1. What is the Internet?
The inteenet is a network of computer networks that uses two protocols, collectively known as TCP/IP, to control the exchange of data.
2. Explain the meaning of the two parts of an email address.
The first part of an email is the identification of a user. The second part identifies the domain name.
3. Describe how email is transmitted from the sender to the recipient.
Unless the message is short the mail server divides the message into packets. The message sent from the mail server through zero or more intermediate routers to the mail server of the person to whom you are sending the email. The destination email server
4. What is spam?
Spam is unsolicited bulk email.
5. What does a spam filter do?
A spa, filter attempts to keep spam from reaching someones mailbox by identifying and discarding( or routing to a special folder) emails that appear to be spam.
6. What is a URL?
An url is a Uniform Resource Locator. every Web page has a unique URL enabling hyperlinks to be set up between arbitrary pages.
7. What is a wiki?
A wiki is a collaborative web site that allows multiple people to create and edit the contents of the site using Web Browsers.
8. What is a blog?
A blog is a personal diary or journal kept on the web. The journal may contain text, photos, or videos.
9. What is a PC bang?
A PC bang is a Korean cybercafe in which people play persisitent, on-line games.
10. Describe five uses of theWeb not covered in the text.
Selling stuff, seek medical information, learn about weather, find out about traffic conditions, get directions before driving
11. Define censorship in your own words.
When a person or organization pervents another person or organization from expressing their opinion.
12. Summarize the different forms of direct censorship.
Government monopolization. Pre-publication review and licensing and registration. Government monopolization means the government owns all the media outlets. pre-publication review means the government must approve information before it is disseminated. Li
13. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, why do broadcasters have the most limited First Ammendment rights?
This is because they have a pervasive presence. they beam signals into the privacy of the home. SInce people can turn on radios and televisons and also turn them off, they may turn a device on in the middle of the show. That menas that warinings at the st
14. What characteristics of the Internet make censorship difficult?
The internet has too much information..more than television and radio. It supports many-to many communication. The internet is dynamic. Milliion s of computers are being added to the internet yearly
The Web is hug, containing billions of pages. The intern
15. What is a Web filter?
A web filter is a piece of software that prevents web browsers from displaying certain pages, presumably because they have objectionable content.
16. What is sexting?
sending emails or text messgaes that are sexually suggestive . often this involves nude photos.
17. What is the leading form of identity theft in the United States?
Credit card fraud
18. What is phishing?
Phishing is a form of spamming in which emaul messages are degined to trick victims into revealing sensitive financial information.
19. Define cyberbullying in your own words.
Bullying via the internet
20. How does the idea of "Internet addiction" stretch the traditional concept of addiction?
Traditonal addiction focuses on misuse of a chemical substance or drug.
21. What is the Enlightenment view regarding responsibility for addiction?
This is that people are responsible for the decisions they make about what they put into their bodies. thereofr the responsibility for a person becoming addicted rests with the addict him/her self.