internet' - lecture for meco 1002
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Internet
week 4 lecture :: 17.08.15 Media & Comms Landscapes (MECO 1002)
Gerard Goggin/@ggogginDept of Media & Comms, USYD
ITU, Facts & Figures 2015
ITU, Facts & Figures 2015
Internet
1 new medium2 Lot of convergence pivots on
Internet (& mobiles) 3 Internet = new law, policy &
governance issues
Internet
1. network of networks2. TCP/IP3. Internet media industry
‘CSIR Mk1, doors off, in the Radiophysics Laboratory, Sydney. Geoff Hill, June 1952’, http://www.csirac.info/gallery.html
William Crowther’s ‘Colossal Cave Adventure’ (1976); released on the early APRANET (precursor to Internet); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
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online in the wilderness – early internet in Northern NSW, with Pegasus, one of 1st ISPs
Ian Peter online at Terania Creek (Photo: Brian Alexander)
National Library Pandora Archive
Internet Archive & Way Back Machine
Source: Forbes Magazine, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/09/22/alibaba-claims-title-for-largest-global-ipo-ever-with-extra-share-sales/
Blued hook-up app, started by Ma Baoli; Christina Larson, Bloomberg, 10 December 2014
Internet policy1 The Internet’s own decentralized policy
frameworks - e.g. acceptable use rules (no trading on Internet until 1992); Request for Comment (RFC); domain name registration
2 Regulating content (porn; violence; hate speech;
abuse; defamation) & censorship3 Sharing ideas - intellectual property4 Internet governance 5 Does everyone in the world have access to
affordable, useable Internet?
Regulating content - porn; violence; hate speech; abuse; defamation
- & censorship on the Internet
‘Green Dam Girl: That unhealthy information is so gross; I'm a girl worth 40 million Grass Mud Horse: I'm just an alpaca’ source: http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/green_dam_girl.php
Secretary Clinton on "Internet Rights And Wrongs: Choices & Challenges In A Networked World”, George Washington University, 15 Feb 2011
Sharing ideas - intellectual property & Internet
Picture from season 4 finale, episode 10, Games of Thrones, ‘The Children, http://cdn.winteriscoming.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/thechildren2.jpg
Wikipedia, ‘Imagine a World without Free Knowledge’, 18 January, 2012
Internet governance
25.04.2014
Brazil passes new Marco Civil da Internet, or Internet Bill of Rights
March 26, 2015 - new laws
Data Retention The Australian Government is committed to providing our law enforcement and security agencies with the tools they need to keep our community safe by requiring the telecommunications industry to retain a limited set of metadata for two years. Attorney-General’s Dept
Internet Access who has it? For how much? & what we do to ensure everyone has it?
Is Connectivity a Human Right?For almost ten years, Facebook has been on a mission to make the world more open and connected. Today we connect more than 1.15 billion people each month, but as we started thinking about connecting the next 5 billion, we realized something important: the vast majority of people in the world don’t have access to the internet.Connecting the world is one of the greatest challenges of our generation … I’m excited to work together to make this a reality.Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, 2014
where did the NBN come from?The 19th century Overland Telegraph
conclusion
