Choose an Issue
In this section, you choose a topic of interest relating to societal issues or problematic behaviors on the Internet for further investigation. You can select one of the topics introduced in this subunit, or an alternate issue you find more interesting. Your task is to search for reliable resources on your chosen topic and to share these links on the course resource bank.
Alternate Issues
Choose any societal issue or antisocial behavior associated with the Internet you wish. Here are few additional topics to consider:
- 10 Forms of Online Harassment from howstuffworks;
- Cyberchondria: Challenges of Problematic Online Searches for Health-Related Information from Karger;
- The Woman Whose Phone ‘Misdiagnosed HIV’ complexities of mobile ownership from from BBC News;
- Face-off between MPs and Social Media Giants over Online Hate Speech from The Guardian;
- Keystroke Logging from Wikipedia;
- The Price of Connection: Surveillance Capitalism from the Conversation;
- How Bots took over Twitter from the Harvard Business Review;
- Scams from Consumer New Zealand.
Resource Bank Activity
Purpose
To find, summarize and share two reliable resources on the issue you chose relating to societal and problematic Internet behaviors.
Tasks
- Choose a topic of interest.
- Conduct a search to identify reliable and credible online resources on your selected topic. Try to find resources from your own country or region, or your own area of work.
- Choose the two best resources; log in to bookmarks.oeru.org and click on “Add” link.
- Complete the form adding the link, a short description and the recommended tags below for each resource. Be sure to mark your resource “Public.”
The resource bank is hosted at bookmarks.oeru.org. The system uses tags to search for related resources. Log in and vote for resources you find useful. Please use the following tags for this activity:
Required tags: : lida102, lida102a5-1
Suggested tags: : Use appropriate keywords (lowercase), e.g.: trolling (or other descriptive tag(s))
Quicklink: : lida102