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

Movable type / press expands potential audience for texts

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