Digital Communication 2001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Network Society, Internet Vigilantism, Utah Data Center
10 Jan 2018
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Lecture #1: introduction: the internet, the world wide web and other forms of networked communication were born of the desire to share and make information free to everyone. In other words, digital communication was conceived as a form of freedom as a form of freedom. Credit card information, financial information, legal documents, travel documents, health records: analyze/reference data, operational applications, data warehouse, terrorist screening center alert. How so: privacy-> publication of personal information, revealed through. Internal walls (c. 1500 a. d. : most ho(cid:373)es did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:449)alls separati(cid:374)g roo(cid:373)s u(cid:374)til the de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of the brick chimney, which needed support beams. Solo beds (c. 1700: beds used to be extraordinary expensive; many homes only had a single large bed that was shared with the entire family and guests. Sex with others in the room was common. Information was often public including the first american census.
