Ethics and Law in New Media

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General information

• The course is INACTIVE (last run in Autumn 2014). It is unclear whether the course will be run again or not - meanwhile, the material from the last time is presented here in the hopes of being useful to someone.
• The course was hosted by the Institute of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University (Estonia)
• Supervised by Kaido Kikkas
• Volume: 5 European Credit points (ECTS)
• TLU course code (likely invalid by now): IFI7137

Announcements

None

Course information

See the following:

• General guide to the course
• Why Wikiversity?
• Netiquette guide
• Some considerations for live chat
• Reading list
• Participants' list
• Wiki teams and topics
• [Course Forum]

Outline by weeks

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.

Week 1

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

Week 2

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

Week 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

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

Week 5

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

Week 6

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

Week 7

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

Week 8

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

Week 9

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

Week 10

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

Week 11

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

Week 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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