Ch9 Broader IssuesCommunity or Isolation?Slide 3How Do You Measure Community?What About Isolation?Computer AddictionTwo decent articlesSlide 8Who gets hooked?Slide 10Blaming OthersCybersexCybersexProblems with Stanford StudyInformation Haves and Have NotsAdditional InformationCommunications Act of 1934CPSR & Universal Access"Larry Irving: Digital Divide Lives, Few People Care"Newsbytes (04/18/02); MacMillan, RobertThe Market's RoleCan They Do This?Loss of Skills and Judgment"Considerate Computing"Are Computers Hurting Education?Slide 25Slide 26Slide 27Encouragement to not ThinkShades of Big BrotherPolitical FreedomNew Technologies and the FutureFood Production and Increased Life ExpectancyFirst SpamFirst Commercial Spam"War on E-Mail Spam Ratchets Up in Courts, Legislatures" Christian Science Monitor (4/18/2) P. 1; Marks, Alexandra"Spam to Overtake Real E-Mail in 2003"Slide 37Anti-Spam Law is UnconstitutionalSpam Profit Margins?McAfee Looks at Spam's Damage to EnvironmentPredictions are IffySlide 424/15/02 CSC309 Miller 1Ch9 Broader Issues4/15/02 CSC309 Miller 2Community or Isolation?Many people feel that the impact of computers on community, social, and interpersonal interaction is negative and will get worse.Will on-line shopping kill real stores and eliminate the need for community-based professionals? Will the effluent pull back on support for local schools and public services?11/12/02 CSC309 Miller 3Community or Isolation?Will the ability to do so many things from home (shop, vote, bank, etc.) cut down on people to people interaction and result in a de-emphasis in the importance of community?Are there factors other than technology thatoffer greater threats to the concept of community ?Have these other factors already killed thesense of community?11/12/02 CSC309 Miller 4How Do You MeasureCommunity?It has been suggested that a good measureof “community” is the number of organizations that people join and are active in.Unlike studies of the early 90’s, recent studies tend to indicate that this is not aproblem.11/12/02 CSC309 Miller 5What About Isolation?There was a real concern about what the impact of the telephone would be. It was feared that it would negatively impact peoples abilityto talk face to face.Many people are reporting that e-mailcorrespondence has allowed them to keep in touch with the modern dispersed family.10/4/08 CSC309 Miller 6Computer AddictionThis is a real problem. Computer games have knocked more than a few studentsout of college. You might have noticed that old-timers tend to get hooked on Solitaire. (or e-bay)Probably won’t kill you but can sure messyour life up.10/3/08 CSC309 Miller 7Two decent articles“How Computer Addiction Works”http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-addiction.htm/printable Valid 10/03/08. If not still on the web a copy of the article can be found on the class website under “HowstuffworksComputerAddiction”10/3/08 CSC309 Miller 8Two decent articles“When games stop being fun” Published: April 12, 2002. I couldn’t find a copy on-line,so I’ve put a copy I made years ago on the class website under the name“GameAddiction”10/4/08 CSC309 Miller 9Who gets hooked?Studies have reported that Internet addicts tend to have the personality that leads to addiction and it is probable that if they were not addicted to the Internet then there would be addiction to something else suchas gambling, drug abuse, etc.Our focus should be on an understanding ofaddiction that leads to avoidance and/ortreatment and not simply on computerrelated manifestations.10/4/08 CSC309 Miller 10Who gets hooked?If you look at the traits associated withan addictive personality you will probablynote that “many of the traits can be found inanyone. It’s often a matter of degree thatdetermines whether or not these traits driveus to seek relief through a drug of one sort ofanother.”“Willpower’s Not Enough” by Washton and Boundy10/4/08 CSC309 Miller 11Blaming OthersThe person who blames others rather thantake responsibility for his own actionsis particularly prone to addiction becausethis forfeits the power to change the situation.“Willpower’s Not Enough” by Washton and Boundy[If you are going to be a professional then thereare going to be times when you are simplywrong. You need to be able to acknowledgethat when it happens or you will never be ableto clean up the mess you made.]4/15/02 CSC309 Miller 12Cybersex Stanford study published 4/99 in “Professional Psychology: Research and Practice”9 million people a day log on to the Internet for sexual pursuits.8% were determined to be sexually compulsive because they spent more than 11 hours a week on cybersex and felt it interfered with their lives.13CSC309 Miller4/15/02Cybersex60% admitted to lying about their age.40% admitted to lying about their race.47% were married.The three “A”s of the Internet: affordability, accessibility, and anonymity.4/15/02 CSC309 Miller 14Problems with Stanford Study1. If all of these people admit to lying then at least that number does. Why believe them now?2. Since when does not feeling you have a problem mean that you don't have one?3. Arbitrary selection of hours needed to be addicted.4. Sample size not given or details on how data collected.4/15/02 CSC309 Miller 15Information Haves andHave NotsA family with a college education and earning over $50,000 is five times as likely to have a computer as one with non-graduates earning less than $30,000.Over half of the children of college graduates use a computer at home while only 17% of children in homes where the parents have high school education or less do.Are colleges with poorly supported computer labs even playing fields?4/8/09 CSC309 Miller 16 Additional Information70% of children in the US between the ages of 7 and 17 have access to computers (Child Trends 2003; DeBell and Chapman)4/15/02 CSC309 Miller 17Communications Act of 1934Under the universal service guarantee found inthe act, telephone companies are required to provide telephone service to poor people at low rates, subsidized by other customers.Do we need to extend this principle to the NET?CPSR argues that in an information-drivensociety the answer is yes.4/15/02 CSC309 Miller 18CPSR & Universal AccessAccording to CPSR, Universal Access requires:1. A place where everyone can go to get access.2. Easily used equipment.3. Training in the use of hardware and software.4. Affordable access.5. Access to the full range of