CSCI 15 - Winter Study 2020

An Introduction to the Modern Internet

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Infrastructure and ISPs

• Internet infrastructure: extending to rural areas
• How the shape of internet connections affects information accessibility
• Zero-rated internet service
• ISP Bandwidth throttling
• Peering disputes
• Net neutrality
• VPNs
• Torrents
• Tor and anonymous browsing
• Web browsers

Humans and the Social Web

• Google Books
• Captchas
• Human Computation
• Privacy on Facebook
• Privacy on Google
• Wikipedia
• Ridesharing apps
• DNA analysis/ancestry companies

Politics on the Web

• Politics on the internet
• Fake News
• Social media influence on elections
• Cambridge Analytica
• Bias on the internet

Privacy, Encryption, and Censorship

• Encryption
• Government censorship
• Government oversight
• Viruses and malware on the internet
• Pirating and copyright infringement
• Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
• The internet and the gig economy
• Internet dating
• Internet replacing classical communication
• k-anonymity
• Differential privacy and anonymization
• Edward Snowden