Look here.
There is a bit of a row going on about whether or not young people today have enough privacy and whether they SHOULD have more. Will it be dangerous to give them more? have they too much already?
The debate is elaborated upon here in Dana’s local press.
They quote an 18 year old like this:
Kristopher Tate, an 18-year-old Palo Alto resident who started a site where users share photos from around the world at www.zooomr.com, said the risk of exposing one’s personal information was worth the payoff for connecting with the like-minded.
“We’re willing to give up some of our privacy to connect with people easier,” Tate said. “The realization that people can find you online isn’t that threatening to this generation. But there’s a difference between giving up information like what’s on MySpace and the government listening to a phone conversation.”
And also Dana FROM HER BLOG like this:
“Teens today grow up in a state of constant surveillance where there is no privacy,” said Danah Boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, who studies youth culture and online communities. “So they can’t really have an idea of it being lost. The risk of the government or a corporation coming in and looking at their MySpace site is beyond their consideration.”
Why not keep an eye on Dana’s blog? She is using it as a space to air her ideas and she is getting plenty of feedback.
(Don’t you just love the word apophenia?)
Oh yes and just one more thing … dana hihlights here a debate about wikis….and questions the view that online encyclopedias are the only way ahead …as
the essential collection of knowledge, meant to replace school books and other refereed knowledge containers
I have to say I am with Dana on this one. What say you?
Quite interesting stuff.
Comment by Chris Best — May 24, 2006 @ 6:56 pm
What I didnt say on my blog is that my daughter WON’T go onto myspace.com as she isnt keen to have a public space to display her identity but she tells me all her friends do and she sometimes feels left out, as they go on, and she doesnt.
So there are complex issues here about girl gangs and insiders and outsiders and people who are happy to be explosed and people who are not.
Comment by kate — May 25, 2006 @ 12:58 pm