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In today’s fast changing world, what social media is popular among adolescents can shift quickly. TikTok’s sudden rise<\/a> in popularity has many looking carefully at what the app is, its terms of service, privacy policy, and its algorithms. Our team has chosen to examine TikTok as a learning tool in the classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In our team of Stephanie, Angela and London, half of us had a TikTok account and half didn’t. Members who were new to the app were tasked to record their experiences and feelings using this technology for the first time. For myself who had been a holdout to adopting this technology, finally signing up was easy and quick. I was immediately presented with the terms of service<\/a> (TOS) and privacy policy<\/a> (PP) which I decided to review carefully. Next, there was a short orientation followed by a request to allow notifications. All of these steps seemed very standard for a social media app. The issue that I became interested in after downloading the app and listening to Dr. Bonnie Stewart’s<\/a> presentation was whether or not social media apps can be used ethically in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two areas that had caught my attention and surprised me were the TOS and PP. First, in the TOS, consent was required in the US for those under 18 years of age and a waiver for future class action suits was included. Reading further it became clear that nothing created in the app was proprietary when it came to user generated content. Anything that is posted to the site including original music is given away unconditionally, irrevocably, non exclusively, royalty free, fully transferable to third parties in perpetuity. Once again not surprising in an app where the user is the product. The surprise was how far the terms of service went. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Second, the privacy policy was divided into two sections: behavioral and technical data. Behavioral data includes profile info, what apps and websites you visit and download and purchase. Technical data included much much more and spanned multiple devices which included everything from your battery state to keystroke patterns and\/or rhythms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my research I want to explore whether or not social media can be used ethically in the classroom? I am questioning the scope of my research and overarching question. Is it possible to understand social medias secret algorithm<\/a>s? In addition, there is very little literature <\/a>about the use of social media use in the classroom. I look forward to your insights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s fast changing world, what social media is popular among adolescents can shift quickly. TikTok’s sudden rise in popularity has many looking carefully at what the app is, its terms of service, privacy policy, and its algorithms. Our team has chosen to examine TikTok as a learning tool in the classroom. In our team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0223\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}