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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Research Question: Draft
To what extent is it fair to say that America’s fashion industry is unprotected by intellectual property law because much of the industry and American consumers thrive on inexpensive knockoffs?
Posted in Final Projects, Homework
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Research Question
What role does gossip play in the social norms of Arab societies regarding femicide?
Posted in Final Projects, Homework
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Research Question
To what extent does artificial scarcity increase the value of digital goods, such as E-books and software programs?
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Draft Research Question
How is the case of S.E.C. vs. Rorech significant in analyzing the effort put forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission in prosecuting culprits of insider trading?
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Research question
How does Google’s methods of gathering information on the internet endanger the user’s privacy?
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My research question
Given the growing epidemic of cyberbullying, what is the best way to ensure that it is prevented/reduced on social networking websites?
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Harvesting Your Personal Data on the Open Web
If you’ve created accounts at places like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, NetFlix, etc., is it ethical for companies to come to those sites, copy all the personal profile information, cross-reference it across different accounts, and then resell it to advertising and marketing firms? What a company did this by connecting some “anonymous” account you had created on a site with some other account where your profile is clearly you, thereby destroying the anonymity you once had on the other site?
The 22 October 2010 episode of the radio program, On the Media, covered this problem on “data scrapers.” If you’re looking for a research question, this topic is rich with possibilities.
Posted in Final Projects
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Facebook Privacy?
This week, a blog that focuses on news and happenings in Gerritsen Beach, stirred up controversy when it posted screenshots of Facebook profile pages of teenagers who were throwing eggs, rocks, etc. at passing cars on Halloween. Do you think it was ethical of the blog to do this if the kids’ Facebook pages are publicly available anyway? It seems like there is a good research question here for someone’s final project in this class.
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Copying and Intellectual Property in the Fashion World
If you’re thinking of doing a research question related to copyright infringement in the fashion world, check out this podcast from the Planet Money show. The hosts of the show interview a number of experts on the subject of intellectual property and fashion; the show notes for this episode of the podcast include links to a number of great sources on the topic.
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Subject headings- Information Technology
The subject headings were alphabetized and categorized into different subtopics and categories including different areas and countries in the world such as the Caribbean area, Africa, Asia. The subtopics included economic aspects, educational aspects, government policy and much more.
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