Yesterday, Verizon agreed to pay the FCC 7.4 million dollars as compensation for violating their customers’ privacy. Since 2006, the company did not explain to their new customers, that they can either approve or refuse to let Verizon share their…
Our Information is Safe from Hackers… For Now
The chances of being hacked varies on every individual, but every time we use the Internet, we risk contacting a virus or any technological disturbance that steals our confidential information. Occasionally, the news will mention users that lost their personal…
The Internet as a Political Stage: Hacktivism, DDoS & Regulation
Source: http://www.popularresistance.org/the-lion-sleeps-no-more-anonymous-calls-for-global-protest-nov5th/ Anonymous for those of you who haven’t heard was an internet hacktivist group that began in 2003 and have been responsible for attacks on major websites such as causing them to shut down momentarily. “Anons” as they call themselves…
Cable Companies Scramble to Compete Against the Fastest Internet
Rural areas are usually expected to not have internet access since internet providers prefer serving cities for guaranteed profit. Recently, Chattanooga is the fastest internet service in America, with the speed of every second loading one gigabyte, emerged in urban…
Habitation for the Global Village!
In response to an influx of refugees from Syria, the International corporation of Ikea has pooled resources, research and survey work with the UN’s to design, produce and donate sturdy camp homes to the newly-homeless refugees. This article includes a blueprint of…
Can Digitized Circulation Preserve Traditions?
Hafez notes that even though technology would allow media to flow across national borders, it still tends to flow within cultural groups. Since music is statistically the thing that crosses cultural borders most frequently, I am going to write about…
The Sin of Internet
We all get them and we all hate them; yes, I’m talking about pop-up ads. These ads never fail to annoy you and even give you viruses, and recently their creator Ethan Zuckerman even apologized for this plague he brought upon…
Twitter Posts during Crime demonstrates that Online Information need to be Supervised
In Seattle, the police discouraged civilians from tweeting during local criminal activities such as manhunts and shootings. These crime tweets may inform the culprits about the current location and actions of the police. Although there has been no incidents…
Looking at a Practice of Journalism & Dissemination of News Among Worldwide Asian Diaspora.
Many of CCTVNews’s facebook status posts include screen snapshots of popular twitter feeds, use references to conversation on Twitter. But they rarely linked to longer, business-like articles. I used google to find the more legitimate-looking, ‘official’ versions of the CCTVNews articles on…