... are reaching their ideal audience by using that medium. And no doubt the museum store will be transplanted in its entirety to the new medium. The emergence of museums and other art venues into electronic environments is already benefiting traditional museums, the artists, and the public. As technologies for the creation, translation, transmission, and presentation of art become more available, more powerful, ... cheaper, and easier to use, we will see an explosion of art in the public sphere ... like none before. For the first time, we may all get to decide what "good" art is, and which...

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... , the federal government enacted these regulations prior to the launch of internet gambling. They include: The Wire Wagner Act, The Travel Act, The Interstate Transportation of Wagering Paraphernalia Act, The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. The Wire Wagner Act The Wire Wager Act states: "Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the ... in cyberspace. Not to mention the fact that there are wireless connections to the internet these days via cell phones and other handheld electronics such as personal digita...

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... of mankind. The internet has impacted our behavior, our tradition, our language, faster than ever imaginable. Technology has irreversibly changed the dynamic of communication, affecting society in both negative and positive ways. Social media, more specifically, is an integral part in almost everybody's life. These advances have allowed us to connect with people on levels unimaginable in the past, ... 's a brilliant way of doing so. But we still find, as always, these great things come with negatives. Infidelity and divorce rates have been drastically affected by how easy it has become ...

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... be harmful or offensive. That act is the CIPA, Children's Internet Protection Act. The act went back to court a few separate times. The first few times the court found the act to be in violation of the First Amendment. The CIPA was finally passed and now states libraries must install ... internet filters which screen for offensive content. The court decided that the act doesn't violate the First Amendment because any ... selected personal information from being transmitted from your computer. Even though these pieces of software intend to be filtering only the negative information and c...

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... criticism from the West and possibly serve as a model for other nations who are trying to quell dissent. Social Media controls by a government can have good intentions. India has asked companies to censor what it deems, "objectionable material". Under the Information Technology Act, the government can legally ... of. The Act was passed with the intention to make social networking abide by the same controls as other media. (Rajawat 1) Yatish Rajawat points out how the social media varies from other media by saying: Social media is like any other media, the only difference and a big one .....

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... enforce laws extraterritoriality into other jurisdictions" (Banks, 2010, p.234). With Multilateral regulation, the application of national law to foreign entities has serious limitation, "an international system governed by compacts and supranational decision making would appear to offer an appropriate means through which to obviate regulatory conflict between nation states" (Banks, 2010, p.236). Legal regulation can sometime be very complex; ... policies that prohibit users from certain types of conduct, including engaging in hate" (Stern, 2002, p.83). Despite the fact that United stat ...

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... to it the people's rights far outweigh the need to ban sexually explicit material. The CDA (Communications Decency Act) and the COPA (Children Online Protection Act) are both bad examples of government regulation. In 1996 the CDA was passed stating that it was prohibited ... the internet would be limited in content and taking away people's rights to expression. PICS stands for the Platform of Internet Content Selection, and originated from the people who actually designed the World Wide Web while the Communications Decency Act was being thought up by the government. ... in the internet ...

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... to this life of technology. There are a set criteria of symptoms for internet addiction: obsessive thoughts about the internet, tolerance, diminished impulse control, inability to cease using the internet, and withdrawal (Davis). Unfortunately, these symptoms can impact an individual's life in a negative way. It could risk a teen's relationship with another person or people, it can affect their education ... internet addiction either escape to the internet because of depression or are depressed because of all the long hours they've spent on the internet--this is still something psycholog...

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... market for pornography is enormous. Even though this industry creates billion dollar revenues, is it harmful against women in their efforts to break gender stereotypes and towards equal rights to men? Even though women in pornography participate from their own free will, the impact on the public is what has to ... the actors do not relate to their surroundings (Faust 29). It is the capture of one moment of a sexual act that is supposed to summarize all the pretenses to sexual arousal in that picture. There is no place for contraception or hygiene in this fantasy ... prove their stereoty...

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... ', 'artificial worlds', 'virtual worlds', 'virtualities', is a fully immersive, absorbing, interactive experience of an alternate reality through the use of a computer structure. Whilst in virtual reality a person perceives a simulated environment and becomes a participant with the computer in a "virtually real" world. Virtual reality may be one of the most important technologies in our future, producing a great leap forward in many fields. While ... we"re on the telephone we are experiencing virtual reality, where we are in the space between to points of communication. Perhaps one of th...

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... a connection to the violence seen today. The argument is that musicians are writing songs that portray a message that "promotes" or "suggests" not only violent acts but also drugs, sex, and vulgar language. The main group that these messages are influencing is today's young people, prominently teenagers. Thomas Jipping, Director of the Free Congress Foundation's Center for Law & Democracy, made an ... After the incident Manson was quoted without even acknowledging the accusations, in saying, "I have been asked to comment... It's a tragic and disgusting anytime young people's lives are t...

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... onwards life has been getting easier for the average person. It all started in 1938 with the Holidays with pay act (paid holidays for all workers) and now the average amount of holiday time we get is increasing year by year. Since more people are having holiday ... a company using cheap bombers which otherwise would of have been left to rust in a plane graveyard. This entrepreneur was called Vladimir Raitz and the company was called Horizon holidays. Further technological development occurred in 1969 with the jumbo jet (Boeing 747). This aircraft had several impacts ... booking system cal...

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... would conclude, that governing authorities should better control technology and place censorship on the Internet. I would argue that although there is a lot of criminal behavior taking place in the technology arena, censorship and big brother restraints on the Internet and technological advancements should be a last result. There are laws in act today discouraging people and corporations from these criminal behaviors. The issue here is the ... enforcement of social laws and standards set by society demands (Berleur 1-5). Although technology is addressing the constant moral ... ...

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... deeply. When people use Internet, the communication is not unilateral, people still can transmit their information to the Internet and get the feedback from it. The mass is not only the accepters, they have more choices and more chances to get into act, they are also the actors. For these characteristics of Internet, Internet Visual Identity System has more representations than the ... of Internet Visual Identity design. 3.3 The value of Internet Visual Identity System Vision is a very important element in human communication. Being a new media, Internet unites the traditional communic...

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... second layer of the model, there are two types software in a computer which is System Software: Operating System(Mac OS X, Windows, Linux) and Firmware. The Application Software(Browsers, Media Players) . The Firmware is a program that is created by computer codes being embedded onto a piece of hardware itself ... company, without an Operating System the whole computer would be useless. For example, Windows computers would be pre-loaded with the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computer would be pre-loaded with a Mac OS X. The Operating System manages two thing, it simply allows you to u...

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... . Websites can also be set up for potential buyers. On the site, such things as contacts can be listed. Phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses can be shown, as well as fax numbers, for those who do not feel comfortable with new technology. Orders can actually be ... .chematch.com, the first online option contract was transacted on www.chematch.com. Chematch.com is a leading global Internet exchange for the selling and purchasing of bulk commodity chemicals. This first option online trade involved mixed xylenes, used in the production of polyester products. In this transaction, the ...

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... it has turned into an addiction. The definition of a hacker according to the Hacker's Dictionary, "a person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities."(Hackers 1) "The Internet is just another playing field." (Kjochaiche 3) "Hackers regard hacking as a game in which their mind ... is up against that of the system designers." (Hackers 3) The Internet allows the hackers to take files, programs, passwords, and other information from users that are using it. They use this as a tool to make it easier to beat "the system". There are three ma...

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... during the war was the airplane. The emergence of the airplane meant the need for completely new strategies for both attacking the enemy and defending yourself. Terrifyingly for the state they were now faced with the strong possibility of having their boundaries penetrated. This type of ... society. Such sudden change in technology meant that the very nature of war itself changed, targets changed. Boundaries were becoming increasingly permeable, and the fact that bombers could travel hundreds of miles brought these new targets into play that were traditionally out of reach. It was now .....

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... article on Fighting Mobile Fraud, Iovation states that "ninety percent of all fraud attempts reported from mobile devices have included credit card fraud and account takeover attempts," which helps to prove the fact that privacy is diminishing daily because of the growing use of technology. Now that ... way, but it has taken a whole other turn on people's lives. People in today's society constantly use the internet, cellphones, and social media to update and upload many aspects of their life for the world to see. This allows people to constantly know what others are doing, decreasing pri...

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... huge transgender presence on the internet, because that's the only place where many trans people feel safe enough to ask questions about gender identity and talk about their everyday problems. Knowing that people feel the same way that you do about your favourite tv show is really great, but ... all over the internet. Hundreds of thousands of people publicised the news of the death on blogging websites and on twitter and on facebook. Protests were organised via twitter and facebook almost immediately, and the entirety of North America mourned the loss of Mike Brown in peaceful protest. T...

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... Kehr noticed that "streaming, with its forgivingly low resolution, provides a perfectly acceptable showcase for movies that do not exist in the flawless prints now considered essential for DVD, and particularly Blu-ray, release. There are many movies of interest without reputations or stars big enough to justify the expense of a full-scale digital restoration" (Dixon 32). In ... Another branch of telecommunications is a social networks. "Relationship is the basis of any sort of community. Social networks are created by the relationships among their members." (Carlos and Pinheiro 115). As...

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... media industry develops a more appropriate policy censoring specific content towards specific user group. Introduction Over the past several decades, along with the aggravation of geopolitical complication and the explosion of knowledge, there has been an indirect grow in the application of censorship. According to Oxford Dictionaries, censorship is the suppression of any type of ... or the meaning of questions were available to be explained by the researchers during the completing process. Questionnaires were checked before being adopted. The questionnaire contained 8 questions and cons...

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... . An article in USA Today journal reports that in a 2008 survey, about 80% of first year college students stated that their parents interfered in various college activities including their choice and enrollment (Marklein D.8). On another hand, students are not mature enough when making their choices, so they choose something because it is popular or 'cool' to their friends. They do ... rules the world in today's global life. Even though it has negative influences on students, it also has more advantages such as finding information faster, easier access to social networks, and homesc...

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... believe that the internet has improved our children's education. As Lefkowits argues, "Together, stakeholders' contributions to school improvement strategies could grow exponentially and virally in the same way one adds friends on Facebook." Although I think was she's saying is true, I believe more firmly that ... good. I feel that children who spend time on the computer, are replacing what could be great time used for school work with surfing and gaming. "Recent research, including a University of Munich study of 174,000 students in thirty-one countries, indicates that students who freq...

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... can be seen as either beneficial or detrimental to traditional (in person) relationships. The first step to identifying a potential social media addiction case is to see where the emotional and mental attachment rests in the social media user. Researchers discovered that there are five motivations for the addictive behavior in social media addicts. These five motivations are surveillance, escape, ... agree that males have increased odds of acquiring internet social media addiction. They also address that men have longer sitting periods than females using social media such as dating site...

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