Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore ways to navigate digital spaces while protecting our privacy and exerting agency over our identities and our data. New posts arrive each week from September through December, 2023.
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Domination Technation
The big tech companies dominate the worldwide use of technology, and by proxy, dominate our daily communication with no means to alternatives.
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Surveillance Capitalism: Pitting Money against Privacy
Surveillance Capitalism, pushed by the Tech Giants who benefit from it, erodes everyone’s privacy. What can be done about it?
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Misunderstandings About Privacy and Security
Daniel J. Solove explains the issue with the argument of having nothing to hide when it comes to security and the plurality of privacy.
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Being “Socially Surveilled”. Make It stop !
Controlled Socially Surveillance has a big presence socially throughout the internet. Alot of our conversations with some of our most closest friends and family are public information, yet the internet makes the way we communicate so easy. Kashmir Hill mentions that “Google, Apple, and Facebook provide my rolling Rolodex.” This reminds me of how we…
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Digital Literacies, Writing Technologies, and Education
How do we understand the relationship between writing technologies, digital literacies, and educational opportunities and resources?
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Privacy or Exposure
Privacy on digital networks on tech apps seems to be an outdate thing. Anytime we use a cell phone we are at risk of unwanted exposure.
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Privilege, Privacy, and Security
What do privilege, privacy, and security mean when it comes to digital and other spaces? How do we ensure equity in these spaces?
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Privacy is truly dead
Alice Marwick and Danah Boyd embark on the discussion of privacy within underprivileged, LGBTQ+ and other cultures outside of the US.