The introduction of mobile apps such as Meerkat, Periscope, and Facebook Live has sparked enthusiasm for live-streaming video. This study explores the legal and ethical implications of mobile live-streaming video apps through a review of public-policy considerations and the computing literature as well as analyses of a mix of quantitative and qualitative user data. We identify lines of research inquiry for five policy challenges and two areas of the literature in which the impact of these apps is so far unaddressed. The detailed data gathered from these inquiries will significantly contribute to the design and development of tools, signals or affordances to address the concerns that our study identifies. We hope our work will help shape the fields of ubiquitous computing and collaborative and social computing, jurisprudence, public policy and applied ethics in the future.
The purpose of this preliminary study was to investigate the impact of three diverse attendance and participation policies in face-to-face and online courses and the effect on students' final grades in each course. We examined nine different undergraduate courses taught between Fall 2010 and Spring 2015. The results suggest that a more stringent attendance policy significantly impacts student attendance, absences were negatively correlated with course grades, and that course delivery methods were not predictive of either attendance/participation or course grades. Additional research is needed to determine what other factors might influence attendance and participation and correlation to course grades.
RADIO SPECTRUM (FCC), the government agency responsible for spectrum allocation within the United States, has already notified one user group, electric utilities, that they will have to move off a segment of spectrum to make room for personal communications services (PCS) and personal communications networks (PCNs). 15 Third, another group of spectrum users, amateur radio operators, has had legislation introduced in both the House and Senate that would protect amateur radio allocations. S. 137216 and H.R. 7317 would mandate the FCC to provide equivalent spectrum for amateur radio operators should any of their existing spectrum be reallocated for other purposes. Both bills reveal that amateur radio has already lost over 100 MHz of spectrum through reallocation by the FCC.18 Such so-called first generation services may be faced with relinquishing portions of their spectrum in order to make room for new technologies.' 9 In addition, those that are non-mobile in nature may be forced to switch from wireless to wireline technology, 20 which may involve expensive and extensive retrofitting for users of these services. Fourth, the World Administrative Radio Conference, the international body responsible for allocating radio spectrum for the entire world, met in Torremolinos, Spain, for a month, beginning February 3, 1992.21 The ability of WARC-92 to provide a viable forum
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