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-===== Blown to Bits =====
+====== Blown to Bits ======
-As a final exam, you will submit a 2-3 page essay on a topic of your choice related to one of tey chapters in the book //Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion// by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis. The book is available online as a pdf for free:
+As a final exam, you will submit an essay on a topic of your choice related to one of the chapters in the book //Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion// by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis.
-http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/ and the related website is at http://www.bitsbook.com/.
+This book is available online as a pdf for free at http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/ and the related website with additional material is at http://www.bitsbook.com/.  In particular, you may find [[http://www.bitsbook.com/blog/|their blog]] interesting and relevant to your work.
-For this assignment, you will:
+To help you navigate the book, the following table summarizes which lecture topics //loosely correspond// to which chapters. You are of course free to select any chapter (or related sections from multiple chapters), regardless what was covered in class.
-  - select one chapter or several sections in //Blown to Bits//
-  - write a 2-3 page response paper containing "new" material
-This should be a contribution based on your own experience, and/or an angle or view not covered by the authors.
+^ CS 190 Topic          ^ Blown to Bits ^
-You should also draw upon the points discussed in lectures, on the team blogs, and in the course wiki pages.
+| The Internet          | Appendix: \\ The Internet as System and Spirit |
+| Social Networking     | Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: \\ Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned |
+| Security              | Chapter 5: Secret Bits: \\ How Codes Became Unbreakable |
+| Ethics                | Chapter 7: You Can’t Say That on the Internet: \\ Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression |
+| Intellectual Property | Chapter 6: Balance Toppled: \\ Who Owns the Bits? |
+| Digital Divide        |  |
+| Gaming                |  |
+| History & Computation | Chapter 1: Digital Explosion: \\ Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? |
+^ Other Topics          ^  ^
+| Digital Documents     | Chapter 3: Ghosts in the Machine: \\ Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents |
+| Search Engines        | Chapter 4: Needles in the Haystack: \\ Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar |
+| Censorship/Regulation | Chapter 8: Bits in the Air: \\ Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech |
-**This will be an individual essay, and is due by email on Friday March 12th.**
+Specific instructions and guidelines:
+  * Select one chapter (or several sections) in //Blown to Bits//. Please state which one(s) you selected in your essay.
+  * Write a critical response containing "new" material. This should be a contribution based on your own experience and/or an angle/view not covered by the authors.
+  * You should also draw upon the points discussed in lectures, on the team blogs, and in the course wiki pages.
+  * The required length is 2 to 3 pages (500 to 750 words). Your document should be formatted nicely (e.g., double-spaced with reasonable margins).
+  * This assignment must be your individual work; you may not collaborate with other students other than discussing the book or course issues in general.
+Please submit your essay to the TA via email ([[cmayfiel@cs.purdue.edu]]), **preferably as a PDF attachment** (see below).  You will receive a reply confirming the receipt of your document.  The deadline is **Friday March 12th at 5:00 PM**.  Late work will not be accepted; enjoy your Spring Break!
+====== Creating PDFs ======
+Note that one should be cautious about sending .doc (or .docx) files: besides not being fully portable, .doc files often contain hidden information that one may not want the recipient to know (see [[http://www.electronicevidenceretrieval.com/molisani_meta_data.htm|here]], [[http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051901021033.aspx|here]], and Blown to Bits chapter 3).
+There are many ways to create (or, print) a PDF file:
+  * [[http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/|Acrobat Pro]] is available in any of the [[http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/lab/standard_software.cfm|ITaP Instructional Labs]].
+  * You can also download free software that installs a "pdf printer" on your own computer:
+    * http://www.pdfforge.org/ (recommended)
+    * http://www.cutepdf.com/
+  * [[https://docs.google.com/|Google Docs]], [[http://www.openoffice.org/|Open Office]], and other office suites have the ability to import Word documents and export PDFs.
+Feel free to contact the TA if you have any questions regarding this process.

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