Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.
3.6 Digital Citizenship Assignment
( Due: Sun, 22 Sep | Status: Not Completed )
In the assignment this week, you will research how digital tools and technologies affected a major historical event. You will build upon your use of research, Diigo, and evaluating sources to create a presentation of information related to the event and digital citizenship.
Using methods that you have learned this month,
Research how the concept of digital citizenship was used by
Individuals
News media
And websites
At federal, state and local levels.
Then identify and explain concepts and elements of digital citizenship that occurred after the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013
Detail the concepts and elements of digital citizenship, the digital tools used and how you feel that they impacted the aftermath of this tragic event.
For the best presentation, include both positive and negative effects of tools and technologies used after this event. Be sure to support your statement with research. The use of Diigo may be helpful to collect your research.
Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
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Google chairman on Boston bombing:'The first thing you have online may not be correct'
"FBI to take lead in investigation, seeks bomb 'signature'
It was unclear who may have planted the marathon bombs. There were no credible threats before the race, a state government official said.
There is no suspect in custody, but many people are being questioned, Davis said.
Investigators warned police to be on the lookout for a "darker-skinned or black male" with a possible foreign accent in connection with the attack, according to a law enforcement advisory obtained by CNN. The man was seen with a black backpack and sweatshirt and was trying to get into a restricted area about five minutes before the first explosion, the lookout notice states.
Also, a Saudi national with a leg wound was under guard at a Boston hospital in connection with the bombings, but investigators cannot say he is involved at this time and he is not in custody, a law enforcement official said Monday evening.
In addition to scrutinizing images of surveillance cameras in the area, the FBI likely was issuing subpoenas for records from cell towers in the area to isolate and trace calls from around Copley Square at the time of the blasts, according to a former federal law enforcement official who now works in the intelligence community.
The unexploded devices that were recovered could provide a treasure trove of information such as fingerprints and indications of the bomb maker's design, and from the bombs that did explode, investigators would be looking for fragments and anything indicating the "signature" of the bomb makers, the official told CNN.
As authorities searched the scene, numerous suspicious packages were found, possibly because people fled the area, leaving items behind. Investigators were checking them.
All off-duty Boston police were called in.
The Marriott hotel at Copley Place was evacuated as a precaution.
The Lenox Hotel was also evacuated as a precaution, the Boston Globe reported."
FBI to take lead in investigation, seeks bomb 'signature'
It was unclear who may have planted the marathon bombs. There were no credible threats before the race, a state government official said.
There is no suspect in custody, but many people are being questioned, Davis said.
Investigators warned police to be on the lookout for a "darker-skinned or black male" with a possible foreign accent in connection with the attack, according to a law enforcement advisory obtained by CNN. The man was seen with a black backpack and sweatshirt and was trying to get into a restricted area about five minutes before the first explosion, the lookout notice states.
Also, a Saudi national with a leg wound was under guard at a Boston hospital in connection with the bombings, but investigators cannot say he is involved at this time and he is not in custody, a law enforcement official said Monday evening.
In addition to scrutinizing images of surveillance cameras in the area, the FBI likely was issuing subpoenas for records from cell towers in the area to isolate and trace calls from around Copley Square at the time of the blasts, according to a former federal law enforcement official who now works in the intelligence community.
The unexploded devices that were recovered could provide a treasure trove of information such as fingerprints and indications of the bomb maker's design, and from the bombs that did explode, investigators would be looking for fragments and anything indicating the "signature" of the bomb makers, the official told CNN.
As authorities searched the scene, numerous suspicious packages were found, possibly because people fled the area, leaving items behind. Investigators were checking them.
All off-duty Boston police were called in.
The Marriott hotel at Copley Place was evacuated as a precaution.
The Lenox Hotel was also evacuated as a precaution, the Boston Globe reported.
"Authorities used cutting-edge tools to capture bombing suspect
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4/22/13 Matt Kwong of MSN News
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From infrared devices to robots, FBI and other law enforcement units used some sophisticated tools to capture the Boston bombing suspect.
The black-and-white aerial footage, shot from a thermal camera above a suburban scene in Watertown, has an almost ominous quality to it, with its target in crosshairs and lack of audio.
When the Massachusetts state police's forward-looking infrared (FLIR) device swoops around a rooftop, the revelation below is striking — a heat signature radiating from inside a boat, apparently showing a human form curled under a tarp.
We now know that the man concealed in that boat was surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arrested Friday after his brother, Tamerlan, was fatally wounded in a shootout with police.
The video from the FLIR camera, released over the weekend, demonstrated some of the cutting-edge tools that FBI and special tactical units deploy for crime-fighting and counter-terrorism.
It all boils down to making it harder for criminal elements and terrorists to hide, says Greg Gilbertson, a former SWAT unit tactical officer and expert on stakeouts.
"The technologies they use now are absolutely sophisticated," Gilbertson said. "There's some thermal imaging that can be used now where police can look through residential walls for drug interdiction, looking for heat lamps for marijuana growth or detecting meth labs."
In the Boston case, frame grabs from a department store surveillance camera captured the two suspects' faces in grainy detail. An electronic card swipe tracked one of them to a college gym after the explosions. Flashbang grenades were launched to stun Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to hopefully flush him out from his hiding place.
Gilbertson, who has also been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan to train police, said the robot used to gingerly lift the tarpaulin concealing Tsarnaev was similar those used to remove improvised explosive devices in overseas warzones.
"The idea is if something goes wrong, it's better for the robot to get blown up than a human being," Gilbertson said. "They can use those robotic arms to grasp things, or in this case pull the tarp back so they can actually see inside that boat."
Related: Boston Marathon bombing suspect charged with using weapon of mass destruction
Another future crime-fighting or counterterrorism tool could be the type of facial-recognition software featured on TV programs like CSI, in which images can be zoomed in on, enhanced, then sharpened into crisp focus. The technology isn't quite there yet.
"That might be the holy grail," said Jim Wedick, a decorated former FBI investigator who worked for 35 years with the bureau.
"To be able to get to a point where we can put all those photographs in and, for a large-scale operation, have facial recognition, we're nowhere close right now," he said. "But the bureau has been attempting to get there."
The software used for facial recognition by many police departments is actually open source.
"Some departments may be using more commercial equipment, so anything from iPhoto on Apple computers to Picasa with Google, which is good at detecting faces," explained Chris Parsons, a privacy and security consultant in British Columbia.
As far as helping to filter through the noise of everyday street life for potential clues captured on hundreds of hours of tape, the technology doesn't make it much easier. According to The Washington Post, one investigator working on the Boston bombings case scrutinized the same segment of video more than 400 times.
Wedick added that the FBI also has extensive databases for forensic investigations, with archives of data on everything from blood spatter patterns to types of paint to tool markings.
Those databases could be instrumental in tracing where bomb-makers purchased certain components for their explosive devices. It was reported, for example, that agents had recovered a Tenergy battery used in at least one of the pressure cooker bombs that the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly set off.
Related: The 5-day manhunt for Boston suspects
Wedick said the battery was considered a crucial clue that would have filled in some of the backstory in the lead-up to the deadly explosions that killed three people and injured more than 170 last week.
"We would have photographed the battery and sent it back to the bureau and they would give us a report: who had it, where it was manufactured, how many different locales that part was sent to," Wedick explained. "An investigator would be able to send out a lead and interview people at, say, the six stores that the part was sold in in the southeast."
Items like pressure cookers would also have product serial numbers that FBI investigators would use to narrow down an area in which they could have been purchased.
Weapons developers around the world have been working on devices such as ultra-precise sonic cannons, which would be military-level upgrades to the long-range acoustic devices (LRAD) used to incapacitate crowds during the 2011 Occupy movement.
Gilbertson said such nonlethal measures appear to be where technology is headed.
The flashbang grenades lobbed at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when he was hiding in the boat was one example of this.
"It's designed to be non-injurious, but it's a very disorienting and disturbing experience because it makes an incredible noise and a blinding light," Gilbertson said. "You use the tools that you have available to you. Here, I think they did a wonderful job of taking him into custody without killing him.
"It's easy to kill people; it's harder to keep them alive.""
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