World
Issues
December 4 - December 10
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Read
the following articles located in your reading pack and use them
in this week's discussion.
A
league of its own By: Michael Cross
One Billion Couch Potatoes By George
Wehrfritz and Duncan Hewitt
The Airwaves Go Digital By Karen Lowry
Miller
3G may bring Web to African poor CNN
report
Calling All Luddites By Thomas L. Friedman
Beginning of the end By: Conor Purcell
Digital tax to aid poor nations BBC Online
Unfortunately
many of the sources that have been used for readings such as newspapers
and magazines no longer keep their links active. For this reason,
under Fair Use guidelines, you have been given a reading pack.
You are not allowed to distribute the readings in any form
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All
students enrolled on this module: The following countries are represented:
Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Spain, China, United Kingdom,
Italy.... |
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Go to
NUA and gather some current statistics concerning online use in
different areas of the world. Do not focus just on a particular
country, but rather look at world regions.
Refer to this
exercise in the discussion.
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Use the following question
to BEGIN this week's discussion
Is it feasible
for counties to censor the material that their citizens can view
from online sources?
Go to the Bulletin
Board.. http://trentamd.soc.staffs.ac.uk/forum/index.php? and
begin the discussion
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