This link is a website for volunteering opportunities for translators. Translators are integral to helping the world understand and get to know more about each other. They are an important mouth piece for those that don't understand an different language. This site is very beneficial to those that need specific medical texts, or even just news in general, translated to their language. This is extremely important in California right now due to covid-19, so please spread the news to those who won't understand social distancing procedures.

== 2. Privacy and Freedom of Speech ==

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does-0

The Fourth amendment is the perfect way to understand online privacy and the right's every american. The fourth amendment states that searches and seizures without a warrant are unreasonable, and also just straight illegal. However in our new technological age, the laws surrounding your online privacy have become increasingly more lax.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/10/02/228134269/your-digital-trail-does-the-fourth-amendment-protect-us (tells us how the government is finding ways to get your private information)

This secondary link tells us that the stuff we share with others is also privy to the government. "Since the 1960s and 1970s, the Supreme Court and other courts have issued a series of rulings declaring that the government does not need a search warrant to obtain your personal documents if you have already shared them with somebody else." So this can include a lot of things, such as credit card info, and what you buy on a daily basis. Since you share this information with credit card companies and banks you are therefore at risk of the government looking through your history. Our privacy is being breached due to a loophole in a law and that really needs to change.

== 3. Intellectual Property ==

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/ (definition of fair use important for understanding intellectual property)

I think the discussion of fair use is integral to understanding the concept of intellectual property. Determining what you can make or say about a certain piece of content is the goal of fair use. Making sure nobody can directly copy your work, while maintaining a way to properly comment or criticize the work is a hard balance to maintain. While it is incredibly important to protect a creators ideas, it doesn't help the consumer get a full understanding of the product, or content they are being provided. This law is set up so people can create things based off of others content, without getting copyright claimed and without their content on the subject being removed however with no hard set rules it's incredibly hard to tell. What content is fair use and what content is copyright?

 DCMA - What Is, Help with takdown… https://www.dmca.com/ -  The website, DCMA.com is a primary resource for handling copyright infringement on the web. The front page provides an overview of what DCMA is, and what the organization does to help with copyright infringement takedowns. Posted to Intellectual Property Keywords discussion by Evan Roland  I chose this article/site because it provides good information on what DCMA is about and how the organization can help with copyright infringement online. 

== 4. Crime ==

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/compcrim.htm

This article describes the act of computer crime. Computer crime is committed by people who illegally browses or steals a person or company's personal information. Some examples of computer crime, are copyright violation, blackmail towards a business or person, or just straight leaking somebodies personal information. Their are many different ways people commit these crimes and many different reasons why. Below is my favorite example of computer crime being committed for a good cause.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/08/aaron-swarts-work-internets-own-boy (important example of crime in computers)

While there is a larger idea behind crime, this specific example of civil disobedience is an important moment in the history of computer crime. Aaron Swartz was a young man who was a genius in the computer industry. He was a founder of reddit, an important political activist, and a writer. He decided to hack MIT and take articles and provide them to the general public. However the program he made to take the information worked almost too well and he ended up stealing millions of individual articles and resources and was quickly caught in the act. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison for this specific act. He ended up committing suicide before he could end up in jail. His goals in life for committing these crimes was to make the world a better place, share knowledge and expose corruption from where he saw it. Defending digital rights has improved greatly because of him. These unjust laws he saw fit to break have already begun reform.

== 5. Employment, Education and Entertainment ==

http://www.gamesforchange.org/game/hellblade-senuas-sacrifice/(video game that explains mental health)

This link was my favorite for week 5 because it a piece of entertainment that has the ability to educate people on mental health. I've also played and completed the game in the environment they recommend to play it in and it truly is capable of entertaining while properly teaching you what it's like to be in the shoes of someone who has schizophrenia.

http://paleoportal.org/index.php

This link I chose when we looked into various different types of e-books. I thought this assignment was very cool because I've never seen so many free resources available before and I'm happy to have a whole new free and extensive resource to use and explore.

== 6. Midterm - Grand Challenges ==

RAINMAKER - Solar and Wind Powered Generators/ Air-to-Water Units https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=kniBIYML4IA&feature=emb_logo  (Vital humanitarian project) This ingenious technology converts wind energy into both power and water. It condenses water from the air for potable water as well as creating electriciy from the wind.  Posted to the CIS 2 Grand Challenges midterm page by Molly Cavaness 

How the Latest Technologies Help Improve Literacy Skills https://proliteracy.org/Blogs/Article/399/How-the-Latest-Technologies-Help-Improve-Literacy-Skills  The article above describes the concepts of Gamification, extended access to educational resources, benefits of blogging to promote engagement, and improved collaboration and communication.  Posted to the CIS 2 Grand Challenges midterm page by Evan Roland 

== 7. Evaluating and Controlling Technology ==

The internet without Net Neutrality isn’t really the internet. https://www.freepress.net/issues/free-open-internet/net-neutrality (Important to keep the internet uncensored as we have known it in the U.S.) This topic is crucial to ensuring the internet is not controlled in ways that are detrimental to society. The author does a really good job of explaining why Net Neutrality is important, exposes some misunderstandings about it, and via links to more articles, provides ideas for how people can get involved if they are interested.  Posted to Evaluating and Controlling Technology Keywords by Emmanuel Monteon  <BR>

The Tech Worker Resistance IRL - Online Life Is Real Life (by Mozilla) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irl-online-life-is-real-life/id1247652431?i=1000445540692 <BR> Listening to this podcast you can see how some people view topics like the Uber strikes and it is surprising how little people care for contract workers. Given that the largest growing type of job is contract work, people should learn to question these things before it leads to a strange dystopian future.<BR> <BR>

== 8. Risks, Failures and Responsibilities ==

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51526173

This article goes over a nasty IT failure that occurred at Heathrow airport in England. It explains how this could've been avoided if more money was put into the IT department and cybersecurity in general.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-02-23/reliability-of-pricey-new-voting-machines-questioned

This article talks about the risk of using online voting machines and how some that aren't supposed to be connected online still have ways that they can be. This kind of topic makes people question the reliability of their own government and if we really do live in a democracy.

https://www.techradar.com/news/ethics-and-vpn-the-industry-needs-to-aim-higher(risk of losing online privacy)

This article I find to be the most important for week 8 because I personally use a VPN every now and then and I find that they are incredibly important for your online protection. Trying to ban VPNs would actually cause massive cybersecurity problems later in the future.

== 9. Anytime, Anywhere ==

https://gizmodo.com/maybe-microsofts-xbox-chief-didnt-say-the-stupidest-thi-1841494677

I think this article really matches the topic of the week because cloud gaming has become the new entry into the gaming market and it has shows signs of some true potential. I believe that if this is improved on then in the next decade it might be a rival for mobile gaming both in quality and in profit.

https://www.waze.com/(social media GPS app)

This link is the best for week 9 for me because it is an app I use all the time to let me know how to get to a location, how long, how much traffic there will be, and where I can park once I get there. For me, using this app truly gives me the sense of being able to go anywhere at anytime now.

https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken#t-488238

This Ted Talk was very nice for me to watch since Jack Horner is a man that has inspired my childhood obsession of dinosaurs and animals. It is nice to know that I have access to discussions and podcasts like this one whenever I want since it is usually the easiest way for me to learn new things.

== 10. Technology Advances, Social Trends ==

https://www.bcg.com/publications/2020/quantum-advantage-fighting-climate-change.aspx

This article I picked because I started this class with an interest in quantum computing and I am ending it with asking how we can use it to improve everything in our lives. I think advances in quantum thinking in general will only lead to greater advances in tech, but could also lead to a bigger social divide.

https://stateofthestates.educationsuperhighway.org/#future

This article I think is important because it shows how more and more schools in the US have access to the internet. This could gives kids access to more accessible and cheaper tools to help them learn in school. It also helps in times like we are living in now.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear-energy-storage-advanced-reactor-developers-trying-to-expand-nuclea/573570/(technology development that needs more social awareness)

I think this article is my best for week 10 because I'm a firm believer that nuclear is apart of our future if we want to think in terms of clean thinking. With more focus on safer reactors, it's only the image that the term 'nuclear' has created that needs to be fixed now.