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"This study examined the impact of three dimensions of digital literacy on privacy-related online behaviors: (a) familiarity with technical aspects of the Internet, (b) awareness of common institutional practices, and (c) understanding of current privacy policy.However, the findings were mixed when accounting for the interaction between knowledge and Internet experiences. There were limitations on the extents of knowledge and action related to personalized information. Furthermore, those limitations divided with sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, income, and education."

"This study examined the impact of three dimensions of digital literacy on privacy-related online behaviors: (a) familiarity with technical aspects of the Internet, (b) awareness of common institutional practices, and (c) understanding of current privacy policy.However, the findings were mixed when accounting for the interaction between knowledge and Internet experiences. There were limitations on the extents of knowledge and action related to personalized information. Furthermore, those limitations divided with sociodemographic characteristics such as age, gender, income, and education."

Concerns about the decline in personal privacy have long troubled citizens, scholars and politicians. This is a list of recent academic research studies and reports that address issues relating to digital privacy.

Interesting article: a journalist unmasks one of the biggest trolls on the web, an editor in Reddit that use the anonimity to cover his identity. What happens when he is unmasked?.

Esta presentación de principios del "mundo abierto" me parece muy importante para contextualizar el objeto de estudio de este curso. Don Tapscott nos aporta una óptica clara de los fundamentos de este apasionante mundo.

"This article argues for a model of university-level (graduate and undergraduate) publishing education that builds upon a vocational self-identification of incoming students, nurtures a community of practice and professional discourse, and in doing so generates and renews the very culture of publishing. In times of transition and disruption, this is a role uniquely suited to the university, where an environment of collaborative research, development, and innovation can be cultivated. "

Kevin: Muchas gracias por la referencia. Es interesante no solo el artículo que mencionas sino varios de los textos del número monográfico, http://tinyurl.com/nvoq8xq. Dear Kevin: Thank you very much for the info. Interestingly, not only the article but several of the texts of special issue.

Argues that tracking provides revenue for companies and facilitates the availability and development of free web services, like Google. Read as the opposing viewpoint to The Dangers of Web Tracking - The Great Privacy Debate - WSJ.

Discusses the risks of being tracked through our Internet activity and location tracking devices. Risks include financial fraud, stalking, manipulation by advertisers, tracking our whereabouts, devaluation of privacy as a fundamental right. Read as the opposing viewpoint to Why Online Tracking Isn't Bad - The Great Privacy Debate - WSJ.

In my opinion we should do some extra careful mostly when it comes to financial matter, we should not just type in the confidential information even if it is most respected site, because bad hackers are every when, we do not know if they are just lurking around waiting for us.

Interesting article! I think it´s important to sort out what privacy really means in different Internet contexts. There are many theories and interpretations. Private users, sellers and marketers are examples of groups who have many different agendas and interests. Privacy and how it is used on Internet, must be studied from both local and global perspectives as I see it. What type of information does not the private user know that other actors use for selling and marketing and online services. How can a clearer cooperation be done to not cross the lines for online privacy?

Importante iniciativa que promueve el conocimiento abierto

A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few. A world where data frees us - to make informed choices about how we live, what we buy and who gets our vote. A world where information and insights are accessible - and apparent - to everyone.

Knowledge is power and it is for everyone to take.

Importante iniciativa del Banco Mundial en el área de interés del presente curso

"It is an irony of the digital age that at a time when we are used to having easy access to seemingly endless information and knowledge, so much of it is disappearing into a digital black hole. For 450 years the concept of legal deposit has helped to preserve the nation's intellectual record.| There is this aspect of disappearing data as well.

See my bookmark post 'Academic citation practices ...' for some geeky stuff on the reference / citation issues.

Jacynthe, you are welcome, and Phillip, many thanks!

Publish or register datasets, create and manage groups and communities. Datahub, the free, powerful data management platform from the Open Knowledge Foundation, based on the CKAN data management system.

"To what extent is it possible - or desirable - to disengage from the growing cultural database? How do surveillance and "sousveillance" play a role in the policing of individuals by institutions, and vice versa? Can we disentangle the issues surrounding localized record keeping from globalized control over the archives? In this article, we discuss a range of cultural practices, epistemological regimes and intellectual discourses that have emerged to cope with these questions, and we assess the strategic options for communitarian and individual agency in an era we describe as "the end of forgetting."* I included this link as the article has an excellent model to describe the different strategic responses of agency to the openness of data and the resultant privacy issues.

George Siemens, President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research, takes a more jaundiced view of MOOCS. While acknowledging the benefits he points out some of the more negative impacts, particularly focusing on the concept of 'opennesss'

Este vídeo ayuda a entender un poco más, lo que significa el la cultura de acceso abierto

As I am a visual learner, this is a great little snapshot of what open knowledge is like. Since I like to bake as well, the cake metaphor was a nice touch.

Este conocimiento forma parte integral de un sistema cultural que combina la lengua, los sistemas de clasificación, las prácticas de utilización de recursos, las interacciones sociales, los rituales y la espiritualidad.

Referente al tema de privacidad. Este es un breve articulo sobre la reforma de telecomunicaciones aprobada recientemente en Mexico (10 de junio de 2013). Al igual que ofrece varias ventajas para la poblacion en materia de telecomunicaciones, las principales desventajas se relacionan con la privacidad de los usuarios.