BANGALORE
UNIVERSITY
MCA
PROGRAMME
Open Elective: “Cyber Space”
Objectives:
To understand cyber space, social media in cyber space, advantages,
disadvantages, IT Act 2000/2008, Digital Signature, Electronic Signature,
e-commerce, and e-governance
Unit
I: Basics of internet, www, http, html, DNS, IP Address, electronic mail, web
browsers, search engines, Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, whatsapp, LinkedIn,
advantages, disadvantages, privacy issues
Unit
II: e-commerce, advantages of e-commerce, survey on popular e-commerce sites
Unit
III:Introduction to e-governance, stages of e-governance, advantages,
challenges, International Status, Indian status
Unit
IV: IT Act, 2000 salient features, digital signature, electronic signature,
Cyber Appellate Tribunal, Adjudicator, offences, and penalties.
References:
1.
Information Technology Amended Act, 2008,
Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.
2.
SrinivasBhogle, “E-Governance” Chapter III in
Selected Readings on Information Technology Management : Contemporary Issues,
Information Science reference, Hershey, New York, page
no. 40-61.
3.
Tom Huskerson. Social Media, the Good, Bad, and
Ugly: Volume. 3. 2014
4.
RitendraGoel. “e-commerce”, New Age
International Publishers, 2008
5.
Dougals E Comer.
Computer Network and Internet.
Person, 2008
Author
Balaji
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