COMN 2500 Final Take-Home Test Review 2022

Take-Home Test Posted Online: Monday, April 4, 2022 at 12:30pm

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Test Format: Long-answer questions, completed in the Word document provided

COMN 2500: Final Test Review

Defining surveillance

Dataveillance

Data collection, management, use/analysis, and sharing

Benefits/drawbacks of surveillance

Signals intelligence

Packet-switched communication

IXmaps project and boomerang routing

Constitutional “black holes”

Network sovereignty (Clement network sovereignty reading)

Data localization

Internet exchange point

Elements of Big Data practice

Data-driven eligibility decisions

Privacy definitions and the challenge of definition

Digital policy literacy

Alan Westin (Privacy fundamentalist, pragmatist and unconcerned)

Privacy protective behaviours

Notice policy

“Biggest lie on the internet” study (Obar et al. reading)

The clickwrap and notice policy

The “nothing to hide” argument (Solove reading)

Problems with the “nothing to hide” argument (Solove reading)

You click you lie, you use you lie

Why don’t we read policies?

The political economy conceptPolitical economy of the media

Transparency paradox

Political economy of the clickwrap (Obar et al. reading)

Clickwraps and online consent

“Dark Patterns” (Mathur et al. reading)

User interface and user experience

“Dark Pattern” categories and types

Technologies of scarcity and abundance

Networked information economy (Benkler reading)

Commons-based peer production

Intellectual property

Copyright

Digital commons

Open source concept

Open source motivations (Hars and Ou reading)

Open source ideology

Open access

Creative Commons License (web reading)

The ‘open internet’

What is a wiki?

What is Wikipedia?

What Wikipedia is not

Wikipedia and the “problems of democracy”

Comparing encyclopedias (experts and amateurs)

Wikipedia and “The Iron Law” (Konieczny reading)

Wikipedia five pillars

Wikipedia neutrality policy (Web reading)

Wikipedia verifiability policy (Web reading)

Wikipedia notability policy

Content and conduct policy on Wikipedia

Consensus on Wikipedia

Wikipedia user access levels

Deletionism and inclusionism (Jemielniak reading)

Media effects

Direct effects theory

Indirect effects theory

Social media and spiral of silence theory (Hampton reading)

Please let me know if you have any questions.