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Electronic Marketing | Week 2
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12 March
Digital world, net plumbing, net issues

Learning objectives: Using examples,
  • Illustrate the electronic marketing relevance of Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and Wirth's Law (NY Times, Ch 3)
  • Apply five broad guidelines for evaluating web page credibility (238-40, Virtual Chase)
  • Discuss the need for net governance and how countries or organisations could govern the Internet (ICANN, IETF, W3C, IANA)
  • Discuss two key ways the Internet has changed marketing (article)
  • Discuss three network aspects of the Internet: social, content and technological (Ch 3)
  • Illustrate four components of digital environments (51-6)
  • Describe convergence, digitisation, rss, open standards, semantic web, extranets and intranets
  • Identify correct "Elementary rules of usage" (EOS)
Activities: Demystify the Internet, Submit computer lab recap; submit group contract (by 14 March at 2pm).

Readings:
Discussion and reflection:
  • Why are Strunk and White's Elements of Style relevant to electronic marketing? Communication? Your marks?
  • Why are LimeWire, Kazaa and others good or bad?
  • When should you trust what you read on the Web?
  • How does the net influence globalisation?
  • Who should run the net and why?
  • How and why will net usage vary by country?
  • Why, or why not, does convergence make sense?
  • Where is digitisation headed?
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