Ethics and Law in New Media

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Contents 1 General information 2 Announcements 3 Course information 4 Outline by weeks 4.1 Week 1 (September 28 - October 4) 4.2 Week 2 (October 5-11) 4.3 Week 3 (October 12-18) 4.4 Week 4 (October 19-25) 4.5 Week 5 (October 26 - November 1) 4.6 Week 6 (November 2-8) 4.7 Week 7 (November 9-15) 4.8 Week 8 (November 16-22) 4.9 Week 9 (November 23-29) 4.10 Week 10 (November 30 - December 6) 4.11 Week 11 (December 7-13) 4.12 Week 12 (December 14-20) 5 Other links

[edit] General information

• THE 2009 AUTUMN COURSE HAS ENDED. WE WILL HOPEFULLY START ANOTHER ROUND IN SEPTEMBER 2010.
• 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: IFI7145
• Currently running: September-December 2009 (12 weeks)

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.

[edit] Announcements

• Sunday, October 25 - the Nabble site used for our forum seems to have problems. Due to this, forum posting deadlines will be extended until problems are solved there!
• Due to the official IMKE course programmes being still under revision, all the deadlines at this course are not legally binding during the three first weeks. After this, the new programme will be applied which mandates a little more strict regimen. Exceptions ARE possible after that, but must be discussed on case basis.

• Due to the slowish start, the deadline for forming teams got extended for a week and is now October 19 (see also the previous announcement).

• Joining the course is possible until the end of the Week 3 (October 18). Please contact the supervisor.

[edit] Course information

See the following:

• General guide to the course
• Why Wikiversity?
• Netiquette guide
• Reading list
• Participants' list
• Wiki teams and topics
• Course Forum

[edit] 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.

[edit] Week 1 (September 28 - October 4)

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

[edit] Week 2 (October 5-11)

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

[edit] Week 3 (October 12-18)

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

[edit] Week 4 (October 19-25)

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

[edit] Week 5 (October 26 - November 1)

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

[edit] Week 6 (November 2-8)

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

[edit] Week 7 (November 9-15)

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

[edit] Week 8 (November 16-22)

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

[edit] Week 9 (November 23-29)

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

[edit] Week 10 (November 30 - December 6)

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

[edit] Week 11 (December 7-13)

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

[edit] Week 12 (December 14-20)

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

[edit] Other links

• List of pages under Ethics and Law in New Media
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