Exam 2 Flashcards
(52 cards)
What is copyright?
Limits the ability of others to copy the expression of an idea you created.
What is trade secrecy?
Limits the ability of others to gain access to an idea (e.g. EULA)
What is an example of trade secrecy?
EULA
What is patent protection?
Limits the abilities of others to use an idea. Ways to monetize your efforts.
What is adverse possession law?
Squatter law.
A natural rights theory of property cannot justify ownership of software. Why?
If you take something away from someone - they lose their ownership of it
What is Nozick’s view on natural rights?
It’s unusual that ethics drives from the legality. Therefore, the ethics derived from the legality is dependant on the time and place (country) where the copyright violation is happening.
What is Townsend’s definition of class?
"my operational definition of class in the electronic village is that it is a group with common economic and social interests large enough to exert pressure for social and economic change"
What is the definition of fungible?
fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are essentially interchangeable
What is the causality of low income schools and technology?
people need tech literacy for good jobs, low income people don’t have access to to tech - thus don’t have access to good jobs
What is an interesting property of math exams?
They show no gender differences.
What empirical evidence is there of sexism in society or in tech?
Barbie
What does barbie represent?
Empirical evidence that there is sexism in society or tech.
What evidence is there for unjustness or sexism with respect to CS in the West?
Barbie
What is stereotype threat?
Is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group.
How do you prevent stereotype threat?
With stereotype lift.
What impact can new technology have on existing social structures?
They become more entrenched because of technology.
What is an example of the impact of new technology have on existing social structures?
Financial market and military structures benefited from technology
What is Johnson’s take on socio-technical impacts of the Internet?
Consider broader social values as we determine law and order on the Internet (e.g. how to make it accessible, secure… etc)
What is a pluralist democracy?
A pluralist democracy describes a political system where there is more than one center of power
What is communitarian democracy?
Communitarians criticize the image Rawls presents of humans as atomistic individuals, and stress that individuals who are well-integrated into communities are better able to reason and act in responsible ways than isolated individuals, but add that if social pressure to conform rises to high levels, it will undermine the individual self.
What is a plebiscitary democracy?
Everyone votes
What is network neutrality?
ISPs can’t take bribes to influence network speeds
ISPs can’t take bribes to influence network speeds is an example of what?
network neutrality