Thursday 4/22 Presentations

Dena Lacey

Social media sites lack governing tools to prevent defamation, stalking, cyber-bullying and copyright infringement.

I’m a bit confused as to what your specific argument is?

Legal issues surrounding privacy protection and domain regulation in online spaces is still in its infancy…Legalities are escalating in courtrooms.

Regulation and enforcement will be the greatest obstacle to overcome legal issues

Can there be one single governing body to regulate and enforce cyber-law?

Communications Decency Act ….section 230…

You make it sound as though there needs to be some regulation for social media sites, however much of what you presented makes it sound as though there isn’t any real legal action available or is reasonably enforced…Are you arguing how this needs to change? Are you arguing that certain sites need to be regulated? I don’t know how you are going to argue for this enforcement when the U.S. specifically has very little enforcement? Also, how would this be enforced in other countries? Every country has different regulations as well…..I see what you are trying to say, but I think that your argument is falling flat because there is no specific support for what you are arguing other than opinion??? How does this type of regulation affect freedom of speech?

Michelle Assink

Human Computer Interaction

User friendly interfaces and designs of computers are helping create a seamless transition from the real to the virtual through their simplicity, interactivity, and relativity to the real and with the increased activity of users in virtual worlds it may not be long before the virtual world is real…

How are you specifically arguing that the virtual world is going to become the “real world”? While you gave some examples of how computers are adapting programs to become “more real”, how are you proposing that this replaces real life?

Your examples of how virtual environments and programs are helping us are good…


Brittany Bogenreif

Mobile Location Based Advertising

While I see where you are going with your information, I’m really confused as to where your argument is? What are you specifically arguing?

If people have their mobile devices blocked from receiving such information, how does affect things?

Perhaps you need to think about how to structure your argument. Something like…This is why we need to have mobile location based advertising or mobile based advertising is necessary because….

Then you need to address the negative aspect of mobile location based advertising…Everyone obviously doesn’t want this type of advertising sent to their mobile devices


Mark Belben

The Cost of Access – World of Warcraft

Blizzards changes to WoW to make the game appeal to more people have both fractured the community within the game as well as pushed the learning curve out of the game forcing players to rely heavily on third party websites and programs to learn how to play.

Players can’t be successful in WoW without being social and interactive until Blizzard gave users the ability to access a third party site to be able to play alone….The community of WoW is disintegrating because of this.

You also state that Blizzard is now changing the 3rd party systems to make it harder to utilize 3rd party to beat the game. Are you arguing that community is necessary to be successful and necessary to learn about the game?


Chris

A growing digital divide

How do you propose that communities will become fragmented online??

I see where you are going in your argument, but aren’t we already there?? Or rather, don’t we already experience fragmentation online as we do in real life? Are you arguing that we will fragment differently in the future? Are you proposing that there will be a solution to this type of fragmentation?

Something such as Chatroullette makes a valid point for your argument… Typically people don’t exchange a large amount of personal information or interact with one another for an extended period of time. Many also tend to act differently than who they really are in meatspace, further fragmenting the “reality” or sense of community on the online space. People also portray images or pictures of others/other things that don’t even represent who they are.