Skip to main content

Home/ EmergingSocialSoftware/ Group items tagged privacy

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Deanya Lattimore

Vancouver Police Twitter a day of activity - 0 views

www.ctv.ca/...ancouver-police-twitter-101209

twitter professional law-enforcement police

shared by Deanya Lattimore on 10 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Deanya Lattimore on 10 Dec 10
     
    Vancouver police twitter a day in the life. CTV.ca News Staff Date: Thu. Dec. 9 2010 10:29 PM ET From the mundane to the compelling, the Vancouver Police Department posted every call they received to Twitter on Thursday, in a plan that is equally about social networking as it is about crime prevention. Sample tweets included: "Man in custody after an attempted theft of beer from a loading truck," and "police are looking for an elderly man who wandered away from his care home." While officers took out personal information that may have violated privacy protocols, the stream of short entries read like the daily diary of a police department. The stream was for a 24-hour period and won't be continued on Friday. Vancouver police say that the stream is a chance to educate people on the volume of calls they get each day, and also to publicize the launch of the force's Twitter profile, which they believe will become a crucial link to the community. "We're going to keep people much more updated with what the Vancouver police is doing," said Const. Anne Longley Thursday. While the gambit proved effective (some 2,300 people began following the VPD by Thursday evening), it didn't always run like clockwork. "Sorry for the last typo's ... I think I need a break soon!" read one tweet. But the micro-blog entries also show potential for the future. In one entry, the VDP wrote: "Report of a suspicious person checking out a building and property. Police looking for him now. Call 9-1-1 if you see suspicious activity!" Considering the instant and far-reaching applications of the web, a Twitter profile could become a savvy crime-fighting tool in the future. Vancouver isn't the only police force in the country to launch a Twitter profile; most departments in Canada already have them. A media expert said that the force's decision to get on Twitter is savvy, given the increasing importance of communicating online. Twitter recently announced that it has 145 million users -- not bad consideri
Rebecca Davis

"Living and Learning with Social Media" - 0 views

www.danah.org/...PennState2009.html

socialmedia Facebook youth danahboyd

shared by Rebecca Davis on 05 May 09 - Cached
  • Today's teens are still more interested in their friends than their lessons. They're still resistant to power and authority at variable levels. They still gossip, bully, flirt, joke around, and hang out. The underlying dynamics are fairly consistent. That said, technology is inflecting these practices in unique ways. And my goal here today is to talk about these inflection points.
  • They use these sites to connect to people that they already know from school, church, activities, summer camp, etc.
  • One of the most problematic mistakes adults make when trying to make sense of social network sites is to presume that kids interact on these sites just like they do
  • ...37 more annotations...
  • Teens are using this space as a social hangout with their pre-existing network.
  • Profiles
  • Think of the profile as a digital body
  • This is about showing off to known individuals
  • self-expression for friends
  • Friends
  • it's socially rude not to
  • Friends is as intended audience
  • Comments
  • process of social grooming
  • Teens know how to have deeper conversations - this just isn't where those necessarily happen.
  • New Feed
  • according to Pew, the median age of the Twitterverse is 31
  • social pressure to be where your friends are
  • How are these environments similar or different to other public spaces?
  • Persistence
  • What you say sticks around
  • Replicability
  • crux of rumor-spreading
  • bullying
  • Searchability
  • when trying to avoid those who hold power over you, it may be less than ideal
  • Scalability
  • spiral out of control
  • (de)locatability
  • simultaneously more and less connected to physical space
  • implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics
  • Invisible Audiences
  • lurkers
  • we are having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
  • Collapsed Contexts
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
  • Blurring of Public and Private.
  • youth see privacy in terms of control - control of space, control of information, control of trust
  • reproduction of socio-economic status and class divisions in digital worlds.
  • Teens who use MySpace can't communicate with those on Facebook and vice-versa. So if you don't participate, you're written out of the story. This means that divisions are re-inforced. Forget all of the rhetoric about how the Internet is the great equalizer - it's the great reproducer of inequality.
  • For all of the attention paid to "digital natives" it's important to realize that most teens are engaging with social media without any deep understanding of the underlying dynamics or structure. Just because they understand how to use the technology doesn't mean that they understand the information ecology that surrounds it. Most teens don't have the scaffolding for thinking about their information practices.
1 - 5 of 5
Showing 20▼ items per page