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Tonight: Cyberethics workshop
Join is for our first CiD presentation: Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary and CiD member will present Cyberethics, on the Relationships we Pursue in Cyberspace.
Cyberethics for Seminarians
In this series of videos Dr. Sebastian Mahfood addresses the subject of cyberethics for seminarians.
CYBERETHICS: Our Relationships in Cyberspace
Dr. Sebastian Mahfood,
Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies,
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary
CYBERETHICS:
Our Relationships in Cyberspace
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 7-8 pm
Main Auditorium, Cardinal Rigali Center
20 Archbishop May Drive, Shrewsbury, MO 63119
$5 suggested donation — RSVP
Cyberbullying and Other Ethical Excesses in Cyberspace
ST. LOUIS, MO — Last Summer, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill outlawing cyberbullying. The action followed the suicide death, two years earlier, of a 13-year-old Missouri girl jilted by an imaginary, online boyfriend created by a neighbor.
On Thursday, February 19th, at the Cardinal Rigali Center in St. Louis, Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, associate professor of intercultural studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, will present a lecture on “Our Relationships in Cyberspace.” Dr. Mahfood is an authority on “cyberethics,” the application of moral standards to the internet and other virtual reality arenas. Mahfood contends that technology is an extension of our selves and that we need to remember that we are interacting with real persons when we engage them via websites, blogs, videos, and other online forums. Cyberbullying is one of several specific cases he will address.
In his presentation, and the question-and-answer session to follow, Dr. Mahfood will also discuss internet courtesy or “netiquette,” internet slander, anonymous blogging, plagiarism in cyberspace, software piracy, humorous and harmful hoaxes, etc.
Dr. Mahfood is a founding member of Catholic Internet Developers (CiD), a networking and support group for St. Louis-area writers, artists, and programmers providing content for the internet.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Mahfood, please contact: Bob Duplantier, Chairman
Catholic Internet Developers
New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship
Pope Asks Young Catholics to Use Technology to Share Their Faith
The theme for the 2009 World Communications Day, which will be celebrated May 24 in most dioceses, is “New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship.”
Releasing the message—which included e-mailing it directly to 100,000 young Catholics around the world and asking them to forward it or post it on their Web sites—the Vatican also announced that it would take a further step into the digital age by making video of the pope available on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.
February CiD Event — Cyberethics Workshop
Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary and CiD founding member will offer a workshop entitled
Cyberethics, on the Relationships we Pursue in Cyberspace
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 7 - 8 pm
Main Auditorium, Cardinal Rigali Center
20 Archbishop May Drive, Shrewsbury, MO 63119
$5 suggested donation — RSVP
Reservations accepted through February 19
Because any technology we use functions as an extension of our acting selves, we have to comprehend the technology of cyberspace in terms of persons extending themselves to one another, an idea that can be called ‘the personalization principle.’ It is this principle that makes us consciously aware that our interacting with websites, blogs, videos, and other online endeavors is a personal encounter with another. Without this understanding, it is too easy for us to view the persons whom we encounter in cyberspace as merely a means to our own ends without responding to them properly through love.
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Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
1. Using Frames
2. Gratuitous Use of Bleeding-Edge Technology
3. Scrolling Text, Marquees, and Constantly Running Animations
4. Complex URLs
5. Orphan Pages
6. Long Scrolling Pages
7. Lack of Navigation Support
8. Non-Standard Link Colors
9. Outdated Information
10. Overly Long Download Times
Jakob Nielsen, SunSoft Distinguished Engineer, gives specifics in each of these ten topics in his Alert Box for May 1996. An oldie, but still a goodie.
Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies
. . . three basic guidelines for making effective color choices that work for nearly everyone. Following the guidelines are explanations of the three perceptual attributes of color — hue, lightness and saturation — as they are used by vision scientists.
Effective Color Contrast by Aries Arditi, PhD
Internet: a New Forum for Proposing the Gospel
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard? For it is only when his face is seen and his voice heard that the world will know the glad tidings of our redemption. This is the purpose of evangelization. And this is what will make the Internet a genuinely human space, for if there is no room for Christ, there is no room for man. Therefore, on this World Communications Day, I dare to summon the whole Church bravely to cross this new threshold, to put out into the deep of the Net, so that now as in the past the great engagement of the Gospel and culture may show to the world “the glory of God on the face of Christ” (2 Cor 4:6). May the Lord bless all those who work for this aim.
Message of the Pope John Paul II, 36th World Communications Day, Sunday, May 12, 2002
Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel
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