Ctec 115Final project

All websites being treated the same No preferential loading of websites based on

how they pay

What is net neutrality? How does it affect normal people How does it affect companies

Search tool: Google books Search strategy: typed net neutrality into google

books This source is credible because the when

looking for back ground information on them the information that turned up indicated that they were credible. Another reason the source is credible is because the reviews on the book didn’t point out any major flaws in the book.

Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, and Philip J. Weiser. Digital Crossroads. MIT Press, 2005. google books. http://books.google.com/books?id=tZPgvnoVNMkC

Search tool: time magazine Search strategy: find a reputable magazine and

search their articles for something relating to my topic

This source is credible because checking his background found any real criticism. I read the source and wasn’t able to find anything I know to be untrue or particularly biased. Time magazine is well known and doesn't have any major criticism

Perry bacon jr. “a limit to bloggers’ power. Time. 5 july 2006. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1210430,00.html

Search tool: google scholar Recommended: a paid for database This source is credible because I read through it

and wasn’t didn’t find contradict information to what I already know and the conclusions of it seem logical. The journal was also cited by a number of places

Tim wu. “net neutrality, broadband discrimination” journal on telecommunications and high technology law. 2(2005) 141-179

Recommended: a paid search engine with a emphasis on business or technology.

What I used: searched for a reputable newspaper and searched their articles for things relating to net neutrality

The source is recent enough that it hasn’t become out dated. The newspaper that the article came from is reputable.

Lawrence Lessig and Robert W. McChesney. “no tolls on the internet” washington post. 8 june 2006. A23 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060702108_pf.html

Search strategy I used: I saw it mentioned in one of the articles I read.

This website is not reputable. It has obvious connections with companies that stand to gain from no network neutrality and spouts some silly slogans.

Hands Off the Internet. 28 may 2009. http://www.handsoff.org

Search strategy used: mentioned in a article I read.

Its an website promoting net neutrality. Its largely made up of people who support net neutrality.

Save the internet. Freepress. http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Strategy used: one of the websites I visited had a link to a blog on the subject

I think its ruatable because it comes from a reputable web site. The people writing the blogs don’t sound stupid

“save the internet: blog” save the internet blogcorps. 29 may 2009 http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog

Ted stevens speech on net neutrality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

I think the best sources for this topic are technical things that explain what net neutrality is, articles by people who know what their talking about and have an oppiopn. Good search engines would be things on bissunes and that search newspapers and magazines. Keywords would be things like internet, net, network, and neutrality