Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Digital Safety Reflection


Digital Safety

 

            Digital Safety was the last group project we have to do in our class. It took us three weeks to do the work such as doing research on each group’s given to topic. I did not quite understand what the main purpose of it was until I finally do some research on some parts of our topic, but most especially by seeing all those information presented by all the groups including ours. From my own point to view, I found it the entire topic very interesting and helpful because I realized or might not even know if I already did some of works or things that weren’t right until this last project. However, since now I know what the dos and don’ts mean, I will be careful on doing my work on the net.

          Most of the presentation we did was targeting on network users, but mostly the young ones because those were the most affected ones. For example, the group that were doing a presentation on Cyber Bulling did a very excellent job on explaining how it affect the young ones, and how it can leads to some very bad situation. Like I’ve mention that I did not realized about how cyber bulling can become the cause of some things. For example, I was surprise on how cyber bulling can lead to low self-esteem, bad mood, and feeling of loss of control (Psychological Effects of Bulling, updated in sep. 2014).

          In addition to, our group did a presentation on the digital safety of fair use and copyright.

I did not find this very important until I did a research on it and did a group presentation. From my own understanding that copyright means you cannot copy else’s creation until you gets the owner’s approval. Well, I found out in my research that there were four (4) main exceptions to copyright. And the four (4) exceptions were the public domain, permission, legal exception, and fair use. These were the only four exceptions you can used to copy someone else’s work. For example, works that were created before 1894 were in the public domain (Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States 2014). These were some of the important works I found very interesting in the digital safety project.

          All in all, These topics we did our presentation on were very important, because they can be the key to prevent anybody from getting harm, or going to court, or even the end the life’s of others. I am so glad we have this topic because I learned a lot from it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources:

-Psychological Effects of Bullying

(www. Nobullying.com/the effect-of-cyber-bullying)

 

-Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

(www.copyright.cornell.edu/resouces/publicdomian.cfm)