... by its costs to employees' privacy and autonomy. While surveillance of employees is not a new phenomenon, electronic surveillance allows employers to monitor workers with unprecedented efficiency. In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees' privacy for decades, such as drug testing, background checks, psychological ... to invest in surveillance programs. "Dilbert, " a popular cartoon that spoofs office culture, aptly captures how rampant recreational Internet use has become in the workplace." But mo...

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... of internet providers and unregulated content providers, who operate in highly secretive business models, will jeopardize the privacies and rights of the consumers. Data loss, online fraud, and online abuses are rife due to net neutrality. Increased Network Congestion The number of internet users is increasingly rapidly, and the bandwidth needed to accommodate the growing demand ... centralized control over the content on their networks" (Scott, Heumann, & Kleinhans, 2015, p. 1). This commercial criterion leaves many companies and consumers at risks of facing serious online frauds. Unreg...

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... to connect with their peers with impressive immediacy, synchronicity, and ease of access would only further their social development, but this online connection is not how adolescents progress socially in such vital years. The truth is, over dependence on online relationships in the developmental stages of teenage years has caused some teens to have damaged or altered social abilities in the real ... can lead teens to retreat into themselves and shut out potentially valuable friendships in the real-world (Rideout, 2012). Not only can this dependence do this, but the friendships made onl...

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... intended for all. While the internet contains a wealth of knowledge that can be sent across the world almost instantly, similar to the radio in its heyday, corporations such as America Online, Netzero, Microsoft Network, and others are able to provide access to the internet while shutting out amateurs through government lobbying and legislation. Their creation of monopoly over internet access has ... ...

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... and how these differences shape the levels of technological adoption, Internet usage, and Internet commerce. There are several factors which can either enhance or deter a nation's willingness to conduct business online. Nations are distinct on several levels, ranging from the individual level purchase preferences and concerns about security to national telecommunications infrastructures and regulatory issues intended to encourage or protect a country ... ...

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... many sectors and sub-sectors such as content (text, sound, images, "animated images" and video), platforms, software and technologies. Overall, it represents the convergence between traditional media and the growing online media segment, with the related telecommunications and information technology enablers. Essentially, Digital Media is about content creation, content management and content distribution across multiple Internet and digitally-enabled platforms such ... ...

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