Internet misuse

Study the following articles and discuss them in class.

Threats on the Net 

Tiscali e-mail ‘hit’ by spammers

Employee Monitoring: Is There Privacy in the Workplace?

2.3.1 The internet: Articles

Read the linked articles and answer the following questions.

Designing a more accessible web

English Today, Mandarin by 2020?

Search Engine Marketing

1. Analyze each article according to the ITGS triangle
2. Discuss the social/ethical issues of using English as the main language of the WWW.
3. How the WWW can be more accessible for disabled people?
4. Wikipedia says “Paid search advertising hasn’t been without controversy, and issues around how many search engines present advertising on their pages of search result sets have been the target of a series of studies and reports by Consumer Reports WebWatch, from Consumers Union. The FTC also issued a letter in 2002 about the importance of disclosure of paid advertising on search engines, in response to a complaint from Commercial Alert, a consumer advocacy group with ties to Ralph Nader.” What is your opinion about the ethics in Search Engine Marketing?

2.3.1 The Internet – Homework

Define the following terms. Use your book as your main reference

Antonis 

• • HTTP

  • FTP

  • TCP/IP

  • cookies

• Marios

  • listserv

  • web cam

  • Internet languages

• Christina

  • netiquette

  • Intranet

  • URL

• Athina

  • hyperlink

  • bandwidth

  • WWW

• Elena

  • browser

  • search engine

  • e-mail