Monthly Archives: September 2012

Online Privacy

In the article,” Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck”, the author discusses the inconvenience caused by “News Feeds” where people could have access to their Facebook friends’ activities and sensitive information. However, after the protest of Facebook users again the violation of their privacy, Mark Zuckerberg took some initiatives to stop this annoyance. Indeed, Zckerberg says that the goal of Facebook is to help people share information, but some users use it as source of libel and bullying. For instance, a friend of mind split out with his girlfriend; thus in order to take her revenge, she used his own Facebook page to gossip several bad things about him include their sexual life, and all his receive those horrible posts. In fact, she was able to do that because she knew his password.

Concerning the online privacy, I thing that something must be done by the government to stop the tracking of other people information because if someone has some information about what you like, what you do, and what kind of website you surf, it is like you are walking naked in front of him, so he can harm you at anytime he want.

Homework6.

Facebook has changed alot since it first opened when it was for college students only. im starting to dislike it even more because of the lack of privacy people have. You can basically stalk people in a way. Seeing what peoples first post ever was due to the timeline. i really think this needs to change so people can be more protective.

Increasing Dislike for Facebook – HW# 6 Destiny Modeste

Being a user of Facebook, I’ve noticed all the changes discussed in “Facebook Privacy Trainwreck” by Danah Boyd. I too, have become unsatisfied with the constant changes they make to the site. The other day I was trying to figure out how to prevent people from commenting on photos or statuses because I have friends that do say inappropriate things and unnecessary comments, and noticed that facebook had taken that feature off earlier this year. I believe that is one of the worst things that have come with the update. I also hate timeline. In the article, Boyd discusses about a queer group and how people couldn’t notice if you joined or left it; timeline now allows people to know everything you do and when you do it, on which day or year. Facebook has become the ultimate site for stalkers and the youth who are using it are just letting them know everything they want to see/hear. Facebook privacy is bad but you agree to those terms when you first click “Sign Up.”

-Destiny Modeste

Exposure HW#6

“Avoiding social networking site is not, however, a guarantee of privacy. For IPSs and search engine providers can learn a good deal about customers by tracking the searches they make.” In reading both assigned articles I concluded what I had learned before in one of my classes, which is that not only do social websites expose our personal information we give but also other non social websites that use our information for contact, promotion, ads, and so on. I myself have a facebook account but I make sure I don’t provide personal information I want other to know. In the facebook article where there was an example of burglars knowing when someone would be in vacation to make there act, that actually happen to my co worker. There is no more privacy in the web so the only thing is to due is look for other alternatives or make sure a web is trust worthy, like buying a textbook online.

H.W. 6 Reno A

Facebook have become the biggest social network over the years, but during 2006 Facebook did have their flaws. The “News Feed” was the biggest problem that has followers or user to be concerned about using Facebook; it’s becoming an invasion to people privacy. People can see their friend’s relationship status, recent post, etc.; it’s mostly that people have access to other people private information. This also makes the user have less option of what they can hide or not, and this kind of leave them in public eye. I do think that “Newsfeed” is way over the top and it makes you feel uncomfortable to see you friend business (it’s kind of weird) but still you on a social Networking if you put something on the surf web it not private anymore.

Emira Marra, Homework #6 facebook

Facebook has greatly and drastically changed the social norms of privacy that we understand today. “Newsfeed” had become a serious issue within the Facebook community and, I can clearly see how that may have developed. Newsfeed blatantly displays peoples recent activities, relationship, family and day to day status’. I disagree with Mark Zuckerberg, that information is already easily accessible because what if someone did not think to search another’s page to find information as opposed to logging on and having the information of their daily activities in front of you. It would raise less curiosity to the other person and,one is still willingly allowed to search anthers page but without being uncomfortably exposed to an acquaintance on Facebook.

Homework #6 – Charles Baculima-Castillo

I learned that on September 5th, 2006 Facebook launched a new feature called “News Feed” which angered many people because they saw it as an invasion of privacy. As a result, this led them to create groups and pages within the Facebook website itself that were against the new feature. I never experienced this myself because I joined Facebook in 2011, which was a lot later. I disagree with the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on saying that all the information on someone was public anyway. On a technical standpoint; he is right because all the information on the News Feed can be viewed on everyone’s individual profiles, but people actually had to put time and effort to find certain information. With News Feed, everything little detail is added to that page which is accessible when someone enters Facebook and log in.

Notes from today, and reading and blogging homework for Monday, October 1

Today we discussed access to information — personal and institutional. Slides from today are available here.

On Monday, October 1, we’ll discuss privacy. Please read two articles:
Marshall, P.  Online privacy. CQ Researcher, 19, 933-956.
boyd, d. (2008). Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14:1, 13-20. Write one reading response blog post. Help accessing articles from the library’s subscription databases is available here.

I forgot to mention an important event taking place tomorrow: NYC Votes! youth voter registration jam will be held tomorrow at 3 pm at Lehman CollegeTomorrow at Lehman College!, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West in the Bronx. Stop by if you’re in the area. Extra credit if you take a picture of yourself with Rosario Dawson at the event and post it to the course site!

 

Today I distributed guidelines for the research proposal in class. Get in touch by email or come by my office hours if you have questions about the research proposal, due October 24.

~Prof. Leonard

 

Summary of the article ” The Politics of Research”

In the article “The Politics of Research”, the author discusses the motivations of research. In fact, Martin says are based on the gain of knowledge and power. Next, he classifies the different kinds of knowledge, and he concludes that there is a connection between knowledge and power. On top of that, the author says that education precedes knowledge and knowledge precedes power because government, business leaders and parents rely on educated people to maintain the nation survival. Also, according to Martin, education aids people to get the bodies of knowledge and research is the investigation and improvement of existing knowledge. However, once becoming an expert in specific domain, government, big companies use that knowledge to generate power that is used to control other citizens.

Personally, I think everything is based on money making; research is expensive, so I find normal that research investors try to make profit of it after it’s done.

Notes from today, and reading/blogging homework for Monday, September 24

Today we discussed Web 2.0, social media, social networking, and participatory media. The typewith.me document we created is available here. We ran out of time before we could view and discuss a few videos in class. One is the Tim Berners-Lee TED talk embedded in the open data article you read for today; the other is The Machine is Us/ing Us:

On Monday 9/24, we’ll move into a discussion of access — personal and institutional, and the digital divide. Please read Martin, The Politics of Research (pdf). Use the comments feature of the course site to comment on a classmate’s blog post: one comment of at least 100 words or 2 comments of 50 words minimum on 2 different posts. Please get in touch if you have any questions or issues with the comment feature.

Slides from today are available here.

 

~Prof. Leonard