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e justice (Electronic Justice) Small Claims court dissertation project

Alex Cooper — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:12:21 +0000

dissertation project to research the idea of electronic justice (e-justice) and develop a web based small claims court using PHP and MySQL, and whether such a system could replace the current court system. E-justice could be defined as an umbrella term for the use of information technology practices within the judiciary system. For this project we are researching the possibility of whether these technologies can be utilised to provide a fully electronic justice system (e-justice), whereby, through the use of computing, justice can be attained.

Facebook Phishing

Alex Cooper — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:42:22 +0000

Going Phishing with Fakebook (Facebook): The art of deceiving students Recently i did (my first go at ) a research poster for Psychology of Internet Behaviour – and since my area of interest is privacy/security on Social Networking sites (such as facebook & myspace) i thought it would be a good idea to do a [...]

Social Network Sites: a threat to our privacy?

Alex Cooper — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:18:45 +0000

Downloads: Research Paper Results of the Experiment Results of the Survey (requires a PDF reader) Abstract This research project aims to explore the reasons why students choose to use social networking sites, yet make so much personal information, such as name, date of birth, and even contact details for example e-mail address and phone numbers [...]

Research on Social Networking Sites (Facebook & Myspace) Privacy

Alex Cooper — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:00:58 +0000

Research proposal on are social networking sites such as facebook and myspace a threat to our privacy, the research paper has also been uploaded.

Life Collage (using SMIL)

Alex Cooper — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:12:35 +0000

my intepretation of Life Collage a presentation created in SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)

Has the evolution of Flash technology allowed modern 2D animators more or less creative freedom?

Alex Cooper — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:28:43 +0000

Animation can range from something as simple as flashing text, the movement of picture frame by frame and also includes stop motion animation such as ‘Wallace & Gromit’. The term, “Animate literally means to bring to life.” (Chapman, 2004, 242) 2D animation has parallels with traditional animation. Traditional animation refers to the techniques used by [...]

DRM is Evil?

Alex Cooper — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:42 +0000

Is DRM Evil? - Digital Rights Management, is merely a method of protecting content from piracy...or is it? Is DRM used by Apple, Microsoft, Sony really protecting their software/products from piracy or is it a way of control?