Course Description: Big Data: Big Deal or Big Problem?
Privacy in the Modern World Who controls how one's identity is used by others? Social media, surveillance cameras, GPS on smartphones, digital financial and medical records, browsing histories; nearly every component of modern life leaves an identifying digital trace. The ownership of this information is not as clear cut as we may think. The line between private and public has become more unclear over the past decade. In this course, we will discover various ways our initial question is answered and, perhaps, become a better steward of our digital lives. Topics to be discussed include (but are not limited to): internet companies and user data; public figures and their rights to privacy; modern surveillance techniques; and anonymity and online culture.
Featured Books
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"Big Data and the Internet Are Empowering Researchers and the Public-but Endangering Privacy."Science (Special Issue "The End of Privacy." 347.6221 (2015): 490. Print.
News Sources
Source Evaluation Activity
Source Evaluation
Example: Selling Ourselves?
Resource #1: How Much Is Your Private Data Worth - and Who Should Own It?
Resource #2: Deliberative Democracy Online: Bridging Networks With Digital Technologies
Citation Information
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"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL, Purdue U Writing Lab, 2018.This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
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MLA Citation ExamplesUMUC Library Guide--Great item-by-item examples
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MLA Citation TemplateUse this interactive template to create works-cited-list entries in MLA style.
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MLA Handbook: Quick Style GuideUse this to get a list of all the elements that need to be included in a MLA citation.
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