Soctech:Topics
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This page is for notes regarding interesting society and technology topics. Ruminate in as much detail as you like. This stuff could be fodder for briefings/white papers, lecture series, conferences, or the beginnings of a syllabus for a survey course.
- intellectual "property"
- DMCA and related laws
- effects on:
- innovation
- consumer sovereignty/fair use
- accessibility issues (closely related to fair use
- security: RIAA threatened to use IP law against Felten for investigating security issues; chilling effects could affect all kinds of security research
- open source development
- community-run vs. corporate-run models
- benefits/costs for e.g. developing countries and governments
- outsourcing
- software engineering ethics
- voting machines and verifiability of public software systems
- assistive technologies, e.g. for the dyslexic
- value-sensitive design
- cryptography
- history of cryptographic control and export in US
- security, privacy issues
- privacy
- ubiquitous computing
- databases: effects as they get progressively larger and more integrated
- spam
- social software (email lists, blogs, wikis)
- effects of social software on political and other organization
- note interesting NYT Magazine article; relatively little about software, but mentions MoveOn.org and provides some context
- effects of social software on political and other organization
- international law and international networks