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World Issues - November 28 - December 4

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Read the following articles and use them as background for the discussion this week.
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Swedes raise barriers on all fronts
Progress in an Ancient Tongue
Nations Plan for Net's Future
India Emerges as Innovation Hub
Cell Phone Users Are Finding God
Brazilians Hot For Broadband
Great firewall of China

Stelios Kourakis Computer Scientist, MA Digital Arts. Stelios is an investigator on interactive communication in the Technology Department of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. He has worked on various multimedia projects, from interactive documentaries and educational applications to artificial intelligence, games and collaboration environments. Since 2003 he is a member of the European Academy of Digital Media.

Stelios is a multimedia programming professor in various postgraduate
degrees given by the audiovisual institute at UPF. He is currently
enrolled in the PhD on Computer Science and Digital Communication,
researching online communities.

Anthony Pennings, Ph.D. heads the program in New Media Studies at New York University. Dr. Pennings has research interests in the globalization of the Internet and World Wide Web

Go to NUA and gather some current statistics concerning online use in different areas of the world. Do not focus just on a particular country, but rather look at world regions.

Refer to this exercise in the discussion.

Use the following question to BEGIN this week's discussion

Is it feasible for counties to censor the material that their citizens can view from online sources?

Go to the Bulletin Board and begin the discussion

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