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Social

Economy

Politics

Internet - Bane or Boon

Bane?

Something that spoils or ruins

Boon?

Something that brings blessing or benefits

Criminals VS Crime-fighters

Criminals

  • identity theft,digital theft (musics & movies), illegal prescription-drug sales, fraud, spamming and hacking.
  • cybercriminals commit crime using Web and can easily get away with it.
  • Internet boom guarantees an unending supply of cybercriminals.

Crime-fighters

  • an organisation to counter and take action against cybercriminals.
  • e.g. : Kroll Ontrack, ICG Inc. , Decision

Strategies & Cyveillance.

  • cybercriminals has developed into a major business opportunity for cybersleuths.

Conclusion

Internet

  • platform for open sharing of information
  • borderless platform that connects everyone

Problems arise

  • provide room for misuse
  • too open space brings conflict of interest

Approach

  • users must be educated to have a sense of responsibility to differentiate what is right and what is wrong

Invasion of Privacy

Past

  • in traditional village or small town, everyone knew everyone else's secrets
  • everyone was still comfortable even their secrets were shared out

Now

  • we don't know who knows about us anymore
  • personal information can leak out easily from the Internet
  • anyone can see our details that we put up on the Internet
  • privacy is about relationship, it is not about information

Intellectual Property Ownership

Musics & Movies

  • freely used by users
  • not acknowledged by users
  • copyrighted
  • Bane
  • with internet - illegal downloading
  • Boon
  • without internet - not widespread

and not popular

Users not aware that it is a wrong doing as it does not physically harm anything and it benefits them.

Internet in Politics

Boon

  • platform for politicians to gain followers
  • government able to reach out to more citizens
  • a tool for politicians to spread their ideology

Bane

  • no one is holding the authority on Internet
  • politicians cannot control what the people see
  • everything politicians do can be easily spreaded and exposed

Political Changes

Election of Barack Obama as President of U.S.

  • Internet as a new medium
  • took advantage of YouTube
  • free advertising
  • videos more effective than television
  • able to re-watch his speech on race

Politicians

  • changed the way they organize supporters, advertise to voters, defend against attacks and communicate with constituents.

Government

  • strengthens connection with his constituents and their connection with the causes they care about

Citizens

  • find past speeches that prove a politician wrong
  • alert their fellow citizens

BUT IF WE CHOOSE TO EXPOSE OUR OWN INFORMATION, THEN WE SHOULD NOT BLAME OTHERS FOR PEEKING INTO OUR LIVES!

  • e.g. : Facebook, Tweeter & Google+
  • Bane
  • terms and conditions that we had to agree in order to gain access
  • oblivious to the exposure of our personal details
  • exposed to lots of advertisers

  • Boon
  • broaden our social circle
  • we can choose to control the exposure of our personal details

Social Networking Sites

Internet Cookies

  • a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website.
  • Bane
  • collects our infomations and shares

it out

  • we do not know how much our information is shared out and

who it is shared with

  • we cannot control it
  • Boon
  • it is convinient as it stores our information for later use
  • website entrepreneurs can learn about their customers' tastes without intruding on their privacy

Companies

Users

digital "buddies" or bots are used as a marketing strategy

Boon

  • gain more potential customers
  • increase clientele
  • saving cost in promoting products
  • virtual access overcomes physical barrier
  • wide range of target audience

Bane

  • negative feedback on companies can be easily spreaded

engaged in conversation with digital "buddies"

Boon

  • able to express their feelings
  • obtain different point of views in certain problems

Bane

  • living in virtual world
  • giving wrong perceptions and ideas in certain problems
  • more susceptible to the advertisements and promotions
  • fall for gimmicks

THANK YOU! =)

Presented by:

1. Sarah Lim Wan-Lin

2. Lee Wei Shiu

3. Hong Jin Yang

Reference

1. Invasion of Privacy, Joshua Quittner

2. Fighting Crime One Computer At A Time,

Christopher S. Steward

3. Web Friend Or Faux, Christine Frey

4. How Obama's Internet Campaign

Changed Politics

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/how-obamas-internet-campaign-changed-politics/

Business & Marketing

Digital "buddies"

  • a software application that is programmed to make friends and small talk
  • interpret what the user is saying and formulates an appropriate response
  • Usage
  • promote companies' products on the Internet
  • some users engaged in conversation with them

Initial focus

  • delivering informations, not making chitchat

After launching

  • discovered that users engaged it in lengthy chats
  • tweaked the software to improve its chat capabilities

INTERNET - BANE OR BOON?

IT IS UP TO OURSELVES TO DECIDE THE OUTCOME! =)

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