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Date	Lecture	Topics	Reading
May 1	Bobby Bailey	Government Involvement in the Internet II	The US government's intervention on the Internet: The good and the bad CISPA: 4 Viewpoints You Should Hear
Apr 26	Tom Ferris	Netiquette	Netiquette – What is it and why should you care? Netiquette, Shmetiquette?
Apr 24	Josh Schwarz	Technology in Education	Teaching the iGeneration The Social Media Dilemma
Apr 19	Cory Boyle	Darknets and Crypto-anarchism	The dark side of the internet The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution
Apr 17	Chris Mhley	Game Industry Ethics II	Games - the ethics issue Game creators tackle ethical issues
Apr 12	Tori Bare	Robot Rights	Robots Will Never be People and Should Never Have Rights Will robots get married?
Apr 10	Jason Cluck	Pirate Parties	Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament The Fight Against Copyright Enforcement & The Fight For Civil Liberties Are The Same
Apr 3	Drew Wicke	Smart Cities II	Conceptualizing Smart City with Dimensions of Technology, People, and Institutions Beyond Smart Cities: It’s Really All About the People
Mar 29	Tom Ferris	Cyberbullying	Cyberbullying Megan Meier's Story
Mar 27	Josh Schwarz	Internet Addiction	Internet Addiction: A New Clinical Phenomenon and its Consequences Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents: A Decade of Research
Mar 22	Drew Wicke	Smart Cities	IBM, Cisco and the business of smart cities VIdeo from IBM about their proposed method for public safety
Mar 20	Cory Boyle	Cyberactivism	Should we cheer or fear cyber vigilantes like Anonymous? Paws Up: A Sticky Situation
Mar 15	Tori Bare	Automation in the Workplace	Ethical issues concerning robots and android humanoids Are Jobs Obsolete?
Mar 13	Jason Cluck	Music Piracy	Ethical Issues in the Music Industry Response to Innovation and Piracy A $13 billion fantasy: latest music piracy study overstates effect of P2P
Mar 8	Bobby Bailey	Government Involvement in the Internet	The Shadow Web, Julian Dibbell (Scientific American - 3/12) Nothing to LOL About, Rama Ramaswami (T H E Journal - 6/10)
Mar 6	Chris Mhley	Game Industry Ethics	Playing With Ethics: Video Game Controversy Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association
Feb 16		Global issues	Textbook Ch. 9.1-9.4 Living in a Digital World, Samuel Greengard (ACM - 10/11) Activism vs. Slacktivism, Dennis McCafferty (ACM - 12/11)
Feb 14	Lecture 6 Lecture 7	DRM, DMCA, Open Source	Textbook Ch. 4.4-4.5, 4.8 Remix Nation, Rebecca Tushnet (ACM - 9/11) Open Source Software: Lessons from and for Software Engineering, Brian Fitzgerald (IEEE - 10/11) Increased Security Through Open Source, Hoepman and Jacobs (ACM - 1/07)
Feb 9	Lecture 5	Privacy	Textbook Ch. 5.7-5.11 A Matter of Privacy, David Lindley (ACM - 12/10) The Final Frontier: Confidentiality and Privacy in the Cloud, Rocha, Abreu, Correia (IEEE - 9/11)
Feb 7		Security	Textbook Ch. 6.1-6.3 Risky Business, Leah Hoffman (ACM - 11/11) Internet Security Under Attack: The Undermining of Digital Certificates, Neal Leavitt (IEEE - 12/11)
Feb 2		Patent Trolling	Why Do Software Startups Patent (or Not)?, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 11/10) Buy, Sell, or Troll?, Patricia S. Abril and Robert Plant (ACM - 1/07)
Jan 31	Lecture 4	Intellectual Property	Textbook Ch. 4.1-4.3, 4.7 Intellectual Property, Part I, Gaff, Loren, and McCool (IEEE - 1/12)
Jan 26	Lecture 3	Software Liability	Textbook Ch. 7.1-7.7 The Software Industry is the Problem, Poul-Henning Kamp (ACM - 11/11)
Jan 24	Lecture 2	SECEPP	Textbook Ch. 8.1-8.3 The Profession and Digital Technology, Neville Holmes (IEEE - 12/11)
Jan 19	Lecture 1	Ethical Theories	Textbook Ch. 2