Information Technology Assignment: Social Media and Online Stores

This IT assignment delves into the multifaceted aspects of information technology, addressing critical issues such as social media censorship, its benefits, and associated problems. The assignment explores the role of a potential 'policeman' for social media and examines the government's involvement in censorship. Furthermore, the assignment presents a practical application through a case study, requiring the creation of a context diagram for an online cell phone app store, detailing relevant data flows, stores, processes, and sources/sinks. The solution provides a detailed analysis of an online store selling iPhone cases, including a welcome page, customer interaction, and payment processing, culminating in a successful order placement or cancellation based on payment status and phone model validation. The assignment showcases a comprehensive understanding of IT concepts through practical application and critical analysis.

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Question 1:
The benefits are:
 It can provide security of another level that id against the identity of theft. The
censorship can restrict the ability of identifying thieves for gathering data about the
user. It means, the user can protect the social security number and other confidential
things form being compromised.
 The censorship is having the ability to identify the special activities that are illegal. It
also adds the measures of security for the daily lives of people (Allison, 2019). It can
also reduce the false data levels that can be found online. This has been possible for
manipulating video for various decades. The efforts can take a lot of time, money and
skill.
 It provides the society an opportunity for being respectful to the others. It can make a
system where all the people can respect the life perspective of one another’s’ life.
The disadvantages are:
 It works for controlling the flow of news.
 It disrupts the freedom for conducting conversations that belongs to business.
 The censorship that is for the internet may limit the national economy. The costliest
result that can come from this to some specific apps and services (Cardoso et al.,
2018). The subnational and national disruption of the internet can reduce the
economic development level for future.
 The online information censorship can create the level of intelligence lower. It can
also restrict the right of the people that they will not be able anymore to share their
opinion.

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 The censorship forces the organisations for taking their content down which can be
harmful for them (Hobbs & Roberts, 2018). After implementation this might be
possible for stopping the content from being shared.
Yes someone needs to be appointed as the policeman of social media as there is need of
monitoring the suspicious activities that are going into the social media. After appointing a
policeman, the things will be in control as some of the activities will be able to monitor
earlier.
The government should become the censor as after becoming censor they will be having
the ability to control the unwanted activities. However, the campaigns are against the
censorship of the government as the filtering and censorship leads in monitoring which can
be harmful for the organisation as that can invade the privacy of public.
Yes! In most of the countries, the govt. at various level have been in the fore front into the
campaign for the internet which is regulated.
Question 2:
Below is a context level diagram for a customer when he would like to buy an
application for his mobile phone.

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Question 3:
For the case main scenario is, an online store sell phones cases for iPhone only. There
will be a welcome page for the customer where they will select the model of their iPhone.
The customers can buy more than 1 phone case. The customers will then make the payment
by card. If the card will not work then the order will be canceled automatically. After
successful payment the order will be placed successfully. The diagram for this scenario is as
follows:

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and strong cosmic censorship. Physical review letters, 120(3), 031103.
Hobbs, W. R., & Roberts, M. E. (2018). How sudden censorship can increase access to
information. American Political Science Review, 112(3), 621-636.
Okamoto, K., Suzuki, K., Takada, T., Strasberg, S. M., Asbun, H. J., Endo, I., ... & Asai, K.
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