[Air-L] student guide to IP, internet architecture, proxy servers, etc.?

[lewis levenberg]

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 at 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 at 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
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> >
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