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New assignment is to assess a couple resources on technology and privacy. This is posted a bit late, but hopefully valid nonetheless.
1. http://www.hastac.org/node/1960
A good look at the privacy worries that Facebook causes, as well as the privacy settings on Facebook itself. Discusses how such issues may affect life or change people as well as society, and is rather thorough. However, it could have been longer and more thorough, as he notes the change in Facebook's ToS, but chooses not to comment on it (more than just "Facebook is a jerk for doing it, here's a link to a source) and instead ands the article there.
2. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2378/2089
A very long and very thorough article. However, this article applies nigh exclusively to China, and so it's use for us, in California, is very limited and hard to see. Also, is this article needed its own table of contents, I feel that it could have been made shorter in order for it to be more accessible/friendly for the average person.
3. http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever
This article once again concentrates on facebook as a facet or example of today's privacy issues. This article, however, is different because it focuses on this site's ToS change, instead of privacy for facebook in general. The article, however, is short, to the point, and rather opinionated, so some people may be left wanting a bit more detail, whereas the other too gave a very good amount of detail (possibly too much so in the second article). It will however be a very good source for people who just want to be able to figure out what's happening in a short time.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your assessments of the articles. You evaluated the sources and their material quite well. However, you repeat a few viewpoints and have a little bit of cleaning up to do.
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