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## Let's start at 12:10PM

- Take a moment to review the **Week 6** folder
- Recorded session to be made available on YouTube (unlisted)
- Please check out weekly **Research Reading Group** videos

#### In case of connection dropoff

- Immediate announcement on shared Slack using mobile data
- Leave and revisit the session recording later
- Stick around in the chat room if it allows

#### Formal cancellation if attempts fail in the next 10 minutes

- Solitary session recording for reference

#### View online at https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w6

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## Let's get started ...

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## The Virtual Organization

#### PC 8005 - School of Professional Communication - Week 6

https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w6

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### Start brainstorming for A#2

- Written feedback for A#1 no later than October 25, 2020

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## Assignment #2

#### Interactive Wireframe

- Demonstrates visual design and user experience
- Multiple screens that are connected together using hyperlinks
- **Live preview link** (Figma, Adobe XD, etc.)
- Evaluated using various criteria (25%)
- More details available on D2L

#### Due November 8, 2020 at 11:59 PM

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### Upcoming deadlines

- **End of this week**: Coding Exercise #3 - mashup application
- **Week 8**: Assignment #2 - interactive wireframe

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## Any questions?

Moving onto the this week's content ...

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### Research Reading Group, Set #1

- Personification of AI
- Open Banking
- Fuel Cells
- Deepfake Video Technology

#### Videos available on D2L

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## Today's agenda

- **Brief history of antitrust attention**
- Content ratings and parental control
- Censorship and circumvention

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## Big Tech hearings

#### Quickly surpasses Big Oil + Big Media

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## UK Red Flag Act

#### "6.4km per hour, no steam, person must lead the car"

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## Cartels, trusts, robber baron

#### "In their greed and power ... sway over a helpless democracy"

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## Sherman Act

#### "Protect the public from the failure of the market."

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## Standard Oil dissolution

#### 34 individual companies

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## Clayton Act and FTC

#### Increased government capacity to intervene

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## Labour unions

#### Indirect control over corporate governance

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## US v. IBM

#### Predatory pricing, bundling, and empty promises

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## US v. AT&T

#### Creating regional "Baby Bell" companies

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## US v. Microsoft

#### “Take away their oxygen supply” ... “crush them”

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## Formation of Big Tech

#### Consumer reliance on digital technologies

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## Convergence

#### One device for various activities

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## Ineffective autoregulation

#### Amazon: designed losses and antitrust immunity

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## Politicians

#### Limited understanding of technologies

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## Future of Google

#### "The Internet’s most-used website has been getting worse."

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## Today's agenda

- Brief history of antitrust attention
- **Content ratings and parental control**
- Censorship and circumvention

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## Moral panic

#### "Won't somebody think of the children?"

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## Comic books

#### Ratings system for the 1930s comics

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## Films

#### Motion picture ratings of the 1960s

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## "Filthy Fifteen"

#### Advocacy groups for regulation

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## Parental Advisory

#### Niche marketing tactic

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## Mortal Kombat

#### Realistic depiction of violence

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## Government intervention

#### "Encouraging criminality ... is this responsible?"

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## Rise of ESRB

#### Self-regulatory board with no government oversight

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## V-Chip

#### Chip that can decode TV signals

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## Content filter

#### Controlling accessible website

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## Scheduling

#### Tools for monitoring children's activity

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## GPS

#### Location-based tracking

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## Anxiety and cyberbullying

#### Rules and device control generally ineffective

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## Today's agenda

- Brief history of antitrust attention
- Content ratings and parental control
- **Censorship and circumvention**

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## Cyberspace as refuge

#### "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

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## Censorship at large

#### YouTube blocking by country

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## Reporters Without Borders

#### "Enemies of the Internet": North Korea, China, United States ...

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## Golden Shield Project

#### Technological mechanism for social control

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## IP and keyword filtering

#### Creative solution around passing information

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## Proxy

#### Ability to "piggy back" on other machines

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## Virtual Private Network

#### Commercial application of routed network

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## Severing physical cable

#### Nation-level intranet

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## Internet shutdown

#### Dictatorial states abuse control over infrastructure

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## Takeaways

- Regulation as a positive force in ensuring consumer protection
- Content filtering a constant in popular culture
- Internet censorship a reality away from the First World

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### Tasks for this week

#### Listed in order of priority

- Brainstorming work on **Assignment #2** 
- Coding exercise #3 
- Research reading group videos
- Course readings

#### More details available on D2L

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### Things to expect next week

- Contemporary Topics: Content Strategy for Digital Media

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## The Virtual Organization

#### PC 8005 - School of Professional Communication - Week 6

https://ckportfolio.com/slides/pc8005-w6