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Essay Instructions: Please answer the following questions:
e-Commerce Module 3, questions 1 - 4. (Module 3 Website)
What do you think about these e-business issues that impact organizations?

After each of the following statements, create a response to affirm or contradict that statement. Justify your opinions. Give examples. Look up any words you are not familiar with before answering the question.

1. Digitization is removing the need for human interface.



2. Virtualization renders physical location and proximity irrelevant.



3. Networking enables everything to be outsourced or done through alliances.



4. Knowledge capture or "information flow co-ordination" needs to become a central, driving core competence.




2. Just Google It problems 1-3.
JUST GOOGLE IT





Want to know how many ounces in a gallon? Where your former flame lives? What is the most popular television program? Do what tens of millions of people do every day: type a query into a blank line on a simple Web page. In other words, Google it.

Internet-search engines have been around for more than a decade, but today Google dominates the market with its uncanny ability to provide curious minds with the exact information they seek. Google combines a unique set of smart algorithms, web crawlers, and 10,000 computer servers to provide simple answers to the most obscure questions. With virtually no marketing, Google is now the fourth most popular web site in the world, and the numbers one and three sites (AOL and Yahoo) both license Google technology for their web searches. About half of all web searches in the world are performed with Google.

Google was the brainchild of two Stanford graduate students who refused to accept that Internet searching was either a solved problem or not very interesting. Larry Page and Sergey Brin met as doctoral candidates in computer science in 1995. They began with an academic research project that led to an experiment on web searching. The heart of their idea was something they called PageRank, which took into account not just the title or text on a web site but the other sites linked to it. Basically, the system exploited the complex linking network of the web itself.

Their system became a cult favorite among Standfordites, and more computer power was required. Page and Brin soon realized that their research project had commercial potential. In 1998 they looked for funding to start a company. After a 15-minute pitch Sun Microsystems cofounder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 check on the spot. It was made out to Google, the name the founders had chosen. At that point Brin and Page figured they?d better incorporate so they could open a bank account in which to deposit the check. Eventually venture-capital firms signed on as well.

Page and Brin watched their pennies. They built their own servers using repaired defective disk drives and were extremely careful about hiring. In defiance of the dot-com experience, they quickly made a profit. Making money allows Google to resist another bubble-related pitfall: a premature IPO.

Despite being free to users, Google generates enormous revenue. The company makes money through license fees from places like Yahoo or AOL. Corporate sales departments pay as much as half-million dollars to use Google technology to search their own information. But the bulk of the company?s revenues (estimated at $100 million in 2002) come from advertising. Advertisers buy words associated with given searches for a fixed fee. The company also auctions ?sponsored links? that sit to the right of the search results. These text-based ads are clearly labeled and limited to eight per page with no intrusive graphics, banners, or pop-ups.

The actual search results are sacrosanct?they can?t be bought. But in a limited number of cases, Google does modify the search results. It tries to identify and block results from hard-core-porn sites. More controversial is the removal of specific sites (such as holocaust-denial sites and links to the Church of Scientology.)

Although competition in Internet searching has heated up, Google has not lost its focus. Its main efforts have been in collecting more information to search and providing new ways to do it. The home page now includes a way to search for images, a Google dictionary, a Google phone book, and a feature called Google News that automatically searches news sites for up-to-the minute stories and arranges them into a custom web page.

Google founders are still dreaming big. According to Sergey Brin, ?I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world.?



(Source: Steven Levy, ?The World According to Google,? Newsweek, December 18, 2002, pp. 47-51.)



DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:





1. Have you Googled lately? What are some of the more interesting things you have learned through Google?





2. What other search engines have you used? How do they compare to Google?





3. What are the disadvantages to using Google and other Internet searches to find information you need?

Essay Instructions: Please break down your essay into 2 sections with headings that show clearly the digital media concepts that you will explain. Each section should be of approximately equal length.

Section 1

Identify 4 sources (articles or clips) from the unit topics from weeks 1-6 to help you explain 2 or 3 key digital media concepts and show how these concepts are interrelated to each other. The media concepts will stem from digitization and must include digitization. Your choice of concepts must come from the following: 1) digitization, 2) interoperability, 3) media diversity, 4) diversity of devices, 5) convergence, 6) remediation, 7) editing and 8) timelines.

Section 2

Use a further set of sources (articles and clips) to help explain another 2 or 3 digital media concepts from the list above. It is fine to reuse one concept and one article in this section from the first section. Four articles and clips in total are required for this section.



This assignment is not about the summary of articles or clips per se. Use the articles and clips alongside topic notes to show your understanding of the digital media concepts. This requires a logical approach to the articles and a requirement to synthesize your findings. Please reference topic notes as teaching materials and use the Chicago author/date referencing style. Please refer to the guide via the following URL for how to reference clips, articles and teaching materials (topic notes) that you have used in your assignment.
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Essay Instructions: Read ?The Enrique Camarena Case ? A Forensic Nightmare.?
At https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/121533NCJRS.pdf

Please address the following in detail:

a. Catalog the forensic evidence found in the Camarena Case.
b. Summarize the steps followed by the crime scene investigators including the mistakes and/or correct steps followed to process the scene through the criminal justice system.
c. Asses what could have been done better or what could have been improved upon during the forensic investigation of the crime scene.

The paper must be at least four to six pages in length and formatted according to APA style. You must refer to at least one secondary resource. Cite your resources in text as well as on the Reference page.


Chapters 5 & 6 of may also be used as a source of information or point of reference.

Gaensslen, R.E., & Larsen, K. (2013). Introductory forensic science. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Essay Instructions: Project Description:

The media briefing project is designed to train you to write detailed and well written reports on the media system of a given country. I would like you to think assaignment as a report you have beeen asked to prepare to brief a newly-appoinment cultural/press attac? on a diplomatic mission in Canada. Part of this assignment will involve a discriptive presentation of the media system in Canada.

What you need to do:

The point of this handout is to provide some structural to help you write an effective and interesting report. Remember that your target audience, in this case the newly-appointed Cultural/Press Attach? does not know anything about the media system in Canada. Your assignment here is not to draft a 'boring' descriptive report that reflects no understading of the media system in Canada, but to show a mature analysis of the characteristics of that system in the light of the trends of world communication as you understand them from the readings and our class discussion. In this sense, I want you to focus on concepts like: privatisation, public service, deregulation, digitization, consolidation, media owndership, globalization, etc.

Since this report is meant to inform and analyze, you need to start with a description of the media system of Canada. Make sure you highlight any background information (political, social, cultural) before you begin to analyze the media. Do not assume the Cultural/Press Attach? knows the basic components of that system. Provide first a profile of the media organization in Canada - print, broadcast, film. Then, use some of the research parameters and tools international communication theorists use to analyze and evaluate the status of a media system. Look at the impact of the trends listed above, look for TV programming, print media circulation and ownership, films production and distribution, etc.

These guidelines were given by the Professor!

Start - Description of media system
- concentration of public media in Canada? If yes then why?
- Is the budget of public media getting smaller? If yes, is there some form of deregulation?
- What kind of private media does it have? How big is the private group and how much does it own? What program does it use?
- Media History of Quebeque and Canada?
History between French speaking and English speaking parts of Canada.
- Does the French speaking part have their own media? Do they have to pay for it? Do they receive funds from the Canadian government?
- How effective is Canada by globalization? How much is the local industry acting and investing?
- Does Canada protect their own media from the USA?
- What problems does the Canadian media system face today?
- How strong is local production? And how media does Canada import?
- What kind of mandatory media are/exist in Canada?
- How does the government accomodate the immigrants by leting foreign products in?
- Minority and multicultural media in Canada?