danah boyd | apophenia » Regulating the Use of Social Media Data
I was fascinated to learn that the German government is proposing legislation that would put restrictions on what Internet content employers could use when recruiting.
A decade ago, all of our legal approaches to the Internet focused on what data online companies could collect. This makes sense if you think of the Internet as a broadcast medium. But then along came the mainstreamification of social media and user-generated content. People are sharing content left right and center as part of their daily sociable practices. They’re sharing as if the Internet is a social place, not a professional place. More accurately, they’re sharing in a setting where there’s no clear delineation of social and professional spheres. Since social media became popular, folks have continuously talked about how we need to teach people to not share what might cause them professional consternation. Those warnings haven’t worked. And for good reason. What’s professionally questionable to one may be perfectly | source : www.zephoria.org
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 31/08/10 10:03 | permalien
10 Tips For Aspiring Community Managers
“I’m constantly surprised by how few of those aspiring community managers actually spend time to manage a career blog where they share tips and tricks on what works and what doesn’t,” he said. “Everyone has a LinkedIn, Facebook (Facebook) or Twitter account, but career blogs are few and far in between. Build a brand for yourself with your blog before you actually get paid to manage one.” | source : mashable.com
Recommandé parPhilippe Martin le 23/08/10 23:12 | permalien
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time! | source : www.eff.org
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 23/08/10 10:28 | permalien
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses based on what seemed reasonable to me.
I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. | source : mattmckeon.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 23/08/10 10:27 | permalien
Confusing *a* public with *the* public « BuzzMachine
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg seem to assume that once something is public, it’s public. They confused sharing with publishing. They conflate the public sphere with the making of a public. That is, when I blog something, I am publishing it to the world for anyone and everyone to see: the more the better, is the assumption. But when I put something on Facebook my assumption had been that I was sharing it just with the public I created and control there. That public is private. Therein lies the confusion. Making that public public is what disturbs people. It robs them of their sense of control—and their actual control—of what they were sharing and with whom (no matter how many preferences we can set). On top of that, collecting our actions elsewhere on the net—our browsing and our likes—and making that public, too, through Facebook, disturbed people even more. Where does it end? | source : www.buzzmachine.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 22/08/10 09:46 | permalien
danah boyd | apophenia » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
With this backdrop in mind, I want to talk about a concept that Kirkpatrick suggests is core to Facebook: “radical transparency.” In short, Kirkpatrick argues that Zuckerberg believes that people will be better off if they make themselves transparent. Not only that, society will be better off. (We’ll ignore the fact that Facebook’s purse strings may be better off too.) My encounters with Zuckerberg lead me to believe that he genuinely believes this, he genuinely believes that society will be better off if people make themselves transparent. And given his trajectory, he probably believes that more and more people want to expose themselves. Silicon Valley is filled with people engaged in self-branding, making a name for themselves by being exhibitionists. | source : www.zephoria.org
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 22/08/10 08:04 | permalien
Facebook: Nowhere to hide | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
members can now have their exact whereabouts disclosed to others. If you are, say, browsing the racks at Topshop or bunking off college for the afternoon, fellow members will know. Facebook executives point out that users opt into this service, but after that it is presumed their location will be shared with others in their network. And unlike "location data" sites such as Foursquare, this is not a service original customers have chosen for themselves – rather, it has been foisted on them. Besides, as users know, mortgage application forms often take less time and trouble to fill out than Facebook's privacy settings. The company will also say that this is information shared among friends – but "friends" on Facebook are rather more loosely defined than in real life, often including the fuzziest of acquaintances, the fuzzy acquaintances of those acquaintances and random networks. And even those with a tiny circle of online friends are susceptible to having their location pasted | source : www.guardian.co.uk
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 22/08/10 07:48 | permalien
Les jeunes quittent Facebook - blog d'agence 08/2010
diverses enquêtent tendraient à montrer qu'aux Etats-Unis les jeunes quittent Facebook depuis Avril 2010 en masse, non pas à cause de ses problèmes de "privacy" mais parce que ce réseau est "ennuyeux !" (où vont-ils alors ?) | source : www.onprenduncafe.com
Recommandé parelectropublication le 15/08/10 18:25 | permalien
How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream
After having a presence on Facebook for more than two years, NPR decided to take a closer look at its more than 1 million Facebook fans with a survey. Andy Carvin, senior strategist at NPR, said he had a certain hypotheses, including one that stemmed from his own reliance on his Twitter and Facebook friends for news: Do people really use their social network to get news? After more than 40,000 responses to the survey, 74.6% said that Facebook was a major way in which they received news and information from NPR, and 72.3% said they “expect” their friends to share links to interesting information and news stories with them online. “It’s not that people have lost interest in the news, it’s that they have shifted platforms,” Carvin said. | source : mashable.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 10/08/10 20:36 | permalien