Communicating in Plain Sight
One passage from It’s Complicated by danah boyd that caught my attention was, “Many teens are happy to publicly perform their social dramas for their classmates and acquaintances, provided that only...
View ArticleSocial Media provides more gaps between parents and teens
“Social media has introduced a new dimension to the well-worn fights over private space and personal expression.” Have you ever hide part of your school life as secrets from your parents through social...
View ArticleSurveillance and Freedom of Speech: Should the U.S succumb to an 1984 type of...
Put simply, surveillance is a systematic way of searching for a flaw in a pool of data and when a camera is pointed at somebody, they knowingly change the ways that they act and even think while they...
View ArticleSocial Media as a Brand
“Rather than asking themselves if the information to be shared is significant enough to be broadly publicized, they question whether it is intimate enough to require special protection. In other words,...
View ArticleSocial Media Is Basically Spy Training
“Rather than finding privacy by controlling access to content, many teens are instead controlling access to meaning.” (Boyd, 76) Discussing this quote leads to some of the key differences between...
View ArticleThe Different Social Medias
In chapter 2 of Its Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens, author Danah Boyd jumps into the role social media plays in the lives of today’s youth. Specifically, she analyzes how much youth...
View ArticleHaving Something to Hide in the Social Media Age
“she has started creating a ‘light version’ of her life that she’ll regularly share on Facebook just so that her friends don’t pester her about what’s actually happening. Much to her frustration, she...
View ArticleRedefining Privacy
With the popularization of social media, the 21st century has redefined the ways that people interact and share with one another. Today’s teenagers are notorious for posting everything online, from...
View ArticleWhat Privacy Means for the Modern World
Public discourse around privacy often centers on hiding or opting out of public environments, whereas scholars and engineers often focus more on controlling the flow of information. These can both be...
View ArticleControlling our Narratives
This post is in response to Brianna’s blog post, “Redefining Privacy.” To start, I find a lot of Brianna’s points to be extremely accurate and thoughtful. For example, many teens do use social media to...
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