The Politics of the Internet

  Mid-Term Examination

 

Summarize three of the following documents.  Each of your summaries should be approximately two pages long.  Single answers may be shorter, but the entire exam should add up to six pages (double-spaced; 12-point font size; one inch margins).

Summaries must be thoughtfully argued, carefully presented, and free of all spelling and grammatical errors.  If you have writing problems, please go over your exam with a tutor in the Writing Center before you submit your work.  Also, all students must consult The Term Paper Checklist before handing in exams.  

If you have any questions, please ask them in class. Since you have plenty of time to finish this assignment, late papers will be marked down two full grades.

Exams are due by Wednesday, 11/6.  You may e-mail your work to me any time before then.  However, I will only accept exams that are sent as Word documents, and I will not grade any exams before 11/6.  Also, if computer problems interfere with the transmission of your work, you will not be given any special consideration or additional time.

 

  1. Caring About Connections: Gender and the Digital Divide

  2. Privacy Law in the United States, Ronald Standler 

  3. Olmstead v. United States (1928) 

  4. Privacy: A Multimedia History, Introduction, Susan E. Gallagher

  5. ACLU Files Brief in Second Supreme Court Battle Over Internet Censorship

  6. ACLU Challenges Library Internet Censorship Laws

  7. The Jake Baker Case (Note: you'll have to summarize the case, not just the timeline) 

  8. E-Commerce, Professor Radin, Stanford Law School: "E-tailing" or The Dotcom Shakeout

  9. Mark S. Dichter and Michael S. Burkhardt, Electronic Interaction in the Workplace: Monitoring, Retrieving and Storing Employee Communications in the Internet Age

  10. CONSUMER PRIVACY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB," Federal Trade Commission, Statement Before the House of Representatives (1998)

  11. What is Data-Mining?

  12. Wayne Madsen, Homeland Security; Homeland Profits

  13. Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan, "Technology and the Economy," Before the Economic Club of New York, New York, New York
    January 13, 2000

  14. Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank Group, "Public Policy for a Knowledge Economy,' Remarks at the Department for Trade and Industry and Center for Economic Policy Research, January 27, 1999

  15. One of the news stories brought in by members of the class  (after approval).