student guide to IP, internet architecture, proxy servers, etc.?
Hi all, I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online, including somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary censorship and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor, Walid Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data, etc.) What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must be a good set of available responses. That is, many of my students, however gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on. While I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly for more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc. So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge? Many thanks in advance, - charles ess == Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess@media.uio.no
On 2/15/17 6:37 AM, Charles Ess wrote:
So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Hi Charles, I used to be fortunate and Jessica McKellar would visit my class [0] and give her Internet 101 talk. She moved to the other coast, but luckily her talk is also on YouTube, so excerpts of that video our now the core of our 101 discussion [1][2]. It doesn't address proxies directly, but it sets the stage for our subsequent discussions about ads, privacy, proxies and the like. I hope other folks will share their resources as well as I've yet to find readings for that day [0] that I'm completely happy with. [0]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/cda-syllabus-SP.html#jan-20-fri---how-the-... [1]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/talks/040-internet-101.html [2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/handouts/040-internet-101.html
Hi I’d suggest Tactical Tech’s resources to learn about how the internet and mobiles work. There are lots of resources and activities to choose from: https://myshadow.org/train _Maya
On 15-Feb-2017, at 1:52 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> wrote:
On 2/15/17 6:37 AM, Charles Ess wrote:
So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Hi Charles, I used to be fortunate and Jessica McKellar would visit my class [0] and give her Internet 101 talk. She moved to the other coast, but luckily her talk is also on YouTube, so excerpts of that video our now the core of our 101 discussion [1][2]. It doesn't address proxies directly, but it sets the stage for our subsequent discussions about ads, privacy, proxies and the like.
I hope other folks will share their resources as well as I've yet to find readings for that day [0] that I'm completely happy with.
[0]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/cda-syllabus-SP.html#jan-20-fri---how-the-... [1]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/talks/040-internet-101.html [2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/handouts/040-internet-101.html
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Hi, hope these are useful to you. student level resource from stanford: https://web.stanford.edu/ class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetWhitepaper.htm brief guide to history of internet: http://www.investintech.com/ content/historyinternet/ One of my favorite approaches to this issue is "what happens when..." JBQ's post from that perspective, "Dizzying but invisible complexity": https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe intro level article: http://edusagar.com/articles/ view/70/What-happens-when-you-type-a-URL-in-browser crowdsourced in-depth technical details: https://github.com/alex/what- happens-when On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> wrote:
On 2/15/17 6:37 AM, Charles Ess wrote:
So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Hi Charles, I used to be fortunate and Jessica McKellar would visit my class [0] and give her Internet 101 talk. She moved to the other coast, but luckily her talk is also on YouTube, so excerpts of that video our now the core of our 101 discussion [1][2]. It doesn't address proxies directly, but it sets the stage for our subsequent discussions about ads, privacy, proxies and the like.
I hope other folks will share their resources as well as I've yet to find readings for that day [0] that I'm completely happy with.
[0]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/cda-syllabus-SP.html#jan- 20-fri---how-the-web-works [1]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/talks/040-internet-101.html [2]: http://reagle.org/joseph/2017/cda/handouts/040-internet-101.html
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On 2/15/17 8:22 AM, lewis levenberg wrote:
student level resource from stanford: https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetW... <https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetWhitepaper.htm>
Nice. And this reminds me I recently came across this nice comic: <http://jvns.ca/networking-zine.pdf>
I do a bit of this in the chapter that starts the social media handbook, interface and infrastructure of social media. But really I only do the base amount to start a conversation, https://www.academia.edu/12296742/Interface_and_Infrastructure_of_Social_Med... On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online, including somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary censorship and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor, Walid Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data, etc.) What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must be a good set of available responses. That is, many of my students, however gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on. While I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly for more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc. So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Many thanks in advance, - charles ess == Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/>
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Hi all, One more I ought not to have left off -- this article balances big-picture and detail-oriented issues well for students, and it's written quite accessibly. https://cyber.harvard.edu/digitaldemocracy/internetarchitecture.html On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Jeremy Hunsinger <jeremy@tmttlt.com> wrote:
I do a bit of this in the chapter that starts the social media handbook, interface and infrastructure of social media. But really I only do the base amount to start a conversation, https://www.academia.edu/12296742/Interface_and_ Infrastructure_of_Social_Media
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online, including somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary censorship and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor, Walid Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data, etc.) What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must be a good set of available responses. That is, many of my students, however gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on. While I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly for more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc. So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Many thanks in advance, - charles ess == Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/>
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Dear Professor Charles The below video shows a simple demonstration of basic internet traffic flow , which can be helpful: https://youtu.be/PBWhzz_Gn10 Thanks and Regards Azfar Adib Dhaka,Bangladesh On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, Charles Ess <charles.ess@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online, including somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary censorship and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor, Walid Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data, etc.) What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must be a good set of available responses. That is, many of my students, however gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on. While I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly for more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc. So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help begin to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge?
Many thanks in advance, - charles ess == Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/>
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