Cyberspace

Identity Internet users login social media sites everyday. The world has become a large global identification tag that allows the user to create and maintain online profiles that has become the most significant process in promoting your image or expanding your social network. Your username tells people who you are. It tells them what you support and sometimes, even your motives for being there. You need to figure out who you are going to be when crating your profile... The question we have to…

a daily basis (Lenhart, Madden, & Hitlin, 2005). In addition, almost half of all adolescents have personal cellular phones, permitting them instant access to text messaging (Lenhart et al., 2005). Given these estimation, it is greater clear that cyberspace equips the social networking forum where tech-savvy teenagers can interact with one another. In fact, the popularity of cyber exchanging information shows by statistics revealing that about half of all adolescents interact with friends and…

Nation's critical infrastructure is diverse and complex. It includes distributed networks, varied organizational structures and operating models (including multinational ownership), interdependent functions and systems in both the physical space and cyberspace, and governance constructs that involve multi-level authorities, responsibilities, and regulations. Critical infrastructure owners and operators are uniquely positioned to manage risks to their individual operations and assets, and to…

rationale behind the Space Transition Theory is due to lack of deterrence and identity flexibility. In deterrence, individuals will weigh the pros and the cons and eventually not commit an act because the consequences outweigh the rewards, in cyberspace and in Space Transition Theory, this does not exist because the fact that there is a higher possibility of not getting caught outweighs the consequence. Social Learning Theory Environments and social status normally becomes a prelude…

Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash delves into the themes of access to information and control through the usage of virtual realities. While some people might fear that technology produces an overflow of information, virtual realties offers its users connection to knowledge and people that would otherwise be impossible. In addition, the Metaverse within Snow Crash creates a world separate from reality that provides people with the ability to create avatars and decide on how people view one’s own…

government faces dilemmas of balancing issues of security and militarization of the cyberspace, citizens’ privacy and surveillance. Also, lack of clear rules and guidelines as to addressing cyber warfare, classified character of the activity of the agencies involved in creating new regulations to address cyber warfare contributed to the delay in the streamline of the military’s ability to attack and defend the cyberspace. 3. How has the Internet influenced the distribution of power in the…

The Department of Homeland Security 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review outlines six major challenges that America is facing and will face over the next few years. Those six challenges include: the terrorist threat, cyber threats, biological concerns, nuclear terrorism, transnational criminal organizations and natural hazards (DHS, 2014, 28). The focus of this paper is to address the nature of cyber threats and cyber terrorism in America. When Americans think of the word “terrorism”, most…

citizens in a revolt “used new internet applications and ubiquitous mobile phones to wage a battle over the soul of their cities, shifting resources back and forth from cyberspace to ‘cityspace’” (Ratti &Townsend, Scientific American). If an entire rebellion can be organized online, imagine what else can be accomplished. Cyberspace can bring the greatest dreams and fantasies of humanity into existence with the power of technology and human innovation, all of which occurring in cities all across…

Throughout major films there are numerous different genres that each distinct film can be classified in. Many times films have a cross-genre. Cross-genre films are formed when two genres are mixed together in one film. The possibilities are endless as to what genres can be crossed. The 1982 film Blade Runner is a prime example of a cross-genre film, containing aspects from both the film noir genre to the sub-genre called cyberpunk. Blade Runner takes many of its conventions from film noir, such…

Thesis statement: Information privacy is considered an important aspect of information sharing. With the advancement of the digital age, personal information vulnerabilities have increased. With that in mind we should have the knowledge to ensure our safety in the internet through protective measures such as encryption, authentication, and data masking, etc. I. How the internet changed privacy. A. How the end of privacy started. The beginning of data gathering and the advantages and…