Category Archives: Social Networking
Twitter and Privacy in Social Context
While social-contextual accounts establish reasonable expectations to privacy in public, our hopefulness surrounding these accounts wears thin because the selected scholars exhibit an under theorized conceptualization of how socio-contextual norms are established. Continue reading
Twitter and Statutory Notions of Privacy
Given the norms of digital networks such as Twitter, which emphasis sharing and collective knowledge development, is a control metaphor accompanied by a strong regulatory body well suited for developing a ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ in Cyberspace? I would suggest that they are not, at least not as presented by these texts. Continue reading
Privacy, Dignity, Copyright and Twitter
[Note: this is an early draft of a section of a paper I'm working on titled 'Who Gives a Tweet about Privacy'. Other sections will follow as I draft them.] Unauthorized Capture and Transmission of Data Almost every cellular phone … Continue reading
Facebook Fights Search Engines Over Copyright
The problem with walled gardens, such as Facebook, is that you can be searched whenever you pass through their blue gates. In the course of being searched, undesired data can be refused – data like links to ‘abusive’ sites such as those that facilitate copyright infringement. As of today, Facebook has declared war on the Pirates Bay. Continue reading
