Readings and Resources

• READ - It’s Beyond Ridiculous That Email (But Not Mail) Has Been Left Out of Privacy Laws
• READ - Developers Scramble to Build NSA-Proof Email
• WATCH - Patty Rangel on Holographic Projection for Avatars (U.N.)
• WATCH - Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport
• WATCH - Dr. Robert Ballard at The Richmond Forum
• READ or LISTEN - CBC Under the Influence - Viral Videos

Module 18 Assignment:

Critical Response and Forum - Electronic Communications

• Take some time to write critically about your interactions with online content, be it content you've created or you have consumed. Here are some things you might want to write about:
  • Write about an experience you had in which electronic communications failed you, and discuss what you think the failure was due to.
  • Write about an experience you had in which electronic communications was successful for you, and discuss what you think the success was due to.
  • Write about what you think will happen to current electronic communication methods as they continue to evolve? Will email or skype go away and be replaced by something else?
  • Have you ever produced a piece of viral content? What was it and why do you think it went viral?
• Write roughly 400 words and bring some of your ideas over to the module's Slack channel.
• DO Post a couple of key ideas from your critical response writing. This should be a sentence or two.
• DO NOT Post the full text of your critical response. This will result in an automatic zero.
• Everyone will be responsible for posting at least three times, but more active conversation is encouraged. The forum will be moderated, so please keep things civil and polite.