11  Final Presentations

11.1 Complete course evaluations

The graduate programs asked that professors reserve time at the start of class for students to fill out their course evaluations. I will give everyone 10 minutes (5 minute check-in) to fill out the course evaluation.

11.2 Final presentations

The goal of this final is to develop and deliver a clear, concise, and engaging presentation on a topic of your choice within a strict 5-minute time limit, but your target audience will be randomized. This exercise will help you improve your research, organization, and public speaking skills.

The presentation topic can be anything you learned in this course. It can be on something you wrote, in class discussion, contents in the book or other materials you read/watched, as long as it relates back to security, privacy, ethics, and equity.

11.2.1 Target audience and presentation topic

Student Last Name Target Audience Presentation Topic
Androlewicz family-friends Difference between cookies in the United States and European Union
Boyar family-friends Delta Airlines claiming it doesn’t use AI to price airline tickets individually
Choate family-friends Geopolitical impacts and privacy risks of transmitting individual US data across borders
Clayman family-friends Data privacy with smart devices
Cousins classmates-coworkers Incognito Isn’t Invisible: What Private Browsing Actually Hides
Daversa local-government-policymaker Importance of GIS data for decision-making and the security aspects of collecting better GIS data
Dowdy classmates-coworkers TikTok: the good bad and ugly (algorithm, data privacy, and soread information)
Duhil de Benaze classmates-coworkers How human behaviors, such as phishing, weak passwords, and social engineering create vulnerabilities in cybersecurity systems
Espinal-Guzman family-friends Your data is everywhere, what you didn’t know you are sharing
Gallishaw local-government-policymaker Recent work on creating a national privacy law, such as the American Data Privacy and Protection Act proposal and/or the American Privacy Rights Act proposal
Garratt funders-media Protecting relationship data
Kim local-government-policymaker Privacy and ethical concerns for children on social media
Morris funders-media Ethics of AI in sports
Mueller local-government-policymaker Environmental issues, water quality data
O’Brien family-friends National Football League consumer data violation
Pacheco classmates-coworkers Normalization of surveillance in digital and physical spaces and the ethical concerns
Pushard local-government-policymaker How local policymakers in Maine can respond to existing federal data privacy laws—particularly in the context of AI—by developing and implementing targeted education and awareness programs for the state’s population.
Scott classmates-coworkers Period tracking apps like Flo and how they use health data
Thadeio classmates-coworkers Security challenges in journalism through the lens of public media data
Thorbahn funders-media Are phones actually listening to you?
Washington funders-media Is it safe for AI chat bots to handle people’s personal information?

* == indicates students swapped target audience.

11.2.2 Evaluation of the presentation

TThe following is how I will evaluate your presentations. Each part will be scored from 1 to 6, as detailed below.

  1. Content and audience (6 points)

    • 6: Clear purpose and content that addresses the target audience.
    • 3: Moderate clarity and relevance to the target audience.
    • 1: Unclear purpose and irrelevant to the target audience.

  2. Organization and structure (6 points)

    • 6: Well-organized with a clear and strong flow (introduction, middle, and conclusion).
    • 3: Moderately organized with adequate flow.
    • 1: Poorly organized, missing key structural elements.

  3. Delivery and timing (6 points)

    • 6: Enthusiastic and engaging, with good pacing, within 30 seconds of the time limit.
    • 3: Some enthusiasm and minor pacing issues, within 30 seconds to 1 minute of the time limit.
    • 1: Lacks enthusiasm, poor pacing, over 1 minute off the time limit.

  4. Quality of slides or other visual aids (6 points)

    • 6: Enhances the presentation.
    • 3: Somewhat contributes to the presentation.
    • 1: Does not contribute to the presentation.

  5. Overall quality (6 points)

    • 6: Highly effective in achieving the goal.
    • 3: Somewhat effective in achieving the goal.
    • 1: Ineffective in achieving the goal.

11.2.3 Presentation order

set.seed(42)

library(tidyverse)
library(dplyr)

sample(c("Androlewicz", "Boyar", "Choate", "Clayman", "Cousins", "Daversa", 
              "Dowdy", "Duhil de Benaze", "Espinal-Guzman", "Gallishaw", "Garratt", "Kim",
              "Morris", "Mueller", "O’Brien", "OKeefe", "Pacheoco",
              "Pushard", "Scott", "Thadeio", "Thorbahn", "Washington"), replace = FALSE)
 [1] "Pacheoco"        "Cousins"         "Androlewicz"     "Gallishaw"      
 [5] "Clayman"         "Washington"      "OKeefe"          "O’Brien"        
 [9] "Duhil de Benaze" "Dowdy"           "Pushard"         "Espinal-Guzman" 
[13] "Thorbahn"        "Kim"             "Boyar"           "Mueller"        
[17] "Choate"          "Thadeio"         "Scott"           "Daversa"        
[21] "Morris"          "Garratt"

11.2.4 Schedule

Time (EDT) Student Order
4:05 pm - 5:15 pm Pacheoco
– Cousins
– Androlewicz
– Gallishaw
– Clayman
– Washington
– O’Brien
– Duhil de Benaze
– Dowdy
– Pushard
5:15 pm - 5:20 pm Break
5:20 pm - 6:30 pm Espinal-Guzman
– Thorbahn
– Kim
– Boyar
– Mueller
– Choate
– Thadeio
– Scott
– Daversa
– Morris
– Garratt

11.2.5 Vote for your favorite presentation

Each year, I ask students to vote for their favorite presentation. The person with the most votes will receive a gift card to a local café or restaurant of their choice (or whatever business as long as is locally owned), paid for by me. You cannot vote for yourself.

After all the presentations are complete, please submit your vote here.