Internet Studies: Scenario Audio Slideshow

A class creates a student film to practice editing techniques for a Design Technology class. They

decide to post it on Youtube. The video contains background

music from a famous band and this leads to its removal from the site. The teacher is furious

because he feels the music was used for educational purposes.

-Response by Carina

Three students make the poor decision to drink alcohol at a local park on a Saturday night. One student posts pictures on Facebook of the friends with bottles of alcohol as they engage in embarrassing behavior. A parent of a classmate not involved sees the

photos and notifies the school principal. All three students are suspended from school. -Response by Antoni

Several students have discovered a web site that promotes anorexia as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder. It includes tips for weight loss, pictures that glamorize the

anorexic look, a discussion board members use to support one another, etc. School counselors have asked that this site and others like it be blocked on the school network.

-Response by Aleksandra

A teacher loses a DVD he had purchased a few months ago. Is

it ethical for him to show a pirated version of the film in his class for educational purposes?

-Response by Jon

Jason R. designed and posted a Star Wars web site. Once the site started receiving 40,000 hits a day, he received a phone call from Lucasfilm asking him to shut it down.

Lucasfilm was then flooded with angry e-mail messages from fans who felt the company was exerting totalitarian control over products to which they felt a deep personal

connection.-Response by Jessica

Ken doesn't have much money to buy new music. Instead, he checks out CDs from the public library and rips them, or copies

music files from free sharing sites or friends’ computers.

When he does have money, he either buys CDs the library doesn’t have or downloads songs from iTunes for $.99

apiece.**-Response by Marko Jukic

A class creates a student film to practice editing techniques for a Design Technology class. They decide to post it on Youtube. The video contains background music from

a famous band and this leads to its removal from the site. The teacher is furious because he feels the music was used for educational purposes.

-Response by Vibz

Some students start up an “I Hate Mr. Underwood Day” event page on Facebook and invite all of the members of class to join. The page contains hurtful remarks about the teacher and mutinous

plans for disturbing class are outlined in detail. The school’s principal discovers this and suspends the creators of the page, and gives detentions to those who have agreed to “Attend”.

-Response by Mateja

The Chinese government decides to ban Facebook again after riots occur in one of their

Western provinces. Many citizens feel this violates their freedoms but the government feels that the postings on the

site promote subverting government policy.

-Response by Dusan

A teacher loses a DVD he had purchased a few months ago. Is it ethical for him to show a pirated version of

the film in his class for educational purposes?-Response by Shahaf