Monthly Archives: February 2012

Notes from today, and reading, viewing and blogging for Monday, March 5

Today we discussed plagiarism and academic misconduct from both academic/educational perspectives and “real-world” perspectives. Though we did not have time to watch it in class, I encourage you all to view Katie Couric’s interview with Jayson Blair. See today’s slides … Continue reading

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Privacy

Privacy is never a sure thing once you submit any type if information about yourself on the web. Basically of you look at it you are obligated to put information about yourself on the web because once you have entered … Continue reading

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Plagiarism

Throughout my high school years, plagiarism was seen as something that could call for expulsion simply because one shouldn’t mimic another’s words and call them their own. And that’s the way is still is. In the Chronicle Review article, Maurice … Continue reading

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Notes from today, and reading and blogging for Wednesday 2/29

Today we discussed some of the legal and social aspects of privacy as well as how our understanding and expectations of privacy change depending on the context. Here’s a question I did not get a chance to ask you all: … Continue reading

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Is Online Privacy Really Private?

We all know that online privacy has a large gray area of what’s usually seen and what’s not. And we all know too well that our online privacy isn’t really private because anyone with the right programs and technological skills … Continue reading

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Online Privacy

The internet is a modern marvel growing at an exponential rate every day, so of course advertisers and retailers have to exploit it. The “online piracy” article brings us up to speed about how invasive companies and markets can be … Continue reading

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Privacy

One thing that i learn about the web is that anything you do is never private. Privacy on web pages is just saying that they’ll hide info from others that visit the same website and can view your profile. But … Continue reading

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Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck

Nomatter what the creaters of Facebook do people will always find someething obscure and unwanted about it.  In the article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck,” Danah Boyd discusses how in 2006 Facebook inplamented the “News Feed” feature.  This was a way that … Continue reading

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Online Privacy: Promised but not Followed

Internet privacy is promise in so many places but when you really look at it, is it really followed? People these days do not even notice how hard hackers work these days just to steal your information and somehow always … Continue reading

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Online privacy friend or foe?

Generally we can be summed up as trusting individuals . We are easily swayed into believing the hype.  This is the case to be made in Patrick Marshall’s piece on ” Online Privacy”. He factually layers on the dangers associated … Continue reading

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