Digital Video Clips of Computer Ethics

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Abstract : We produced a digital video on computer ethics for use in higher education. The purpose of the video is to help students learn what kind of incidents they might encounter and how to cope with them in cyber space. The video contains twenty clips that depict the daily life of three students in a Japanese university. These clips are classified into four sections stories concerning (1) network security (virus, spyware, web bug, cross-site scripting), (2) communications through the network (e-mail etiquette, managing a web forum), (3) copyright and accessibility on web pages, and (4) phishing and privacy. Each clip consists of one story and explanations from a technical and legal points of view. Some problems have no 'correct' answer and are designed to prompt discussion in a class session. The process of making this video is as follows: We proposed ideas for the clips, and a professional writer developed interesting scenarios. After filming in a studio and on location, narration and music were added. The main narrator is a disc jockey and she supplied up-tempo spice to the video. We ran a preview of this video to dozens of university teachers, most of whom expressed interest in buying it. We are now using the video in our classes and evaluating the students' responses.

The total duration of the video is about 2 hours. Each drama is concerning three students. They are Masami, a female student, Yukie, another female student, and Shunsuke, a male student. The explanation consists of talks by two narrators, illustrations and interaction between the narrators and the three students. In the explanation, one narrator, Lucy, is a female senior of the students, and gives advice to the students concerning computer ethics. The other is an anonymous male who explains the machanism from the technical point of view.

Some problems in the drama have no 'correct' answer and are designed to prompt discussion in a class session. For example, these video clips can be used in a class in the following way.

  1. Show an episode to students.

  2. Discuss the episode in the class.

  3. Show its explanation to students.

  4. Discuss the explanation in the class.

  5. Assign a homework to write a paper on the basis of the clip and discussions.

Synopsis

CHARACTERS

Masami: a female university student. theoretical,and stouthearted

Yukie: a female university student. cheerful and lively

Shunsuke: a male university student. is self-confident of his computer ability, but somewhat timid

Section 1.   Network security

Section 2.   Communications through the network

1. Computer Worm

5. Etiquette in mail communications

Yukie is assisting managing a PC at an NPO. The PC has been acting strangely since this morning. The PC was protected by an antivirus software and the software was updated.

Yukie submits a paper to a teacher as an attachment to an e-mail. Shunsuke sends a mail from his mobile phone to a senior who is now working. Both of them are scolded by the receivers.

2. Spyware

6. Privacy of mail

Masami is being inundated by spam mail. She has no idea where her private information is being leaked. Shunsuke suspects free software.

Shunsuke's friend has run away from home. The friend sends a mail to Shunsuke. However, Shunsuke has no idea where is he. The friend's mother asks Shunsuke to show her the mail.

3. Dangerous HTML mail

7. Managing a Web forum

Shunsuke is receiving mail from a lingerie shopping site. He says that he has never registered his address at the site. He merely clicked on an article in a HTML mail.

Masami receives a mail which requests the deleting of a message on a web forum managed by Masami. She is worried about it.

[Episode (small, a part)]
[Explanation(small, a part)]

4. Malicious Web Page

8. Anonymity and manner on a web forum

Yukie is interested in fashion. She is introduced to a shopping site by a chat friend. She registered her credit card number at the site. After that, she receives a huge bill in spite of never having shopped at the site.

There is a message which insults their friend on Masami's web forum. Masami suspects Shunsuke even though the message was anonymous. She shows the evidence to Shunsuke who pretends innocence.

Section 3.  Copyright and accessibility on web pages

Section 4.   Phishing and privacy

9. Private use of copyrighted material

15. Do away with a PC

 

Shunsuke tries to send an MP3 music file to his brother's friend, but Masami stops him. Shunsuke insists that it is for private use.

 

Shunsuke is interrogated by a professor because his club members list has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous businessman. He has no idea how the businessman obtained it.

10. P2P and broadcasting rights

16. Pyramid selling

 

Yukie forgot to record a TV drama. Shunsuke suggests using a P2P file-sharing software to find a recording of the drama. Masami objects to this because she thinks that it is illegal.

Yukie receives a direct mail which says "I will give you secret information which guarantees that you can make lots of money in a network business". She explains it to Masami and Shunsuke. However, they are taken aback.

11. Quotation

17. Phishing

Yukie is writing a paper. The paper includes quotations of other people's work. Shunsuke thinks that it is a violation of copyright. Yukie and Masami say that they are quotations so it is not a violation of copyright.

Shunsuke receives a mail from a shopping site that says, "You have been chosen for a sale campaign. If you fill in the application form on a special web site, you receive lots of money."

12. Rights of portrait

18. Trickery bill

 

Yukie, Masami and Shunsuke uploaded pictures of their class party onto their web site. Only Yukie receives complaints from her friends.

 

Shunsuke receives a mail with a bill. He has no idea what it is for. He worries whether to pay it or not.

13. Web accessibility

19. Digital shoplifting

 

Shunsuke's grandfather asks him to make a web site for the association of the elderly residents in his neighborhood. He makes the web site and he is proud of it. However, Yukie and Masami pointed out the site's weak points.

 

Yukie takes a picture of an article in a magazine in a bookshop using her mobile phone. Masami cautions Yukie that it is shoplifting. Yukie denies it.

14. Responsibility of public relations

20. Using private information

 

Masami posts an invitation to talk on her web site. Shunsuke transfers that page to his web site. However, he doesn't know the date of the talk has been changed.

 

Yukie is worried about an incident in which customers' private information has been leaked from a major shopping site. On the other hand, Masami notices that the management of private information collected by a survey, has a problem.

 

Produced by

The Association of National Universitys' Education Center for Information Processing (AECIP) in Japan

and

The National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME)

 

The Video Production Task Force Members:

Atsushi Nakamura (Hiroshima University), Shozo Fukada (Ehime University), Izumi Fuse (Hokkaido University),

Ikuya Murata (Hokkaido University of Education), Michio Nakanishi (Osaka Institute of Technology), Shigeto Okabe （Hokkaido University）,

Takahiro Tagawa (Kyushu University), Tatsumi Takeo (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Takashi Yamanoue (Kagoshima University),