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

[Azfar Adib]

Dear Professor Charles

The below video shows a simple demonstration of basic internet traffic flow
, which can be helpful:

https://youtu.be/PBWhzz_Gn10

Thanks and Regards
Azfar Adib
Dhaka,Bangladesh


On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 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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