Post on 22-May-2015
Free Writing (6/7)
• What’s on your mind? Write for five minutes.
Belief: Individuals are ultimately responsible for
their conduct.• Following questions:–What is responsible online conduct?
–What do we do about those who act irresponsibly?
Two court cases with conflicting rulings
• Both cases involve students in Pennsylvania who created fake MySpace pages about their principals
• Both students were suspended and challenged their suspensions in court
• 3rd circuit court judges issued conflicting rulings on the same day
• Full court met yesterday (6/3) to resolve
1st Amendment law for
students• Writer’s Notebook: “Free Speech?” (6/4)
• Take notes on presentation
• Double-entry journal on article “Online Venom” (multiple entries)
• Exit ticket: TBA
Exit ticket
• What’s your opinion? Should schools have the right to discipline students in situations like those described in the article?
http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/11/22/does-the-internet-help-cartoon/
We’re in the middle of a communication revolution.
Hand-copied texts were expensive and slow to
produce
High-speed printing presses make cheap texts
accessible
Desktop publishing makes professional-type tools accessible to amateurs
Internet makes widespread distribution possible for
little / no cost to publisher
Believe or Doubt (6/7)
It’s okay to have a different personality online than you do in the physical world.
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me under the cover of clothingThey have departed for another city.
--Pablo Neruda, “We Are Many”
What are the + / -effects of “dual identities”
online?Positives Negatives
Facebook changed its default privacy settings
(again) in April
Complicated privacy settings
NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html?ref=personaltech
Anger from “digerati”“Facebook thinks that it’s just weirdo tech elites like me
who are p-----d off. They’re standing firm and trying to justify why what they’re doing is good for everyone. Their
attitude has triggered the panic button amongst regulators and all sorts of regulators are starting to sniff around…”
dana boyd, 14 May
if you’re not angry / you’re just stupid / or you don’t care
- Ani Difranco, Out of Range
New privacy settings structure released on May
26
What does Mark Zuckerberg think about
privacy?• “You have one identity,” he emphasized three times in a single interview with David Kirkpatrick in his book, “The Facebook Effect.” “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” He adds: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
Digital Footprint Assignment
• Moodle