'Internet' - lecture for MECO 1002, USYD, 17 August 2015

1. Internet
week 4 lecture :: 17.08.15
Media & Comms Landscapes (MECO 1002)
Gerard Goggin/@ggoggin
Dept of Media & Comms, USYD

2. ITU,
Facts &
Figures
2015

4. ITU, Facts & Figures 2015

5. Internet
1 new medium
2 Lot of convergence pivots on
Internet (& mobiles)
3 Internet = new law, policy &
governance issues

6. Internet
1. network of
networks
2. TCP/IP
3. Internet media
industry

7. ‘CSIR Mk1, doors off, in the Radiophysics Laboratory, Sydney. Geoff
Hill, June 1952’, http://www.csirac.info/gallery.html

9. William Crowther’s
‘Colossal Cave
Adventure’ (1976);
released on the
early APRANET
(precursor to Internet);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave
_Adventure

10. 10
online in the wilderness – early internet in
Northern NSW, with Pegasus, one of 1st ISPs
Ian Peter online at
Terania Creek
(Photo: Brian Alexander)

12. National Library Pandora Archive
Internet Archive & Way Back
Machine

15. Source: Forbes Magazine, http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/09/22/alibaba-claims-title-
for-largest-global-ipo-ever-with-extra-share-sales/

16. Blued hook-up app,
started by Ma Baoli;
Christina Larson,
Bloomberg, 10
December 2014

19. Internet policy
1 The Internet’s own decentralized policy
frameworks - e.g. acceptable use rules (no trading on
Internet until 1992); Request for Comment (RFC); domain
name registration
2 Regulating content (porn; violence; hate speech;
abuse; defamation) & censorship
3 Sharing ideas - intellectual property
4 Internet governance
5 Does everyone in the world have access to
affordable, useable Internet?

20. Regulating content -
porn; violence; hate speech; abuse; defamation
- & censorship on the
Internet

24. ‘Green Dam Girl: That unhealthy information is so gross; I'm a girl
worth 40 million
Grass Mud Horse: I'm just an alpaca’
source: http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/green_dam_girl.php

25. Secretary Clinton on "Internet Rights And Wrongs: Choices & Challenges In A
Networked World”, George Washington University, 15 Feb 2011

27. Sharing ideas -
intellectual property
& Internet

28. Picture from season 4 finale, episode 10, Games of
Thrones, ‘The Children, http://cdn.winteriscoming.net/wp-
content/uploads/2014/06/thechildren2.jpg

32. Wikipedia, ‘Imagine a World without Free Knowledge’, 18 January, 2012

34. Internet
governance

37. 25.04.2014
Brazil passes new
Marco Civil
da Internet,
or Internet Bill of
Rights

39. Norse Corporation Dark Intelligence threats real-time map

41. March 26, 2015 - new laws
Data Retention
The Australian Government is
committed to providing our law
enforcement and security agencies
with the tools they need to keep our
community safe by requiring the
telecommunications industry to retain
a limited set of metadata for two years.
Attorney-General’s Dept

42. Internet Access
who has it? For how much?
& what we do to ensure everyone
has it?

43. Is Connectivity a Human Right?
For almost ten years, Facebook has been on a
mission to make the world more open and
connected. Today we connect more than 1.15
billion people each month, but as we started
thinking about connecting the next 5 billion, we
realized something important: the vast majority of
people in the world don’t have access to the
internet.
Connecting the world is one of the greatest
challenges of our generation … I’m excited to work
together to make this a reality.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, 2014

45. where did the NBN come from?The 19th century Overland Telegraph

47. conclusion