6.805 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Ethics and the Law on the Electronic Frontier

Assignments

Assignment 5

Assignments: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

International Issues

This week, Mike Fischer will talk about life on a different part of the electronic frontier.

Before Class

Read these papers:

  • Orkideh Behrouzan, Persian Blogs against “The Dual Language”
  • Alireza Doostdar, The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging
  • Hossein Derakhshan, Censor This: Iran’s Web of Lies
  • Steven Cherry, China: The Net Effect
  • Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman, Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web
  • “Moral rights” (Caslon Analytics: Intellectual Property Guide)
  • Anita Chan, Coding Free Software, Coding Free States

Also skim these papers:

  • Chris Kelty, Culture’s Open Sources: Punt to Culture
  • Internet Filtering in Iran 2004-2005 (PDF ‑ 1.0 MB)
  • Reporters Without Borders, The Internet Under Surveillance: China