Ethics and Law in New Media

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General information

• INACTIVE AT THE MOMENT - THE 2010 AUTUMN COURSE HAS ENDED, THE NEXT ITERATION WILL LIKELY TAKE PLACE IN AUTUMN TERM 2012 (IN AUTUMN 2011, THE OPEN SOURCE MANAGEMENT IS SCHEDULED INSTEAD OF ELNM).

• The 2010 autumn course starts on September 13!
• Hosted by the IMKE Master Programme, Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University (Estonia)
• Supervised by Kaido Kikkas
• Volume: 5 European Credit points (ECTS)
• TLU course code: IFI7137

NOTE: Everyone is free to enroll and participate, but official credits are only available via TLU. Contact the supervisor during the course for more information.

Announcements

INACTIVE AT THE MOMENT

Course information

See the following:

• General guide to the course
• Why Wikiversity?
• Netiquette guide
• Reading list
• Participants' list
• Wiki teams and topics
• Course Forum WILL BE DEACTIVATED AFTER SOME TIME!

Outline by weeks

THE DATES ARE FROM THE LAST RUN IN AUTUMN 2010!

Note: The course is divided into two distinct halves - the first part deals with ethical issues, the second with legal ones. Every week has two topics which should be studied and discussed. Due to the timetable of TLU studies, there will be a gap of one week in the middle of the course, from October 25 to 31.

Week 1 (September 13-19)

• Topic 1: /Ethics in Turbulent Times
• Topic 2: /Towards the Information Society

Week 2 (September 20-26)

• Topic 3: /The Networked World
• Topic 4: /Censors in Cyberspace

Week 3 (September 27 - October 3)

• Topic 5: /The Big Brother on Menwith Hill
• Topic 6: /Rid the Fools of Their Money: The Online World of Crime and Fraud

Week 4 (October 4-10)

• Topic 7: /The Digital Divide
• Topic 8: /Ubiquitous Computing

Week 5 (October 11-17)

• Topic 9: /The Hacker Ethic in a Networked World
• Topic 10: /Different People, Digital World

Week 6 (October 18-24)

• Topic 11: /From Hacktivism to Cyberwar
• Topic 12: /Social Engineering in Social Networks

MID-COURSE GAP

Week 7 (November 1-7)

• Topic 13: /The Author vs the Information Society
• Topic 14: /The History and Development of Copyright

Week 8 (November 8-14)

• Topic 15: /The Proprietary World: The WIPO Intellectual Property model
• Topic 16: /More WIPO: Contracts and Licenses

Week 9 (November 15-21)

• Topic 17: /The Hacker Approach: Development of Free Licenses
• Topic 18: /The Millennium Bug in the WIPO Model

Week 10 (November 22-28)

• Topic 19: /One Microsoft Way: the World of Proprietary Software
• Topic 20: /The Digital Enforcement

Week 11 (November 29 - December 5)

• Topic 21: /The Uneasy Alliance: Free Software vs Open Source
• Topic 22: /Creative Commons and Free Content Models

Week 12 (December 6-12)

• Topic 23: /In Search of Middle Ground: Hybrid Approaches
• Topic 24: /What About the Future?

Other links

• List of pages under Ethics and Law in New Media
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