Mid-term readings

Question 1

Hard truth about telecommuting

Answer 1

Benfiits:

Question 2

African American and Technology Use

Answer 2

Nationally 7% point gap between w/b on internet use
Smartphone usage correlated with age
12 point difference w vs b with broadband internet
65+ cell phone ownership is more 77% vs 45% internet use

Question 3

Young black and connected: FB

Answer 3

Studied online behaviors: communication and broadcasting
– 232 students
Study found:
– Fb ceates social and cultrual identity
younger students spend more time
interpersonal relationships more important than personality traits

Question 4

We cant all be obama

Answer 4

Media used for politics is cost-effective way

Question 5

Policing Cyber-Neighborhoods: Tension, Monitoring and Social Media Networks

Answer 5

COSMO– Social media analyzer for gauging rising tensions online

• • Uses tiwtter feed to determine rising tensions in order to help police act on sistuation in order to prevent riots formed by SM
• – ranking each tweet on scale 1-3

Question 6

E-gov research: lit limitations and ways forward

Answer 6

Various definitions of e-gov 
5 defined models of e-gov: gov 2 gov, gov 2 citizens, gov to corperations, gov 2 cival society, citizen 2 citizen 
5 stages of e-gov: 
1. emerging web presence 
2. enhanced web presence
3, interactive web presence
4. transactional web presence 
5. seamless web presence (al services online) 

Limits:

• • no universal def
• -too much belief in system

Suggestions:

• -Policy processes ad political nature of e-gov
• • define e-gov

Question 7

INternet and Surveillance

Answer 7

“new surveillance= electronical
Dataveillance = monitroing peoples commication and actions through IT
Internet enables globally network from of surveillance
– global interaction
–networking
Internet surveillance = scruntiy of the powerful
Privacy enhancing technologies
– virus protection, encryption, spyware