CPT 123 Internet Skills Class Notes World Wide Web Session.

CPT 123 Internet Skills

Class NotesWorld Wide Web Session

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web [WWW or the Web] is a subset of the Internet System that permits the linking of multimedia documents among servers on the Internet

World Wide Web

By establishing linked relationship between WWW documents, related information becomes easily accessible

WWW resources are designed to be accessed with easy-to-use browsers

Information on the Web, which may be graphics, audio, video, animation, and text, is viewed in pages

World Wide Web

The first page normally viewed at a site is its home page

Web documents are created using a “tag” language, usually HTML [Hypertext Markup Language

Multimedia resources are linked via hypertext links

World Wide Web

Web pages can also contain hypermedia links

The transition between hypertext links and hypermedia links, known as hyperlinks, is transparent to the Web user

World Wide Web

http://members.tripod.com/~backalley/wav.htmlhttp://www.benedict.com/http://photo2.si.edu/http://www.npr.org/http://www.brainforest.com/search.htmhttp://www.real.com/http://web.msu.edu/vincent/presidents.htmlhttp://www.cpsnet.co.at/midimania/links/

lnkframe.htm

World Wide Web

The Web enables interactivity between users and servers

Some Web sites present some or all of their information in frames

Webcasting [Internet broadcasting] has emerged as a popular Internet Application

Cyberspace and Society

Social IssuesLegal IssuesCommercialization

Copyright Issues and the Internet

A copyright provides legal protection to a written or artistic work.

A copyright gives the author exclusive rights to a work to use it and reproduce it, except as governed under the fair use exclusion.

Copyright Issues and the Internet

It is considered fair use to use a portion of a work for educational, nonprofit purposes, or for the purpose of critical review and commentary.

You need to cite the original work in footnotes and/or bibliography

Facts are not covered by copyright

Copyright Issues and the Internet

One can use statistical and other data without infringement of copyright issues

Fair use does not extend to softwareYou cannot legally copy any licensed

software, except for a backup copyThe author releases all copyright on this

software and places it in the public domain

Copyright Issues and the Internet

Copyright laws are undergoing constant review in the digital age

Current state -- Anything on the Internet should be considered copyrighted unless it specifically says it is in the public domain.

If the author states that the work is being put into the public domain - right to distribute and reproduce work freely

Internet Social/Legal Issues

PovertyPornographyHate-group propagandaFreedom of SpeechHomage to sports heroesPoliticsCensorshipWorkplace Violence

Internet Social/Legal Issues

PovertyAccessibility to informationHaves verses the Have nots

Internet Social/Legal Issues

PornographyAccessibility of minors to materialResponsibility of parentsResponsibility of web publishersDecline of country’s moralsPay for view basis only

Internet Social/Legal Issues

Hate-group propagandaAgenda SettersEase of PublicationViews of all

Internet Social/Legal Issues

Freedom of SpeechThere should be no censorshipRight of ConstitutionIf you don’t like the information---don’t

view the information

Internet Social/Legal Issues

PoliticsDispersion of informationViews from both sidesSlanderFalse Information

Internet Social/Legal Issues

CensorshipConstitutional RightDon’t like --- don’t view

Internet Social/Legal Issues

Workplace ViolenceNumber of incidentsType of violence

Cyberspace and Society

http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.htmlhttp://www.clark.net/pub/soh/f_telecm.htmhttp://www.netaction.org/action/telereform.html

Cyberspace and Society

http://tcbworks.cba.uga.edu/~adennis/t97/tele.htmhttp://www.deepwell.com/~tex/EFF_Statement.htm

Copyright Issues and the Internet

http://pilot.msu.edu/user/kimyong2/copy.htmhttp://www.appliednet.com/copyright.htmlhttp://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/resces.htmlhttp://www.dudleycol.ac.uk/copright.htm

Copyright Issues and the Internet

http://www.innsite.com/Disclaimer.htmlhttp://www.interiorinternet.com/copyright.htmhttp://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/newmedia.htmlhttp://www.internet-photo.com/Copyright.htm

Copyright Issues and the Internet

http://www.newliberty.com/copy.htmhttp://www.CyndisList.com/copyrite.htmhttp://www.scubatimes.com/copyrigh.html

Copyright Issues and the Internet

http://www.mccaw-stg.com/house/copyrght.htmhttp://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ma.xstudent.9.1.1.1.dbhttp://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ma.xstudent.9.1.1.4.db

Copyright Issues and the Internet

http://www.ucop.edu/ott/crweb.htmlhttp://www.suite101.com/articles/article.cfm/3707

Cyberspace and Society

http://www.faegre.com/internet/inet.htmlhttp://www.accesscom.com/~jkahn/http://www.accesscom.com/~jkahn/privacy.htmlhttp://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/newslett.

htmhttp://www.brint.com/IntellP.htmhttp://www.denverpost.com/enduser/zeiger1.htm

Cyberspace and Society

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/newslett.htm

http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htmhttp://www.denverpost.com/enduser/zeiger1.htm

Cyberspace and Society

http://www.zondervan.com/greenpr.htmhttp://civilliberty.miningco.com/msubspki.htm

Cyberspace and Society

http://www.thegodess.com/blueribb.htmlhttp://www.interactive.net/~allenk/freespeech.htmlhttp://www.n-jcenter.com/menus/speech.htm