Safety, security, & privacy

Before we begin our more formal exploration of digital cultures and social networking/media in education, we need to address issues and concerns related to safety, security, and privacy. Let’s start with some context and framing:

• danah boyd, past and present views:

• NPR’s All Things Considered with Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen — executives at Google — on the topic of privacy and security in the digital age
• How Much Does Social Media Know About You (infographic)
• How Facebook stumbled into India’s fight for net neutrality (2015) and India adopts “world’s strongest” net neutrality norms (2018)
• Silence and respect podcast
• How to protect your privacy and remove data from online services (a helpful how-to)
• Erasing yourself from the Internet is nearly impossible. But here’s how you can try. (Washington Post, 2017…from Amanda’s blog post)

As you think about your own use of social networking and media tools and platforms, what are your thoughts about the issues of safety, security, and privacy? What are your concerns? What are your ideas for addressing them in ways that still allow you to take advantage of the value of social networking and media?

Although you are welcome to add a comment below, I recommend you start a new blog post*. [I provide a brief how-to walk through on our activity page in Canvas. If you are looking for more, please see resources I recommend via my Joni’s Ideas & Resources page on this site.]

*Remember, you are now authors of this site, so you may add pages, blog posts, etc. I recommend starting a new blog post so you may begin working with the features and functionality of blogging with WordPress. At this point you should have received an automatically generated email from the WordPress site with your username and password; if you haven’t received an email, please check your Junk/Spam folder, but if it’s not there message me and I will reset your password and sent it to you manually.:-)