電気通信大学 AE2Y II: Topic 3 writing & presentation assignment

Hello!

How are you? Today, here is our 3rd writing & presentation assignment.

While I have already given you the handout about this assignment, I am posting it here as well as another way to help remind you on what you can do.

Topic & task

The picture above is a scan of the original ARPANET packet switching network layout, which was the basis for what later became the internet. This illustrates, in part, what we will focus on in this assignment.

Select an issue about the governance of the internet or World Wide Web – for example, a general issue about the pros and cons of regulating the internet, or pros and cons about how Tim Berners-Lee thought of the WWW – or a specific issue about the internet or WWW – for example, how to regulate fake news and the spread of misinformation, or whether or not governments should have net neutrality.

Abstract writing
About your topic, write a short abstract of between 200-250 words about your opinions, suggestions, and methodology on what you believe should and can be done about the internet or WWW.  

Because this is a new kind of writing for all of you, we will aim for a one-sided argument from our reactions to the issues you will write about this time. So you can state an opinion – but you have to go beyond only saying what you believe, to develop as much of a methodology as you can to support the position you take. 

For example, if you believe the internet does not need to be regulated by local or national governments, state your opinion about it – but do not stop there. Exactly why, in your view, does it not need to be regulated? Are things about the web fine the way they are? Or is self-regulation by the general public, where people simply make promises not to post fake news or spread misinformation, good enough to keep the internet a safe area? 




Short presentation
Along with your written abstract, develop a short, five (5) -minute presentation based on your abstract about the same topic – not a reading in front of others of your paper, but a separate, developed presentation of your topic.

Guidelines

I would like you to type up your abstract. For the presentation, you have a choice of making an A3-sized poster or short Power Point display, as we have done before. We will also use the same guidelines as we have done before.

Deadline (締め切り) 

We will turn in the abstracts and do the presentations on November 20th (11/20), so you have two (2) weeks to do these. 

Good luck! I look forward to reading about, and seeing, your reactions and arguments to your choices of topics.

Image:  By ARPANET - The Computer History Museum ([1]), en:File:Arpnet-map-march-1977.png, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9990864