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CPT 123 Internet Skills
Class Notes
World Wide Web Session
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web [WWW or the
Web] is a subset of the Internet
System that permits the linking of
multimedia documents among servers on
the Internet
World Wide Web
By establishing linked relationship
between WWW documents, related
information becomes easily accessible
WWW resources are designed to be
accessed with easy-to-use browsers
Information on the Web, which may be
graphics, audio, video, animation, and
text, is viewed in pages
World Wide Web
The first page normally viewed at a site is
its home page
Web documents are created using a “tag”
language, usually HTML [Hypertext
Markup Language
Multimedia resources are linked via
hypertext links
World Wide Web
Web pages can also contain hypermedia
links
The transition between hypertext links
and hypermedia links, known as
hyperlinks, is transparent to the Web
user
World Wide Web
http://members.tripod.com/~backalley/wav.html
http://www.benedict.com/
http://photo2.si.edu/
http://www.npr.org/
http://www.brainforest.com/search.htm
http://www.real.com/
http://web.msu.edu/vincent/presidents.html
http://www.cpsnet.co.at/midimania/links/lnkframe.htm
World Wide Web
The Web enables interactivity between
users and servers
Some Web sites present some or all of
their information in frames
Webcasting [Internet broadcasting] has
emerged as a popular Internet
Application
Cyberspace and Society
Social Issues
Legal Issues
Commercialization
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
A copyright provides legal protection to a
written or artistic work.
A copyright gives the author exclusive
rights to a work to use it and reproduce
it, except as governed under the fair
use exclusion.
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
It is considered fair use to use a portion
of a work for educational, nonprofit
purposes, or for the purpose of critical
review and commentary.
You need to cite the original work in
footnotes and/or bibliography
Facts are not covered by copyright
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
One can use statistical and other data
without infringement of copyright
issues
Fair use does not extend to software
You cannot legally copy any licensed
software, except for a backup copy
The author releases all copyright on this
software and places it in the public
domain
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
Copyright laws are undergoing constant
review in the digital age
Current state -- Anything on the
Internet should be considered
copyrighted unless it specifically says it
is in the public domain.
If the author states that the work is
being put into the public domain - right
to distribute and reproduce work freely
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Poverty
Pornography
Hate-group propaganda
Freedom of Speech
Homage to sports heroes
Politics
Censorship
Workplace Violence
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Poverty
Accessibility to information
Haves verses the Have nots
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Pornography
Accessibility of minors to material
Responsibility of parents
Responsibility of web publishers
Decline of country’s morals
Pay for view basis only
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Hate-group propaganda
Agenda Setters
Ease of Publication
Views of all
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Freedom of Speech
There should be no censorship
Right of Constitution
If you don’t like the information---don’t view
the information
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Politics
Dispersion of information
Views from both sides
Slander
False Information
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Censorship
Constitutional Right
Don’t like --- don’t view
Internet Social/Legal Issues
Workplace Violence
Number of incidents
Type of violence
Cyberspace and Society
http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
http://www.clark.net/pub/soh/f_telecm.htm
http://www.netaction.org/action/telereform.html
Cyberspace and Society
http://tcbworks.cba.uga.edu/~adennis/t97/tele.htm
http://www.deepwell.com/~tex/EFF_Statement.htm
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
http://pilot.msu.edu/user/kimyong2/copy.htm
http://www.appliednet.com/copyright.html
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/resces.html
http://www.dudleycol.ac.uk/copright.htm
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
http://www.innsite.com/Disclaimer.html
http://www.interiorinternet.com/copyright.htm
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/newmedia.html
http://www.internet-photo.com/Copyright.htm
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
http://www.newliberty.com/copy.htm
http://www.CyndisList.com/copyrite.htm
http://www.scubatimes.com/copyrigh.html
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
http://www.mccaw-stg.com/house/copyrght.htm
http://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ma.xstudent.9.1.1.1.db
http://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/ma.xstudent.9.1.1.4.db
Copyright Issues and the
Internet
http://www.ucop.edu/ott/crweb.html
http://www.suite101.com/articles/article.cfm/3707
Cyberspace and Society
http://www.faegre.com/internet/inet.html
http://www.accesscom.com/~jkahn/
http://www.accesscom.com/~jkahn/privacy.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/newslett.htm
http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm
http://www.denverpost.com/enduser/zeiger1.htm
Cyberspace and Society
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/newslett.htm
http://www.brint.com/IntellP.htm
http://www.denverpost.com/enduser/zeiger1.htm
Cyberspace and Society
http://www.zondervan.com/greenpr.htm
http://civilliberty.miningco.com/msubspki.htm
Cyberspace and Society
http://www.thegodess.com/blueribb.html
http://www.interactive.net/~allenk/freespeech.html
http://www.n-jcenter.com/menus/speech.htm