POS 353453: 02242005

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POS 353/453 02/24/2005

• Website.
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/courses/pos3
  53-453/
• Course agenda (overview).
• No class next week video assignment.
• Paper descriptions returned.
• Website build-out update.
• Geocities continue with project complete by
  next week (03/03/2005).
• Midterm March 10th, review guide distributed this
  evening.
• Discussion of concepts introduced by
  readings/video clips.

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• Course agenda (detailed).
• Video Assignment for next week.
• Watch
• PBS Frontline Cyberwar 2003.
• Complete video broken up into 6 segments.
• Write
• UG 1 page reaction G 1.5 - 2 page reaction.
• Use video to evaluate Bendrath and/or Yould.
• Due 03/09/05.
• Worth 10 of class participation grade.

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• Course agenda (detailed).
• Research Paper overview.
• Paper description returned - 2 paper grade.
• March 24th Paper description/expanded
  bibliography - 3 paper grade.
• April 21st Paper description/annotated
  bibliography/outline (or draft w/annotated
  bibliography) 10 paper grade.
• Website build-out update. Website.
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/courses/pos3
  53-453/

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• Geocities Colonization Experimental Project
  (part 2).
• Example(s) of assignment
• http//www.geocities.com/cerickson_ru/pos353
• http//www.geocities.com/cerickson_ru2/
• http//geocities.com/global_girl9/mypage.html
• http//inat.org/Classes/POS353/WEBSITE/Index.htm
• Others?
• Project Requirements as of 03/03/05 (1159pm).
• Create at least one link between 2 pages on
  website.
• Post a sample .doc file (can be old paper or word
  document with minimal writing).
• Create imagelibrary page including at least one
  image file.

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• Cyberpolitics and Cybercriminality Current
  Issues.
• ChoicePoint Massive Social Hack.
• CNN 02/23/2005 Broadcast.
• Business Video Archive. Your data in jeopardy.
• Up to 145,000, including Illinois and Indiana
  residents.
• FTC What to do if identity hacked.
• Broader Context of ChoicePoint hack.
• CIR Archived ABC video No Place to Hide.
• Data Shadow. Wordspy
• Dataveillance. Clarke Wordspy.

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• Cyberpolitics and Cybercriminality Current Issues
  (continued).
• DarkNet.
• Village Voice Article.
• Digital Underground Exposing the 'Darknet' Are
  Al Qaeda terrorists using your personal computer?
• Article cited in above.
• The darknet and the future of content
  distribution by P. Biddle, P. England, M.
  Peinado, and B. Willman (Microsoft Corporation).
• 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Property Rights.
• Describes the architecture of darknets
• See p. 4, 8, and 9.

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• Discussion of concepts introduced by readings.
• Digital Divide.
• Chapters 5 6.
• Review.
• Bombs and Bandwidth.
• Review and Preview.
• Sterling.
• Computer History Museum.
• Schiavetta and Komatis.
• Digital Divide.
• Author Pippa, Norris.

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• Discussion of concepts introduced by readings.
• Digital Divide.
• Chapters 5 6.
• Chapter 5 Digital Democracy.
• Theories of digital democracy.
• Representative democracy.
• Pluralistic competition.
• Participation.
• Civil and political liberties.
• Rise of Digital Politics Theories.
• Developmental.
• Technological.
• Democratization.

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• Chapter 5 Digital Democracy.

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• Chapter 5 Digital Democracy.

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• Chapter 5 Digital Democracy.

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• Discussion of concepts introduced by readings.
• Chapter 6 E-Governance.
• Associations between e-governance and
  democratization.
• Transparency and interactivity.
• Video OECD Discussion re E-Governance 07/2004.
• Rolf Alter, Deputy Director OECD Public
  Governance and Territorial Development
  Directorate
• Archived on UK e-government website.
• Cyberspace Policy Research Group (CyPRG)

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• Norris Chapter 6 E-Governance.

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• Norris Chapter 6 E-Governance.

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• Norris Chapter 6 E-Governance.

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• Norris Chapter 6 E-Governance.

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• Bombs and Bandwidth.
• Bendrath (assigned for 03/03/2005).
• American Cyber-Angst.
• Overestimation of threat.
• Deliberate hyping for both overt and covert
  agendas.
• Cyber-Threat Discourse.
• Like Independence Day a bad and completely
  fictional story, but full of horror and thrill
• Enjoyed by American public, not embraced by
  terrorist networks.

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• Bombs and Bandwidth.
• Yould (assigned for 03/03/2005).
• IT central and defining core of security issues.
• Difficulties of defense given international
  blurring of boundaries between networks.
• Disruption vs. Destruction.
• Hacking vs. Information warfare.
• DHS and other elements of US cybersecurity
  apparatus outdated.
• Fortress America impossible.
• What type of strategies would work?