I hope our privacy discussion got you thinking about your relationship to all of the information “out there” that is about you, and what rights you have to controlling that personal or private information. I found an interesting New York Times article about privacy on college campuses in the wake of the 2008 Virginia Tech shooting: “After Campus Shootings, U.S. to Ease Privacy Rules.”
On Wednesday, we’ll be discussing ethics in information and media, including copyright and fair use, open access, and plagiarism. For Wednesday, please read the following 2 articles:
Isserman, “Plagiarism: a lie of the mind.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(34), B12.
Center for Social Media. 2008. The code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education. “Code” and “Principles” sections only.
and watch these videos:
Lawrence L. 2007. “The Law is Strangling Creativity”
Faden, E. 2007. “A Fair(y) Use Tale.”
Your blogging homework is one reading response blog post; one comment on another’s post. Please make the blog post a substantial reflection on the readings and viewing; the comment should be shorter, but try to make it relevant and pithy. Not simply “I agree with your point!”
Slides from today are available here.
~Prof. Leonard
