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Into Travelogue #2 / Privacy, Google & Panopticon 2.0
Travelogue #2, first week: Come up with a subject for your second log–your own free-formed New Media Travelogue. This time you will research a media environment of your choosing. It can be a web...
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Twitter: Geotagging and Local Trends
Last week, Twitter announced that it would soon enable its users to follow “Local Trends.” What does these mean exactly? Users will have the option to leave Trends at the default worldwide setting...
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I will try to follow Alexandra’s format from last week. This week’s assignment included: “Scroogled” by Cory Doctorow, “Facebook’s Move Ain’t About Changes in Privacy Norms” by Danah Boyd, “Search Me”...
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Schoolyard Foursquare or an Elusive Treasure Hunt? Oh, What to do?
GPS Satellite Ten years ago, on May 1, 2000, the ability to track one’s self was revolutionized when the government had the feature Selective Availability removed from the Global Positioning System...
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Travelogue 2: Facebook vs MySpace! Updated 2/7/10
I have been reading a lot of press on social communities recently because I take a very cautionary step when engaging socially on Facebook. It could just be paranoia or simply wanting to be too private...
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Stalker!
Many of you may have heard of a website called Gawker. Gawker is an NYC-based blog that is focused primarily on media and celebrity news/gossip. Gawker has a feature called Gawker Stalker – which as...
View ArticleWhat are the privacy implications of geotagging on Twitter?
What are the privacy implications of enabling geotagging on your Twitter account? In November of 2009, Twitter added a feature which enabled users to selectively “geotag” their tweets with their exact...
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How others see your Facebook Profile
Hi class, This is not a required post, but a public service announcement! I know Mushon said in class this week that he was looking for how to see how your profile looks to others. I was just adjusting...
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Who Is At Risk from Geotagged Tweets?
After doing some more research, the main problem that I see with geotagging is that it doesn’t just locate information but it locates people. Although I understand the benefits of enabling it,...
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Stalker map no more?
So, no matter where I look, I can only find archived images of the stalker map (see above). The link that is in archived articles is gawker.com/stalker – but when I go there, it redirects to...
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Gawker Stalker map conclusion
So. I have been digging and I will share with the class what I’ve found. Thanks to archive.org, a site that basically archives the entire internet and lets you search in the “wayback” machine, I now...
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Twitter and Geotagging: The Conclusion
This travalogue began several weeks ago with a simple question: Should I enable geotagging on my personal Twitter account? In my research about what some of the risks could be for users who did enable...
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Mini Poll
Hi All – I decided to post a Mini Poll if you don’t mind answering it.. I figure since we are all pretty educated on SNSes.. This group would be a good sampling to test on.. Also, if you don’t mind in...
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Concluding Post – How much *TIME SPENT ON*?
I began this journey by first analyzing the beginning of both Social Networking Websites.. At first I was skeptical as to where my topic would be bring me but now I realize how much of a big part of...
View ArticleChat Roulette!
Have any of you heard about this new Chatroulette phenomenon yet? I keep reading articles on it and hearing people talk about it. Thought I’d share the new chat forum with you guys, in case you haven’t...
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Channeled my anger at Google Buzz into a post: #buzzoff
Please RT! On February 9th Google have unvailed Google Buzz, a service that involuntarily transforms every Gmail user’s private contact list into a public social network. While Google has suffered from...
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New developments in the “WebcamGate”
Last Thursday, two IT employees involved in the Harriton High School webcam scandal were placed on temporary leave while the investigations into the case continue. However, their lawyers claim that the...
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WebcamGate: general state of (dis-)TRUST
The webcam school spying scandal that broke in mid-February was a bombastic scoop. It offered excellent material for sensationalist media coverage, nourished paranoiac fears, and created a heated...
View ArticleMicah Sifry Updates “Social Networking, New Governing”
This was his e-mail back to me (as I reminder I had forwarded him Juliette’s question about whether or not a year has changed whether or not Facebook was issuing a new kind of governing). So here’s his...
View ArticleMobile Donations – Concluding Post
1. Please text MONKEY to 89183 for a brief summary via 3 Text Messages to your mobile phone! OR 2. Listen to the podcast and view the accompanied slides. References: Mobile Active Org American Red...
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