Project Log

Big Victory in Atlantic v. Howell: Court Rejects RIAA "making Available" Theory:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/big-victory-atlantic-v-howell-court...

We met during class time on Monday March 9.  We talked about our resources and the progress on the completion of our research summaries as well as decided that we would use MLA formatting for citing the white paper resources.  We decided to meet on Thursday at 5PM in the computer lab where class is held to begin to put together the rough draft of our white paper.  The goal for the next meeting is roughly draft the white paper and begin to put together visuals and make arrangement decisions.

I did a more detailed research and wrote a rough draft of my section.

I have done further research on my topic and put together a summary of my research topic (the gradual stepdown from internet censorship and the reaction of the Chinese government and population to this approach), which is supposed to be completed by class today.  This is a very rough draft and further research will help to aid in providing a more in depth description of how the people and government might react in terms of psychological studies as well as compared to the post-communist regime of Russia.  I have been unable to get to the library to look at might print resources but

I turned in the sources I was responsible for on time at the group meeting on Friday. Although it can be argued that some of these sources are somewhat dated, I would counter that the ideas and principles presented are still sound even if the specific implimentation is not In the context of this white paper, specifics as to the particular implimentation of our solutions will have to be fleshed out as pertaining to Purdue's theoretical wiki anyway. Those sources are as follows:

I have spent a great deal of time researching net neutrality in a legal context. My research is focused on the legislative issues regarding net neutrality in the United States. Accordingly, my research seeks to find out if net censorship conflicts with American laws and is unconstitutional, or whether net censorship is perfectly within the boundaries of American laws. I hope to have the main body of my research completed by the end of next week.

This week I have dedicated the majority of my time to researching issues of net neutrality. The main component of my research has been the social impact and the social issues associated with NN. I have taken this to mean the affects on human action and personal freedoms as they pertain to an individuals doings. I want to focus this research on the social impact as it is seen by the governement to ensure that my research is most pointed for the white paper. I hope to have a skeleton draft of my section of the paper done by wednesday.

-Who:  Ansbaugh, Davitt, Kreul, Simpson

-When:  Friday, 3/6/09

-Where:  ENGL421 classroom

-Goal:  discuss sources

-Topics discussed:  what sources we have used, what else we are looking for, next step once research is complete

-Decisions made:  none

I have gotten pretty far on my research this week, finding a lot of information about the history of wikis.

- first wiki site, WikiWiki, created by Ward Cunningham in the 1990s

- "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian

(http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLi...)

I have continued to do research about the usage of facebook and privacy settings.  I found several informative articles on Purdue's databases.  Much of my research has shown that between 40 and 50% of employers are using facebook to screen employees.  Some are questioning the ethics of this and whether this violates the privacy of facebook users who are potential employees.