FINAL EXAM

Our Final Exam is on Thursday, December 19, 11:30-2:30PM.

• YOU MUST BRING YOUR STUDENT ID CARD (OR PHOTO ID) TO THE EXAM
• It will have some multiple choice, some "fill in the blank," some essay answer.
• You will NOT need a blue (examination) book.
• Please bring a pen only.
• The exam will only take around 90-120 minutes.

STUDY GUIDE: HERE ARE SIGNIFICANT MATERIALS FROM THE LECTURES WHICH EXAM QUESTIONS MAY ADDRESS:

PEOPLE TO KNOW: Park Dae-Sung ("Minerva") • Tyler Clementi (and his room mate Dharun Ravi) • Gae-Ttong Nyue ("Dog Poo Girl") • Thomas Sawyer vs. Amir Tofangsazan • Jason Fortuny ("Craigslist Experiment") • Jessica Rose Lee ("Lonelygirl15") • Maru (the cat) • Al Gore ("The Gore Bill") • Sen. Ted Stevens ("A Series of Tubes") • Tim Berners-Lee • Megan Meier (and Lori Drew) • Aaron Barr and HBGary • MistahX (Luis Mijangos) • Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi

TERMS AND CONCEPTS TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND Malware • Social Engineering • a Virus • a Trojan Horse • a Worm • a "Zombie" • a "Botnet" • the Low Orbit Ion Cannon • Firesheep • a SlowLoris Attack and a DDoS Attack • Phishing and Smphishing • Skimmers • the 2007 Estonian Cyber-Attacks • Ghost Net • Ghost RAT • the Stuxnet Worm • DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) • 8-Bit Culture • Chiptunes • Gameboy Music • 419 Scams • Scambaiting • Jokeman/Guyman • Mugu • Anonymous (the group) • Project Chanology • Guy Fawkes Mask = "Epic Fail Guy" • "Very Erotic, Very Violent" • In Chinese: "censorship" = "harmonious (héxié)" = "river crab (héxiè)" • The Chinese "Baidu Creatures" • The Chinese "Grass Mud Horse" • heikè = "hacker, hóngkè = "honker" (Chinese "hackivists") • The Digital Divide (Internet use by income, education, age, and ethnicity) • The Global Digital Divide • THE XO-1 Laptop • macro • 241543903 • Wikipedia • information on the Internet is participatory • no standards/proof for publishing information on the Internet (the users is the “fact checker”) • Facebook groups hacked by "Control Your Info" • "Internet Eyes" • The Wikileaks publication of the 2007 helicopter attack on unarmed civilians in Iraq • Porn 2.0 • the over-exaggeration of online predator statistics • the nature of online predators (most pursuing under-age teens, not young children) "The Internet" vs. "The World Wide Web" • ARPAnet and the origins of the modern Internet • "Web 1.0" vs. "Web 2.0" vs. “Web 3.0” • L337 • NSFW (and why people use this) • "Darknet" • "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" • troll • DNFTT • lurker • sockpuppet • bacn • googlewashing /black hat SEO • chu(bou) (Japanese) • emoticons and Emoji (and why we are now using them) • ASCII art / Shift_JIS art • Orz • shock sites • advertising on social networks - products are not social entities • the Chevy Tahoe video fiasco • "The Runescape Mugging" • "The Habbo Hotel Robbery" • "The SIM Mafia" • Goldfarming • Shock Sites • Bitcoins and Bitcoin “mining” • Web 3.0: Augmented Reality, 3D Printing (and its potential hazards), high-information photography, location-based materials • astroturfing • cherryblossoming • cyberspace vs. meatspace • gelivable • emoji • Mistah X (Luis Mijangos) • theft of virtual properties • goldfarming • scambaiting • frames/schemata • “schadenfreude” • the boundaries of “humor” (maintained internally [frames/schemata] and externally [social sanctions]) • memes • “participatory humor” • lolcats • the contexts of humor [universal to interpersonal] • "Visual Anonymity" vs. "Source Anonymity" • pseudonymity • "groups" • assessment • humor • frames/schemata • collective action • collective behavior • groupthink • the need for emoticons in text-based communication (need to communicate emotion in our writing system) • mass publication as a means of public shaming • social sanctions • the inability to implement social sanctions on the Internet (anonymity = difficulty in identifying the culprit) • anonymity provides an arena for deception (419 Scams and "scambaiting") • self-publishing and how this is affecting the (previous) world of publishing (the users are now the “fact checkers” / publishers no longer control “information gatekeeping”) • "assessment signals" vs. "conventional signals" • deception • Dunbar's Number: "strong ties" and "weak ties" and why we keep "weak ties" around • the diffusion of responsibility (in groups) • disinhibition (and the Internet) • Charles Cooley's "Looking Glass Self" • impression management • "front stage" vs. "back stage" • deviance • Information and the Internet: public participation of the filtering, production, and publication of information.