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This document discusses various types of cyber crimes such as hacking, child pornography, denial of service attacks, and software piracy. It provides examples of hacking, how the internet enables abuse of children, denial of service attacks by groups, and viruses/malware. Cyber terrorism, cyber vandalism, and internet security measures are also mentioned. The key topics covered are different cyber crimes, how computers can be used as targets and weapons, and security best practices.
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This document discusses e-commerce security and payment systems from a textbook. It covers several topics:
- Common security threats to e-commerce like malware, hacking, phishing, and denial of service attacks.
- Technologies used to secure e-commerce transactions and communication channels, including encryption methods, digital signatures, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems.
- Specific security issues related to mobile commerce and cloud services.
- Payment systems and the typical process of an e-commerce transaction, including vulnerable points that could be exploited by threats.
This presentation tells about digital marketing meaning and crimes related to it.Any illegal behavior directed by means of electronic operations. that targets the security of computer systems and the data. processed by them is termed cyber crime.
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Many transactions such as sale of goods, transfer of information, transfer of funds and even buying air tickets could be done through the use of computers. The existing laws that governs transactions and information did not address such issues as they were made before the IT era.
This document provides an alphabetical list of terms related to cyber crimes, beginning with "Anonymizer" and ending with "Zombie". Each term is defined in 1-2 paragraphs. Some key terms summarized include:
- Anonymizer - A tool that hides a user's identity and location when browsing the internet. It can enable criminal behavior by avoiding consequences.
- ARP cache poisoning - A technique where an attacker sends fake ARP messages to intercept and alter network data like passwords or credit card numbers.
- Cyber stalking - The use of electronic devices to stalk or harass someone repeatedly in a threatening manner. Most states have laws against cyber stalking.
- DOS/DDOS attacks -
Impacts of spoofing- why it’s a serious cybersecurity concerndeorwine infotech
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This document discusses various types of cyber crimes such as hacking, child pornography, denial of service attacks, and software piracy. It provides examples of hacking, how the internet enables abuse of children, denial of service attacks by groups, and viruses/malware. Cyber terrorism, cyber vandalism, and internet security measures are also mentioned. The key topics covered are different cyber crimes, how computers can be used as targets and weapons, and security best practices.
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need help with a term paper 8 pages Write a term paper that discusse.pdfanjandavid
need help with a term paper 8 pages Write a term paper that discusses the risks of pharming and
phishing with respect to identity theft, including spam emails claiming to come from well-known
companies and financial institutions. Including in your paper a discussion of some of the current
techniques being deployed to reduce pharming and phishing, including how effective they are\".
Solution
Pharming:
Pharming (pronounced ‘farming’) is a form of online fraud which is similar to phishing as these
guyz rely upon the same bogus websites and theft of confidential information. However, where
phishing will forward the user to the website through ‘bait’ in the form of a phony email or link,
pharming re-directs victims to the bogus site even if the victim has typed the correct web
address. This is often applied to the websites of well known banks or e-commerce sites, which
considerably dreadful.
Phissing:
Phishing is a form of fraud in which the criminals will try to learn information such as login
credentials or account information by masquerading as a reputable entity or person in email, IM
or other communication channels.Phishing email messages, websites, and phone calls are
designed to steal money. Online frauds can do this by installing malicious software on your
computer. It is a type of an email that falsely claims to be a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to
scam the user into surrendering private information.
Difference between Phissing and Pharming:
Both Phissing and Pharming are entirely two different concepts that are applied to steal the
customer information online.
While pharming is still considered a subset of phishing, it refers to a specific type of phishing
using DNS hijacking or poisoning to forward the user\'s browser to fraudulent sites or servers.
Pharming was keep on increasing from 2005 but has decreased slightly this year due to increased
diligence of domain controls, and is therefore employed less than the phishing exploits
mentioned above.
Special Notes:
From February 2005 to August 2005, worldwide there was a large number of pharming attacks,
due to common misconfigurations of DNS servers that made them accept the poison. While we
still see a trickle of pharming attacks today, most DNS servers have improved their poisoning
defenses, thereby lowering the incident of attacks. Don\'tget fooled, though, they are still out
there and we have to be diligent. If you run a Windows-based DNS server, make sure you have
enabled the \"Secure Cache Against Pollution\" option in the configuration GUI (the default for
recent versions of Windows DNS server). Also, never use Windows DNS servers configured to
forward requests through BIND 4 or 8. Windows DNS servers acting as forwarders should
always go through BIND 9, which can cleanse potentially poisoned records.
Risk of Phissing:
We can come to some general conclusions on the business risks of phishing attacks based on this
year\'s rash of privacy breaches. Phishing attacks ended in per.
The document discusses cybercrime and provides information on six major types: 1) hacking, 2) cyber stalking, 3) online identity theft, 4) online child abuse, 5) ransomware attacks, and 6) internet fraud. It emphasizes the importance of understanding different cybercrimes in order to protect yourself and provides tips for organizations to strengthen cybersecurity such as tightening security systems, using software patches, encrypting data, and purchasing cyber insurance.
Web spoofing involves masquerading as another user or program to gain an illegitimate advantage. There are several types of spoofing, including IP spoofing where the sender address is falsified, and web spoofing where an adversary can observe and modify web pages sent to the victim. Defenses include ingress/egress filtering to block spoofed IP addresses, and users verifying URLs and SSL certificates when entering sensitive information online.
This document discusses various topics related to information technology ethics and security. It covers computer crime, hacking tactics, cyber theft, software piracy, viruses and worms, adware and spyware, privacy issues, and methods for protecting systems through encryption, firewalls, and other security measures. The goal of security management is to ensure the accuracy, integrity and safety of information systems and resources.
Today's enterprises face increasing cybersecurity threats from a variety of sources such as cybercriminals, terrorists, and insiders. Users need to be aware of security guidelines to protect confidential information and systems. Some key recommendations include using secure protocols, protecting physical access to systems, scanning files before downloading, enabling multifactor authentication, keeping systems patched and passwords strong. Social engineering is a major threat, so users should be cautious of phishing attempts, not leave sensitive information unattended, and verify requests for personal information.
This document discusses cyberspace, cybercrime, and cyber security. It defines cyberspace as the medium of computer systems used for communication, research, and browsing. Cybercrime is defined as crime committed using computers and the internet, where the computer is the object or subject of the crime. Examples of cybercrimes discussed include hacking, child pornography, computer vandalism, denial of service attacks, virus dissemination, software piracy, and phishing. The document also discusses the history of cybercrime and provides examples of hacking tools like keyloggers and sniffers that are used by cybercriminals. It emphasizes the importance of cyber security and provides recommendations for protecting against cybercrime.
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Cyber crime encompasses any criminal acts involving computers and networks, including traditional crimes committed online like identity theft and credit card fraud. Evidence has shifted from physical documents to data stored digitally. Common cyber crimes include card and online auction fraud, phishing and pharming scams, and 419 scams. Key cyber crime terms are defined, including phishing, spear phishing, pretexting, spoofing, and smishing. Mobile devices are increasingly targeted through malware and keyloggers. The document provides tips for strong, unique passwords and using security software to protect devices and accounts.
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The document discusses phishing attacks and mitigations. It defines phishing as a cybercrime where targets are contacted to provide sensitive data by posing as a legitimate institution. Phishing kits are used to replicate brand websites to steal data. Common types of phishing include email, SMS, phone calls and targeted spear phishing. The document outlines techniques to avoid phishing and its effects on businesses, including reputational damage, loss of customers, regulatory fines and disruption. It concludes with demonstrations of phishing methods.
1. Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people.
2. Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work.
3. Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's files without permission.
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack that attempts to steal user data like login credentials. It works by tricking users into clicking links or downloading files that can install malware. Phishing has been around for decades and is still one of the most common cyberattacks. It often leads to financial losses from stolen funds or data breaches. Common phishing techniques include link manipulation, smishing (phishing via text), vishing (phishing via phone), fake websites, and pop-up messages. Spotting and avoiding phishing requires being wary of urgent or threatening language, suspicious links and files, and requests for private information from unexpected sources.
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oncept of collection
. Assume that An agency has focused its system development and critical infrastructure data collection efforts on separate engineering management systems for different types of assets and is working on the integration of these systems. In this case, the agency focused on the data collection for two types of assets: water treatment and natural gas delivery management facilities.
Please identify what type of critical infrastructure data collection is needed for pavement and storm water management facilities.
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Concept of Aesthetics
OVERVIEW
Aesthetics is defined as an appreciation for beauty and a feeling of wonder. Teachers can help
develop children’s aesthetic senses by involving them in the arts through introduction to works
of art, music, dance, and literature. Children’s aesthetic sensibilities are enhanced by allowing
them to explore their environment in a manner that encourages divergent thinking. In discussing
art with children, basic elements such as line, color, form, space, and design are all appropriate.
Teachers can create aesthetic opportunities in the classroom by providing children with
materials, supplies, room décor, objects, books, visiting artists, and varied activities to stimulate
their aesthetic sense.
There are three basic ways to provide young children with developmentally appropriate
aesthetic experiences in the early childhood program:
Provide many opportunities to create art.
Provide many opportunities to look at and talk about art.
Help children become aware of art in their everyday lives.
Developing children’s aesthetic sensitivity is important because it improves the quality of their
learning and encourages the creative process.
KEY TERMS
aesthetic development
—
Teaching young children to appreciate art through everyday
experiences, play, and conversations
aesthetic experiences
—
Experiences involving an appreciation of the beauty of nature, the
rhythm and imagery of music or poetry, or the qualities of works of art.
aesthetic learning
—
Joining what one thinks with what one feels
Aesthetics Movement
—
Movement in the world beginning in early 1800 and lasting the
decade, emphasizing the “science of the beautiful” or the “philosophy of taste.”
aesthetics
—
An appreciation for beauty and a feeling of wonder. It is a sensibility that uses the
imagination as well as the five senses.
aesthetic sense —
One’s own specific taste or preference.
art appreciation
— Seeing and appreciating good artwork; learning to look at and learning to
create visual arts
art elements
—
Basic factors of art that can be used to describe art. These elements include
color, line, form or shape, space, and design.
balance —
The principle of design that deals with visual weight in a work of art
color/hue —
The color name
pattern —
When a particular shape, color, or motif is repeated in a rhythmic way
intensity —
The varied color when a hue’s complementary color, the color opposite it on the
color wheel, is added to the original color
language of art —
Expansion of the language of the early childhood classroom.
The words of
the language are the elements of art.
line —
A continuous mark on a surface
multicultural aesthetics —
A worldview of art which honors heritage, community, and tradition
multimedia artwork —
Integration of art such as walk-in sculpture environments; mixes of live
dance and films; and art exhibitions with drama, where actors move into the audience to engage
in the drama
primary colors —
Red, blue, and yellow.
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to written or verbal descriptions. Pictures and structured diagrams are thought to be
more comprehensible than just words, and a clearer way to illustrate understanding of
complex topics. Variants of these tools are available under different names: ‘‘concept
mapping’’, ‘‘mind mapping’’ and ‘‘argument mapping’’. Sometimes these terms are used
synonymously. However, as this paper will demonstrate, there are clear differences in
each of these mapping tools. This paper offers an outline of the various types of tool
available and their advantages and disadvantages. It argues that the choice of mapping
tool largely depends on the purpose or aim for which the tool is used and that the tools
may well be converging to offer educators as yet unrealised and potentially comple-
mentary functions.
Keywords Concept mapping � Mind mapping � Computer-aided argument mapping �
Critical thinking � Argument � Inference-making � Knowledge mapping
Introduction
In the past 5–10 years, a variety of software packages have been developed that enable the
visual display of information, concepts and relations between ideas. These mapping tools
take a variety of names including: ‘‘concept mapping’’, ‘‘mind mapping’’ or ‘‘argument
mapping’’. The potential of these tools for educational purposes is only now starting to be
realised.
M. Davies (&)
University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
e-mail: [email protected]
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High Educ (2011) 62:279–301
DOI 10.1007/s10734-010-9387-6
The idea of displaying complex information visually is, of course, quite old. Flow
charts, for example, were developed in 1972 (Nassi and Shneiderman 1973) pie charts and
other visual formats go back much earlier (Tufte 1983). More recently, visual displays
have been used to simplify complex philosophical issues (Horn 1998). Formal ways of
‘‘mapping’’ complex information—as opposed to the earth’s surface, countries, cities and
other destinations—began at least 30 years ago, and arguably even earlier.
More recently, the use of information and computer technology has enabled information
mapping to be achieved with far greater ease. A plethora of software tools has been
developed to meet various information mapping needs. What do these tools do? What are
their similarities and differences? What are their advantages and disadvantages? How
precisely do t.
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CONCEPT MAPPING
Mid Term Assignment (Concept Mapping)
Vishvaksen Reddy Kanatala
Dr.Rand Obeidat
Enterprise Risk Management
Our hospital
General checkup
Offers
Medical Attention
Emergencies
of
Regular diseases
Through our
Skilled staffs
Under who conduct
Laboratory experiments
Security
Price consideration
or
to settle
Bill
For an enterprise risk management of health centre, the concepts for the enterprise risk management are the hospital itself, what they offer from medical attention of regular diseases and emergencies as well as a checkup of regular diseases. They the enterprise risk management should focus on how the health centre assures the quality of their service by the use of skilled staffs who conduct laboratory experiment when necessary to ascertain the actual diseases. These services are done at price consideration, or the clients can attack assets which can be used to settle the bill, which should be equivalent to the price consideration.
These concepts relate to each other because enterprise risk management is all about proper control of finances thus for a health centre they, the concept in which they undergo transaction is through the treatment of clients which should be managed effectively and closely monitored to avoid losses. According to the kind of medication given to the client, there should be the amount that the client should pay for the financial stability of the health centre.
The relationship between the concepts in the concept map and the idea to be discussed in the paper is how a hospital goes through until it can reach a point where it can demand payments. The paper is on finances management; thus, the need to show how financial transactions in a hospital are reached t point of declaring the.
The concepts in the concepts maps are connected by the use of verbs as well as conjunctions accordingly to connect one each concept with the other.
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Concept A The first concept that I appreciated in the.docxpatricke8
The document discusses two key concepts - negligence and informed consent. Regarding negligence, it is defined as a failure to act that results in harm to an individual. This could include failing to order dialysis for a patient in need. As a nurse manager, it is important to ensure staff follow policies to avoid negligence and maintain duty of care. The second concept discussed is informed consent, which the Joint Commission defines as a communication process that results in a patient authorizing a specific medical intervention. Informed consent requires fully informing patients on diagnosis, treatment options, risks, benefits and obtaining their signed consent. As a nurse manager, it is critical to ensure all patients undergoing procedures have a valid informed consent form.
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Concept Analysis (1,000 words). Deadline: 13:00, 11 March 2021. Concepts lie at the heart of any academic field, and IR is no exception. They help us make sense about the worldand provide a ‘bridge’ between our ideas and the real world. This module will be introducing you to a number of key concepts in IR – as well as some of the debates which swirl around these concepts. This assessment asks youto choose one of these key concepts, and undertake your own research in order to establish the various ways in which the concept is defined and used in the field of IR. You will need to identify and locate appropriate academic sources, engage critically with that material, and construct a piece of writing which conforms to academic conventions.Your analysis needs to be 1,000 words in length, and address the competing meanings of, and debates around, your chosen concept. It needs to be rooted in the field of IR and engage with academic texts which address or use the concept.
The concept is globalisation.
Your concept analysis should address the following aspects:
➢ Who are the main IR theorists who explore this topic
➢ What do they say about this concept?
➢ What are the connections between your chosen concept and other key concepts in IR
In assessing the concept analysis, staff will consider the degree to which:▪ The student’s characterisation of the relevant concept is accurate
▪ The student has engaged with appropriate academic sources
▪ The student has considered a range of definitions, uses and perspectives relating to the concept▪ The analysis is logically and coherently structured
▪ The student has adhered to scholarly conventions in citing sources and producing a bibliography
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Concentration in the mobile operating systems
market
Maurizio Naldi
Universitỳ of Rome Tor Vergata
Department of Computer Science and Civil Engineering
Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
[email protected]
Abstract. Concentration phenomena concern the ICT market. Though
the regulatory action has been active mainly in the telecom network
operators industry, even more significant worldwide concentration phe-
nomena affect other industries. The market of mobile operating systems
is analysed through two concentration indices to get a quantitative pic-
ture of the current situation and its evolution over time: the Hirschman
Herfindahl Index (HHI) and the Four-Firm Concentration Ratio (CR4).
A strongly imbalanced oligopoly is shown to exist, where the four major
operating systems take over 99% of the market, but the dominant oper-
ating system Android alone is installed on over 80% of the new devices.
Keywords: Operating Systems; Concentration; Competition; HHI
1 Introduction
Market structure and the presence of dominant operators (manufacturers and/or
service providers) has been a significant field of activity in industrial policy since
long [18]. An operator holding a very large share of the market, or even acting
as a monopolist, may take advantage of its position and enforce unfair poli-
cies towards its customers, which in turn have little or no room to oppose. The
attention for the appearance of dominant positions is at the root of the birth
of a number of national anti-trust agencies, both at the national and superna-
tional level [6], which enforce rules against anticompetitive agreements, abuses
of dominant position as well as concentrations (e.g., mergers and acquisitions,
joint ventures) which may create or strengthen dominant positions detrimental
to competition.
The issue is particularly delicate in ICT industries, where operators may
often benefit of economies of scale, which would lead to a natural monopolistic
structure as the most efficient one [15]. Noam has carried out a broad analysis
of concentration phenomena in several ICT and ICT-related industries [13] [14]:
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In that survey, the highest HHI value is observed for search engines and is
roughly 0.75, quite above the second highest value, which is 0.55 and pertains
to the wireline telco market.
However, the survey of [13] leaves out a market that has often been at the
center of anti-trust disputes in recent years, which is the operating systems one.
The most notable ones have been the U.S.A. vs Microsoft case for the Windows
desktop operating system [4], and the very recent Statement of Objections raised
by the EU vs Google for the mobile operating system Android [1].
In that Statement of Objections, the European Commission alleges that
Google has b.
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 33.1
March 2007: 75-85
Nervous Tracery:
Modern Analogies between Gothic Architecture
and Scholasticism
Joseph C. Murphy
Fu Jen Catholic University
Abstract
During the Gothic revivals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
Gothic architecture shed the morbid associations attached to it in earlier
periods and was admired for the aesthetic and theological vision that shaped
its medieval development. The Gothic cathedral came to epitomize the
wholeness of the Middle Ages and an impulse toward synthesis in theology as
well as the arts. This essay surveys four Gothic revival texts that define a
relationship between medieval Gothic architecture and Scholastic theology:
John Ruskin’s essay “The Nature of Gothic” in The Stones of Venice (1851-
53); Henry Adams’ Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904); Wilhelm
Worringer’s Form in Gothic (Formprobleme der Gotik, 1911); and Erwin
Panofsky’s Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (1951). In these widely
read works, influential beyond the field of art history, the seemingly arcane
analogy between the Gothic and the Scholastic becomes a proving ground for
the projects of prominent intellectuals within distinct historical and cultural
contexts. For each author, the meaning of the Gothic hangs in a particular
balance between its tracery—that is, its naturalistic ornamental detail—and its
larger structure: the balance between the concrete and the abstract, between
multiplicity and unity, also achieved in Scholastic theology. Because their
analogies between the Gothic and the Scholastic isolate distinct lines of force
within these complex systems, Ruskin, Adams, Worringer, and Panofsky each
identify different values there, revealing as much about the modern mind as
about the medieval. The syntheses that their medieval forbears accomplished
collectively in service of faith, these interpreters seek independently in service
of their own cultural identity, aesthetic values, or intellectual coherence.
Keywords
Gothic architecture, Scholasticism, John Ruskin, Henry Adams,
Wilhelm Worringer, Erwin Panofsky, Thomas Aquinas
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The Gothic style presents an interesting case of how the Middle Ages have
persisted in Western history through the backward glances, sometimes leery,
sometimes wistful, of subsequent periods. First arising in the seventeenth century as
a derogatory term for the anti-classical, “barbarous” style adopted by European
cathedral builders beginning in the twelfth century, the word “Gothic” became
attached in the eighteenth century to a type of sensational narrative set in
infelicitous buildings. During the Gothic revivals of the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, Gothic architecture shed its morbid associations and was
admired both for its aesthetic form and for the integral relationship of that form to a
theological vision. Symbolizing, as Arthur Sym.
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Con: Should the United States government have bailed out the automobile
industry?
Introduction
A. In 2009, the .“Big Three” (GM, Chrysler, and ford) were facing fmancial struggles.
They were fuced with a decision: either try and work through their problem on their own
by securing loans, or to go to the government for help. Of the Big Three, only Ford
declined government assistance, having already secured a line ofcredit in 2006 by using
all of their assets as collateral. GM and Chrysler filed for a managed Chapter 11
bankruptcy that was funded primarily through the U.S. Treasury using taxpayer money.
This modified version ofChapter 11 bankruptcy that was implemented by the U.S.
government appeared to have allowed these automakers to survive for the time being, but
it came at the expense ofthe taxpayers and it did not address all ofthe problems that
caused the Big Three’s issues in the first place.
I. The Big Three’s poor managerial choices created their financial problems,
and the taxpayers’ money shouldn’t be bailing them out.
A. GM, Chrysler, and ford continued to focus on and mass produce large trucks and
SUVs because of their higher profit margins despite a growing concern over increasing
fuel prices between 2002-2007.
1. Research done by Thomas Klier of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
indicates that during the span of 2002-2007, “about 40 percent of the decrease in
U.S. market share has been caused by the recent increase in the price of gaso line.”
2. More specifically, research done by Meghan Busse and F brian Zettlemeyer of
Northwestern University and Christopher Knittle of UC Berkeley showed that
through the period of 1999-2006, “a$1 increein goIinepricewiII decree
the market share of cars in the least fuel efficient quartile (< 17.7 MPG) by
11.5%.... that a $1 increase in gasoline price will increase the market share of cars
inthemofu effidentquatile(>24.3MR3) by 15.1%”
B. They allowed legacy costs to build by continuing to give out large pension plans when
foreign auto makers were switching to more realistically defined contribution plans
(4OlKs) back in the $Os.
1. The average per-hour base salary ofa U.S. auto worker and a foreign auto
worker were about the same ($28/hour in 2007) but each worker actually cost
$73.21/hour compared to $44.17/hour of Japanese competitors, with the
difference being the additional benefits promised.
C. U.S. autornakers should have switched to defined contribution plans (4OlKs) in order
to stay competitive and keep costs sustainable.
1. GM didn’t officially freeze their pension plans until February of2012.
a. This meant that they would no longer contribute to the pension plans of
workers who were promised them upon employment. Those employees
would now receive 4OlKs (defined contribution plans), a change that
should have been made decades ago to avoid current financial struggles.
II. There was no market failure and the U.S. auto makei should have filed
for traditional Chapter 11 bankrup.
COMS 101
Persuasive Speech Instructions
This course requires you to present a persuasive speech to a live, visually documented audience of 3 or more adults. Use a video recording device to create an audible recording of this presentation for submission. After recording the presentation, upload it to YouTube as an unlisted video and post the video’s link to the instructor via the designated Blackboard assignment submission link. See the Posting Speech Videos to Blackboard via YouTube tutorial (in the Assignment Instructions folder) for step-by-step instruction about this process.
Your speech grade will be determined by the degree to which you satisfy the requirements listed below.
1. Choose an appropriate topic.
This assignment requires you to research a global, national, regional, state or local problem that apparently exists because humans in general or a specific group of humans are neglecting their duty to promote the things God values in this world.
· The problem may be political, economic, educational, environmental, medical, religious, or cultural. It may be a false belief or set of beliefs (about God, nature, or other people) that needs correction, a wrongful attitude or type of attitude (toward God, nature, or other people) that needs adjustment, a neglectful or wrong way of acting (toward God, nature, or other people) that needs to change, or a state of needfulness or brokenness that exists as it does because of human indifference or inactivity.
· The problem must be a social one that deters many individuals—not just a few isolated lives—from experiencing life according to God’s Word as he intended when he created the world the people in it.
Among the social issues that could generate a qualified speech topic are the following:
abortion, infanticide, or euthanasia
discrimination (racism, sexism, ageism)
abuse (child, elder, self, spousal)
ecology (climate change, pollution, littering)
addictions/codependency/eating disorders
education (underachievement or illiteracy)
air, land, or water pollution
famine, drought or diseases
animal abuse or vivisection
labor issues (child labor or sweatshops)
bioethics (cloning, eugenics, stem cell research)
marriage (divorce, cohabitation)
birth or population control
poverty (world hunger or homelessness)
crime (street, juvenile, gang, or white collar)
sex (pre-marital, extramarital, homosexual)
criminal justice (prison crowding, recidivism)
slavery or human trafficking
The following sites may be helpful for discovering or exploring these and other qualified topics:
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
The Heritage Foundation
Family Research Council
The Rutherford Institute
The American Enterprise Institute
The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life
The Discovery Institute
Speech Goals: Because this is a persuasive speech—a speech in which you try to persuade the audience to believe or value something or to act in a specific way—and because you are to use this particular speech to advocate a rede.
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COMS 040 Assignment:
Student Congress Bill
Choose an argument and then research it, and write a Congress Bill (a proposed law). (3-5 Whereas clauses) Whereas INSERT FACT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL/LEGISLATION
Whereas: INSERT FACT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL/LEGISLATION
Whereas: INSERT FACT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL/LEGISLATION.
Whereas: INSERT FACT IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL/LEGISLATION.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THIS STUDENT CONGRESS: insert proposed legislation.
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Industry experts believe blockchain is a technology that has the potential to affect the business of most IT profession-als in the next five years. Analyst Gartner has forecast that by 2023, blockchain will support the global movement and
tracking of $2tn of goods and services.
It is regarded by many industry watchers as a disrupting force
in the financial world. A PwC global financial technology (fintech)
survey found that 56% of respondents recognise the importance
of blockchain. At the same time, however, 57% admit to being
unsure about or unlikely to respond to this trend.
Start witH tHe HaSH
Blockchain is effectively a shared ledger between a group of
people – for example, a group of companies that work together
to produce a service or product. What makes blockchain differ-
ent is the fact that the history of the changes – past transactions,
for example – are immutable.
Essentially, the historical entries become read-only and
unchangeable. This is due to the fact that each blockchain
entry relies on the hash – a computed value including part of a
previous block as part of its hashing calculation for the current
block. This means that if a previous block is somehow modi-
fied or corrupted, its hash value will change and therefore the
values after that point become broken, making the tampering
evident for all to see.
One example where blockchain technology can be used is
where several companies come together to provide or consume
Blockchain:
hype vs reality
Regarded by many as a
disruptive force in finance
and beyond, blockchain
technology presents a number
of complex challenges that
must be overcome before
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promises. Stuart Burns reports
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services, usually under long-term contracts. It can be complex
and cumbersome to manage contracts involving several individu-
als, when multiple documents are involved and everyone needs
to agree on the same contract versions and details. Over time,
changes will occur that also need to be managed and agreed on.
Managing contracts in blockchain, however, means that rather
than p.
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Five days at an outdoor education camp without any screen time improved preteen students' ability to interpret nonverbal emotional cues from photos and videos. A group of 51 preteens spent five days at a nature camp without TVs, computers or phones and showed significantly greater gains in recognizing emotions than a control group of 54 students who had normal access to media. Spending time away from screens and immersed in face-to-face social interactions enhanced the camp group's skills at understanding nonverbal emotional cues.
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Computers in Human Behavior xxx (2012) xxx–xxx
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Critical thinking in E-learning environments
Raafat George Saadé a,⇑, Danielle Morin a,1, Jennifer D.E. Thomas b,2
a Concordia University, John Molson School of Business, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
b Pace University, Ivan Seidenberg School of CSIS, New York, NY, USA
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Keywords:
E-learning
Critical thinking
Assessment
Information technology
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a b s t r a c t
One of the primary aims of higher education in today’s information technology enabled classroom is to
make students more active in the learning process. The intended outcome of this increased IT-facilitated
student engagement is to foster important skills such as critical thinking used in both academia and
workplace environments. Critical thinking (CT) skills entails the ability(ies) of mental processes of discern-
ment, analysis and evaluation to achieve a logical understanding. Critical thinking in the classroom as well
as in the workplace is a central theme; however, with the dramatic increase of IT usage the mechanisms by
which critical thinking is fostered and used has changed. This article presents the work and results of
critical thinking in a virtual learning environment. We therefore present a web-based course and we
assess in which parts of the course, and to what extent, critical thinking was perceived to occur. The course
contained two categories of learning modules namely resources and interactive components. Critical
thinking was measured subjectively using the ART scale. Results indicate the significance of ‘‘interactivity’’
in what students perceived to be critical-thinking-oriented versus online material as a resource. Results
and opportunities that virtual environments present to foster critical thinking are discussed.
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1. Introduction
One of the primary aims of higher education in today’s informa-
tion technology (IT) enabled classroom, is to make students more
active in the learning process (Ibrahim & Samsa, 2009). The in-
tended outcome of this increased IT-facilitated student engage-
ment is to foster important skills such as critical thinking. Given
the importance of information technology for critical thinking in
learning, it is vital that we understand better the associated key
factors related to: background of students, beliefs, perceptions
and attitudes and associated anteceden.
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Computers can be used symbolically to intimidate, deceive or defraud victims. The basic law that protects our privacy is the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which mandates that people have a right to be secure in homes and against unreasonable search and seizure. What law(s) have been enacted to protect individuals at the state or federal government? Does these protection laws vary from state to state?
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Computers are often used to make work easier. However, sometimes c.docxpatricke8
Computers are often used to make work easier. However, sometimes computers can make work more difficult especially with poorly implementation. SOX is an important example of a poorly implemented database that has encountered. A database should have its specific intentions as much as data organization and management always exist as general functions. The SOX database implemented in 2011 was put in place to combat fraud by coming up with efficient accounting audit and management of financial records. I think the developers failed to include technical aspects of fraud control into the system. They instead targeted the visible crimes leaving very many holes for exploiting the SOX system (Anand et al., 2014).
The database seems vague from IT perspective. The database constitutes only two sections of codes relating to IT. These two sections merely meet the standards for testing IT sufficient auditing compliance by organizations. The database seems to be far off the role of fostering sufficient auditing process for these organizations. Since inception, most audit companies struggle to figure out the IT protective aspects of the database. It seems that the developers mainly focused on the guidelines in using financial systems in preventing frauds but rather forgot the IT aspect if reducing the vulnerability of the system. For so many years, the database has failed to meet the technical roles of a database in system management and accounting regulation which are the critical reason why it was created. The SOX guidelines seem to forget about pertinent technical aspects of the system function (Cinarkaya et al., 2017).
The solutions to the mistake that was done are conducting technical analysis and installing appropriate fixing. Ideally, the database should target electronic management and safety of data rather than physical data management. This mistake of poorly implemented gave a false impression of database management in many companies that adopted the type of database in early days. From physical outlook, one could see that things are alright yet some technical rot was brewing within the system. It is clear that the developers of the SOX database missed some point while deriving and implementing the database and this should be fixed to enhance the computer-based operations (Anand et al., 2014).
References
Anand, T. S., Wikle, G. K., Lindsay, M. P., Schubert, R. N., Lettington, D. T., & Ludwig, J. P. (2014). U.S. Patent No. 5,832,496. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Cinarkaya, B., Tamm, S., Sureshchandra, J., Warshavsky, A., Bulumulla, I. U., Fry, B., ... & Brooks, D. (2017). U.S. Patent No. 9,825,965. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Computers are part of our everyday lives. You are likely reading thi.docxpatricke8
Computers are part of our everyday lives. You are likely reading this assignment on a computer screen right now; you may have a smart phone sitting on your desk, and maybe you just came back from a business trip during which you made airline and hotel reservations online. Over the last several years, you may have noticed that computers are able to store more information and process that information more quickly. New research into the electron spin of atoms hints at a new computer revolution in the near future.
Assignment
For this project, you will be exploring the developments in material science that have allowed computers to become so fast. To do so, please address the following in 3–4 pages, not including title and reference pages:
What are the 3 essential properties of every material?
New materials often lead to new technologies that change society. Describe how silicon-based semiconductors revolutionized computing.
What are microchips? How are they related to integrated circuits?
One of the pressing questions about the increasing ability of computers to quickly process large amounts of information is whether a computer can be built that is considered "alive" or "conscious." What is artificial intelligence? What are 2 essential differences between human brains and the central processing unit of a computer?
Click on the following link to review additional information in a video relevant to this assignment:
Will Computers Out-think Us?
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Computerized Operating Systems (OS) are almost everywhere. We encounter them when we use our laptop or desktop computer. We use them when we use our phones or tablet. Find peer-reviewed articles that discuss the advantages and disadvantages of at least two different Robotic Operating Systems (ROS).
250 words, APA format with references
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Computerized Operating Systems (OS) are almost everywhere. We en.docxpatricke8
Computerized Operating Systems (OS) are almost everywhere. We encounter them when we use out laptop or desktop computer. We use them when we use our phone or tablet. Find articles that describes the different types of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Android, ROS, z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, etc).
Do not select MS WINDOWS
. Write a scholarly review of comparing any two or more OS.
It should be at
least 10-15 pages
with at
least 5 APA
citations & matching references.
Formatting
: Introduction; Image / Table; Conclusion; 12 TNR font; double space; clearly divided small paragraphs; bold & underline headings;
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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5. the intended destination over the Internet.
SMS spoofing is falsifying the sender of a text message (it can
also be used in phishing scams).
4
Hacking with Computer Code
Cross-site scripting (XSS)
Uses vulnerability of Web application that allows the Web site
to get injected with malicious code. When a user visits the Web
site, that malicious code is able to collect data from the user.
Buffer overflow attack
Large amount of data sent to overflow the input memory
(buffer) of a program causing it to crash and replaced with
attacker’s program instructions.
SQL injection (insertion) attack
Malicious code inserted in place of a query to get to the
database information
6-5
7. These types of hacking are used to gain unauthorized access
into a computer system or confidential data.
Piggybacking can be using a neighbors unsecured wifi, an
unauthorized person following an authorized person through a
door bypassing screening or the security code needed to gain
access into a secure area, and tapping into a communications
line and electronically latching onto an authorized user as they
enter the system.
Password cracking is penetrating the system to steal passwords.
War dialing is using a program to dial phone lines looking for
an unsecured dial-up modem line.
War driving is driving around looking for an unsecured wireless
network, this invites unauthorized access into your network.
Phreaking is attacking the phone system to get free service.
Data diddling is falsifying data entry (e.g., timecards for
payroll).
Data leakage is unauthorized copying of data.
Podslurping is using a flash drive to download the unauthorized
data.
6
Hacking Used for Embezzlement
Salami technique:
Taking small amounts at a time
Round-down fraud
Economic espionage
Theft of information, intellectual property and trade secrets
Cyber-extortion
10. computer, and
loading software on a server allowing unrestricted access.
8
Social Engineering Techniques
Identity theft
Assuming someone else’s identity
Pretexting
Using a scenario to trick victims to divulge information or to
gain access
Posing
Creating a fake business to get sensitive information
Phishing
Sending an e-mail asking the victim to respond to a link that
appears legitimate that requests sensitive data
Pharming
Redirects Web site to a spoofed Web site
URL hijacking
Takes advantage of typographical errors entered in for Web
sites and user gets invalid or wrong Web site
Scavenging
Searching trash for confidential information
Shoulder surfing
Snooping (either close behind the person) or using technology
to snoop and get confidential information
Skimming
Double swiping credit card
Eeavesdropping
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A sex worker perspective
Filippa Foxa,b
aSex worker, Australia; bMelbourne School of Population and
Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia
I write this article as a femme academic who works both in the
public health sector and in
the sex industry. Due to anti-sex work stigma in both academia
and public health, I have
chosen to author this article under a pseudonym. This act of
self-erasure speaks to the
epistemic injustice sex workers face in scholarly and policy
dialogues about our health.
My own understanding of epistemic injustice is drawn from the
work of José Medina
and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr, as well as Miranda Fricker (Fricker
2009; Medina 2011; Pohlhaus
Jr 2012). The notion of epistemic injustice marks those ways in
which we can be
harmed in our capacity as knowers when communicating with
others (Fricker 2009).
Medina amends Fricker’s original account by arguing for a
temporal understanding of
durable epistemic injustices, using the term ‘dominant social
imaginary’ to refer to the
mainstream understanding of particular aspects of the world and
17. the limits of that under-
standing. Durable epistemic injustices are those which occur
when groups of marginalized
persons fail to be recognized in the dominant social imaginary
for long historical periods
as subjects who can speak for themselves (Medina 2011).
Pohlhaus Jr uses the term ‘wilful
hermeneutical ignorance’ to describe how, despite epistemic
resistance and knowledge
production by marginally situated knowers, ‘dominantly
situated knowers nonetheless
continue to misunderstand and misinterpret the world’ (2012,
716).
I am wearily familiar with the longstanding ideological
coalition between the religious
right and sex worker exclusionary radical feminism in the
United States. Aziza Ahmed
(2011) has written an excellent article on the history of this
coalition and its impact on
HIV/AIDS prevention and policy around the world. The current
public health policies pro-
posed by this coalition – exemplified by the longstanding anti-
prostitution pledge pre-
venting foreign non-governmental organizations from receiving
US HIV/AIDS funding if
they do not oppose ‘prostitution’ – make life considerably
harder for those of us involved
in the sex industry. At every turn, we are made invisible from
dialogues about our own
health and well-being.
One of the most longstanding strategies of sex worker
exclusionary radical feminism
has been to insist on a causal relationship between pornography
and violence against
19. agents of moral decay. To
engage the services of sex workers or to consume the
pornography we produce is seen
as morally reprehensible. It is assumed that we are all cisgender
women who exist in con-
trast to good wives and good mothers in monogamous,
reproductive sexual relationships.
We are seen as a threat to these relationships. Just as our bodies
are believed to be infec-
tious, we are believed to pollute the social environment,
encouraging violence and under-
mining the heteronormative family unit. We are constructed
both as helpless victims and
as powerful manipulators of the social order.
This construction of the sex worker subject did not arise with
the coalition between the
religious right and sex worker exclusionary radical feminism. It
has been with us since at
least the earliest stages of British imperialism exemplified by
the 1864 Contagious Diseases
Act in British-occupied India. In the dominant social imaginary,
we have been understood
for a long historical period as subjects unable to speak or reason
for ourselves.
It is because of this durable epistemic injustice that it does not
occur to many non-sex
workers that we have uniquely useful, nuanced, and plural
perspectives on our own health
and work. Although we actively resist, most non-sex workers
continue to dismiss the epis-
temic resources we develop. They maintain their ignorance
about our lives while simul-
taneously claiming to have expertise over them. For sex workers
who experience
20. compounding historical injustices, such as transfemme workers,
Indigenous and First
Nations workers, or Black workers, this ongoing exclusion from
the dominant social ima-
ginary is even more thorough and violent.
The coalition between the religious right and sex worker
exclusionary radical feminism
in the United States is effective precisely because it can
comfortably expect non-sex
workers not to have access to sex worker perspectives. Non-sex
workers who may not
share the political orientation of the religious right may
nevertheless find it easier to
believe what the dominant social imaginary says about
pornography than to seek out
the epistemic resources developed by porn workers.
Sex workers remain stigmatized and hidden from the dominant
social imaginary in
ways which make it hard for others to understand us as potential
conversational partners
with expert knowledge about our own lives. The social
epistemological perspective I have
traced here clarifies how the marginalization of sex workers
makes possible the endurance
of myths which are at odds with our lived experience. This
perspective also clarifies the
wilful failure of dominantly situated persons to use the
epistemic resources we develop.
Furthermore, the erasure of porn and other sex workers from the
ongoing public dialo-
gue about pornography and health prevents us from addressing
the very real health crises
which we do face. At present, I live and work in Australia in a
21. jurisdiction where sex work is
legalized and licensed. Unlicensed and non-compliant workers
continue to face criminaliza-
tion and punitive interference by the police. The Australian
healthcare system provides ade-
quate care to a greater proportion of marginalized people,
including sex workers;
nonetheless, sex work stigma regularly affects the quality of the
care we receive.
Mikey Way, Australian porn worker and activist, noted to me in
conversation:
198 F. FOX
Medical practitioners here have no knowledge of the standard
practices in the porn industry
and often need to be taught them during medical appointments,
effectively requiring us to
out ourselves and place ourselves at risk of discriminatory
behaviour. On top of that, many
of the things we rely on as porn performers are under-
researched – e.g., the effects of men-
strual sponges on physical health, the impact of anal douches
and enemas on health, harm
minimization for [consensual] bareback sexual contact, and the
success or lack thereof of a
testing-based [STI] transmission prevention method.
Much of what Mikey brought up has parallels in my own
experience with other sectors
of sex work: discriminatory behaviour on the part of health
professionals, the requirement
to educate doctors, incorrect diagnoses based on false
22. assumptions about risk, and a
dearth of evidence related to my needs and health practices as a
worker.
Many of us face even greater barriers accessing mental health
care and finding provi-
ders who respect our occupation and do not assume, for
example, that we are sex workers
because we have experienced trauma, or that our work is the
sole cause of our ill-health.
American porn worker Andre Shakti (2017) addresses a number
of similar points related
to sex worker health in her excellent Rewire commentary ‘No
One in the Porn Industry Likes
a Broken Vagina’, including the lack of workplace protections,
the difficulty of accessing
private insurance in the United States as a sex worker, and the
potential legal ramifications
of disclosing sex worker status to health professionals.
As a scholar, activist, and worker dedicated to improving sex
worker access to appropriate
and adequate healthcare, I find the language of pornography as
a ‘public health crisis’ to be
deeply and deliberately disingenuous. It is the latest strategy in
a long history of epistemic
injustice committed against sex workers. Because of the
persistent erasure of porn and other
sex workers from the public dialogue on pornography and
health, it is difficult for us to join
this conversation and use it is as a platform to improve our own
occupational health and
safety. I call this an erasure because I want to be clear that we
are having ongoing conversa-
tions about our health. It is the responsibility of health
23. professionals and policy-makers to
listen to us. It is the responsibility of non-sex workers to exhibit
epistemic humility and
make an effort to understand and use the epistemic resources we
create.
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INTRODUCTION
Constructing a crisis: porn panics and public health
Valerie Webbera and Rebecca Sullivanb
aCommunity Health & Humanities, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada; bDepartment of
English, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Who has the luxury to worry about porn’s impact on health?
And who has the power to define
what is ‘healthy sexuality’?
26. Labelling porn a public health crisis has become the newest
tactic for anti-porn activists
seeking to curtail pornography distribution. Thus far, seven
American states have declared
pornography a public health crisis and four more have filed
similar bills. Hearings on the
matter were held in Canada, although the final decision was that
the evidence was too
contradictory to draw any conclusions. Lobbyists in Australia
and the United Kingdom
are asking their governments to investigate not so much whether
there is a public
health crisis, but to leap ahead and determine how to solve the
crisis of pornography.
Yet not one global health agency – the usual experts to identify
and define the scope
of a public health issue – supports their claims. Traditionally,
the field of public health
has concerned itself with disease prevention by addressing the
systemic causes of perva-
sive health problems that impact either a significant majority of
people (e.g. sanitation
systems or childhood vaccinations) or the most marginalized
segments of a population
(e.g. HIV prevention or safe injection sites). Pornography
consumption meets neither of
these criteria. Why then has this debate occupied valuable
government time and
resources?
Treating pornography as a ‘public health crisis’ is a gross
misallocation of priorities. We
do not believe such claims are motivated by a desire to ensure
the physical and social well-
being of the populace. Rather, employing the language of
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specific types of ‘evidence’ grants us opportunity to conduct
research that makes visible
the experiences of sexual subjectivities which are so often
silenced. Indeed, as Filippa
Fox argues, the maintenance of the theory that pornography
damages the public’s
health requires the wilful exclusion of the voices of sex
workers. This denial that sex
workers are in fact part of ‘the public’ has real and direct
consequences on sex workers’
ability to access adequate and respectful healthcare, while
health questions of actual rel-
evance to sex workers’ lives go unanswered.
Cicely Marston demonstrates that much of the public health
rhetoric about pornogra-
phy begins from the assumption that a healthy sexuality is one
that conforms to the social
and cultural conventions of white, settler, heterosexual, middle-
class, monogamous pro-
priety. It also singles out pornography as a uniquely and
exclusively negative form of
media. Katie Newby and Anne Philpott present ways to think
about how explicit sexual
content could be ethically produced and incorporated into
sexual health curricula,
especially to discuss consent, safer sex, and distinguishing
between visual fantasy and
real-life sex. These efforts by public heath scholars to integrate
critical media studies of
sexuality into their research opens up an exciting new vista of
29. academic collaboration
long missing from the media effects models that have dominated
public health and
social psychology studies.
If porn is a public health crisis, then, what exactly are the
health outcomes of watching
too much pornography? That is the fundamental stumbling block
of anti-porn advocates.
David Ley, an American sex therapist, outlines a series of
epistemological and methodo-
logical fallacies that are central to anti-porn claims about the
health risks of porn. While
the science of porn addiction and negative neurological effects
is contentious at best,
there is something well worth studying here: that is, the shift in
political lobbying from
claims of undiagnosable ‘harms’ to women and children, to
insisting that young men
are the unwilling victims of a runaway epidemic of
pornography. Very little of the
public health debates even acknowledges that porn may be
consumed by young
women, or that it has particular and distinct saliency for
LGBTQ2IA+ youth. Indeed, as
Madita Oeming points out, the conversation of porn’s supposed
harms revolves largely
around the mainstream white, heterosexual, cisgendered male, a
victim of his own limit-
less capacity for porn consumption. Diseases of over-
consumption are quintessentially
moral, not health crises. They require and invoke a class of
passive and entitled consumers
whose supposed well-being outweighs any public or
occupational health programmes to
support porn workers, a phenomenon Heather Berg unravels in
30. her contribution to this
forum.
To suggest that a conversation on the health effects of
pornography is a privileged one
is not to say that we do not welcome complex and even
contentious academic debate on
sexuality. Sexual norms and cultures are important for health
outcomes and therefore
require balanced, thoughtful discussion and consideration of the
relationship of sexual
media to sexual health. Indeed, critical media and cultural
scholars have been engaged
in this work for decades. Sophisticated qualitative methods for
understanding how
youth negotiate their media viewing and integrate it with their
sexual becoming is
easily accessible but still poorly integrated even by public
health scholars who contest
the anti-porn arguments. Research on sexting (Burkett 2015;
Albury 2017), online com-
munication (De Ridder and Van Bauwel 2013; Keller 2015;
Naezer 2017), media sexualiza-
tion (McRobbie 2008; Attwood 2010; McKee 2010; Smith 2010;
Duits and van Zoonen
PORN STUDIES 193
2011), and porn consumption (Attwood 2005; McKee 2007;
Smith 2007; Paasonen et al.
2015) that assemble multifaceted analytical frameworks serves
to locate pornography
within a complex matrix of sexual media production,
distribution, and consumption. Fur-
31. thermore, it provides opportunities to integrate sexual media
into debates on media lit-
eracy and digital citizenship as something other than a risky
behaviour to avoid (Keller
and Brown 2002; Jones and Mitchell 2016). Frameworks already
exist to educate children
and youth on healthy media usage, rights and responsibilities of
social media engage-
ment, critical meaning-making, and identity self-construction.
As these issues spill over
into sexual education curricula, it becomes more urgent that we
talk about ethical pro-
duction and consumption of sexual media. Yet educational,
medical, religious, and
other social systems (not to mention families) still revert to
hand-wringing over media
access rather than considering the wider economic,
sociocultural, and historical contexts
in which sexual media are embedded. Without these contexts,
we cannot have important
conversations about the realities of porn’s pervasiveness in
society – what Brian McNair
calls ‘the pornosphere’ (2002, 35) – and how porn can
contribute to broadening, rather
than narrowing, the possibilities for safe and fulfilling sexual
lives.
The appropriation of public health legislation by anti-porn
advocates also illustrates the
importance of public health ethics. Any interventions on private
sexual practices must
balance individual rights and security with the public good. It
was a hard lesson learned
in the early stages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic – a true public
health crisis, but also one
riddled with stigma and discrimination. As concern over the
32. disease mounted, many
health practitioners, decision-makers, and activists campaigning
in the name of public
health considered drastic violations of people’s privacy and
autonomy as necessary and
justified. This included interventions such as mandatory testing,
reporting, and quarantine,
as well as the closure of community sexual spaces such as
bathhouses (Herek 1999;
Disman 2003). It continues today in the form of mandatory
testing and reporting
(Webber, Bartlett, and Brunger 2016), blood bans for men who
have sex with men
(Cascio and Yomtovian 2013; Arora 2017; Crath and Rangel
2017), and the criminalization
of non-disclosure of one’s HIV status to sexual partners
(Mykhalovskiy 2011; O’Byrne,
Bryan, and Woodyatt 2013). HIV is an interesting comparative
case study to the current
porn panic because it demonstrates how interventions ostensibly
intended to protect
the health of the ‘public’ deliberately privilege specific forms
of sexual and relational prac-
tice. Public sexual health campaigns and policies based upon
weak evidence are danger-
ous because they conflate moral judgment with health
intervention, further ostracizing
sexually non-normative populations while failing to result in
any measurable improve-
ments to public health.
As the example of HIV illustrates, it is imperative that public
health always first and fore-
most considers the ethical implications of its own practice, in
order to balance ‘the need to
exercise power to ensure the health of populations and, at the
33. same time, to avoid abuses
of such power’ (Thomas et al. 2002, 1057). Public health ethics
hinges upon defining the
boundaries of the public/private divide. Sexuality, especially
with regards to its relation-
ship with pornography, tends to incite chaotic interpretations of
ethics because of the
many ways in which it brings ‘the public’ and ‘the private’ into
complicated collision
with one another. How the public/private divide is drawn – how
the private is perceived
to ooze out and corrupt the public – is an important factor in
determining when and how
the collective should be entitled to compel the individual
towards ‘healthy’ decisions.
194 V. WEBBER AND R. SULLIVAN
Tragically, the history of public health interventions on
people’s sexuality is rife with
abuse: forced sterilizations, false mental health diagnoses,
criminalization and incarcera-
tion, dangerous and untested therapeutic interventions, medical
incompetence, and
human rights violations. The examples are too long to
exhaustively list, but some that
stand out include the Puerto Rican birth control pill trials
(1956), the Tuskegee syphilis
experiments conducted on African American men (1932–1972),
and the incarceration of
‘promiscuous’ women in Magdalene Laundries (which lasted
until the 1990s in some
countries). Abuses like these have disproportionately impacted
racialized communities,
34. sex workers, and sexually non-normative folks. The claims in
favour of labelling porn a
public health crisis promise nothing different.
Our reasons for drawing attention to dark chapters in the history
of public regulation of
sexuality is not to say that sex should be off-limits to public
health officials and experts, but
to insist that we learn from past errors and abuses. People of
marginalized genders and
sexualities who have historically encountered stigma and
discrimination due to previous
sexual health policies must be consulted and their experiences
prioritized. In our own
work, as a public health scholar and a media studies scholar, we
seek out sex workers,
LGBTQ2IA+, HIV+ people, and racialized groups unjustly
labelled as ‘hypersexual’ as
those who must be heard first and loudest (Webber 2017;
Sullivan 2014; Sullivan and
McKee 2015). They were all but absent in recent hearings in
Canada, which had substan-
tially more submissions from evangelical leaders and anti-porn
organizations than they did
from public health scientists or sexual health harm reduction
agencies.
Health can be too easily portrayed as value-free and easily
understood. Similarly,
healthy sexuality is often narrowly defined to conform to
heteronormative, middle-class,
nuclear family-oriented ideals. When a public health debate that
could potentially result
in legislation begins from weak frameworks and over-simplified
definitions, the conse-
quences can be catastrophic. As Thomas et al. (2002, 1058)
35. state, the fundamental
ethical principle of public health is that ‘programs and policies
should incorporate a
variety of approaches that anticipate and respect diverse values,
beliefs, and cultures in
the community’. Porn is a factor of public sexual health, on that
point we heartily
concur. However, it is not necessarily intoxicating our youth or
decaying social values. It
is also sometimes a path to sexual self-discovery, a vehicle for
safer and consensual sex
practices, and a window into the spectrum of gender and sexual
diversity. Thus, we can
perhaps express some gratitude to those who began this debate –
as deceptively as
they did – so that we can begin to develop public health policies
and programmes that
support more expressive, diverse, and inclusive sexualities. The
pieces in this forum are
offered as a beginning of a new debate, thoughtfully framed and
ethically accountable.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
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