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
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
Cyberspace and Society
Copyright Issues and the Internet
Copyright Issues and the Internet
Copyright Issues and the Internet
Copyright Issues and the Internet
Copyright Issues and the Internet
Cyberspace and Society
Cyberspace and Society
Cyberspace and Society
Cyberspace and Society