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

http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/14/pros-and-cons-of-alphabet/%23.1wcvbm:fGLm

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

http://www.netalarmed.com/conroydiycleanfeed.html

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate

‘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

http://www.internetblackout.com.au/

Internet governance

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/09/breaking-u-n-protocol-brazil-lambastes-u-s-spying/

25.04.2014

Brazil passes new Marco Civil da Internet, or Internet Bill of Rights

Norse Corporation Dark Intelligence threats real-time map

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

http://www.nbnco.com.au/

conclusion

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/channel-7s-internet-cat-videos-has-triumphed-over-cooking-shows-2015-8