{"id":164,"date":"2024-05-07T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru295\/?p=164"},"modified":"2024-05-07T00:06:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T03:06:56","slug":"is-privacy-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru295\/is-privacy-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Privacy Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cYou have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.\u201d<\/p>\n -Scott McNealy<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Each week in the MALAT<\/a> course, we receive various reading materials to help foster a deeper understanding of learning technology and apply critical thinking. Although these readings discuss thoughtful and vital points, one particular observation stood out to me from all the rest. This was not from an author or lecturer but instead from a member of the crowd who spoke during a YouTube video, T<\/em>he Participatory Open: Can we build a Pro-Social, pro-Social web?<\/em><\/a> (Stewart et al., 2019, 10:00).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Phipps (Stewart et al., 2019) posed a question to the crowd in the context of social media: \u201cHave you pulled back participation? Where?\u201d A crowd member mentions a few points, such as envy from family photos and not wanting to share pictures of their child accidentally. However, what caught my attention was the mention of their political views on Donald Trump, whom they did not like. The concern is that their political views may divide their network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I find intriguing about this situation is the paradox it presents. Despite their fear of being ostracized for their political views, this audience member was comfortable enough to voice their opinion in front of strangers, even knowing they were being recorded. This raises the question: Why do they feel more at ease expressing their political views with an unknown audience, including on social media, but refrain from doing so where their close network may disagree? Is the risk of losing a relationship in their network not equal to upsetting strangers in a formal setting? There is more to unpack here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only did this audience member voice an opinion their network and the audience may not agree with, but Phipps also stated he did not agree with Brexit in this forum. There is something to say about the comfort of seeing your audience and engaging with them. It allows you to change the context and convey your message as you see your audience react (Boyd, 2011). Although Boyd disagrees that privacy is now dead  (Garfinkel, 2001), this situation is a strong example of it being dead. Sure, maybe the audience knew the video was being recorded, but did they know the degree to which their remarks would be reviewed? If so, would they have said what they said and have their opinion forever etched in social media? Did these members know that I, Allie Munro, would be writing a blog, analyzing these fleeting comments five years later, and providing the audience with citations to watch them? Would they have made these comments if they knew that I and potentially others would critically analyze their comments? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the answer is yes, and they knew how much this would be analyzed, then why would you pull back from social media? If not, then privacy may be dead, or our understanding of its limitations needs to be better understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These comments on Trump and Brexit may seem harmless, but opinions which are out of context regarding the target audience and time can have drastic implications for the person who speaks them. This is why social media terrifies me, but I must embrace it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Boyd, D. (2011). Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications. <\/em>https:\/\/www.danah.org\/papers\/2010\/SNSasNetworkedPublics.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI. (2024).\u00a0Friends share a secret while people post information on social media<\/em>.\u00a0https:\/\/chat.openai.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purdue University. (2015, July 8<\/em>). Is Privacy Dead? And the Survey Says.<\/em> https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/technology-data\/tamaradull\/2015-07-08\/privacy-dead-and-survey-says<\/a>

Stewart, B., Phipps, L., & Cormier, D. (2019, April 10). The Participatory open: Can we build a Pro-Social, Pro-Societal web? <\/em>[Video]. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1D4tg1FnE_s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.\u201d – Scott McNealy<\/p>\n

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