Prof. Script Priv&Tech

Essay 3 –Technology and Privacy

Instructions:  Privacy is an intensely, perhaps uniquely, personal value. The word stems from a Latin root, "privare," which meant "to separate." To want privacy is to want to be separate, to be individual.  Using 3 or more of our reading and/or videos from the list below, explain what privacy means when we venture online. How have our definitions of and expectations for privacy been influenced by the emergence of Web 2.0? Is privacy dead? Why does it matter? 

This essay should be at least 650 words in length, not including your title page or reference list.  Must have a minimum of 4 references with traceable links including in-text citations.

Articles and Videos:

· Google and Privacy: Is it Time to Give Up? Linton Weeks, (2012).  http://www.npr.org/2012/02/29/147643243/google-wins-hes-giving-up-on-privacy

· Why Should I Care about Digital Privacy? Bob Sullivan, (2011).  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41995926/ns/technology_and_science/t/why-should-i-care-about-digital-privacy/#.URir8Wf6aaN

· “Say Everything: Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy,” Emily Nussbaum  http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/

· The Skinner Box and Privacy Online

“The Skinner Box and Privacy Online,” Cory Doctorow: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxObserver-Cory-Doctorow (12:27 min.)

· Social Media Video 2013

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Duration: (3:51)

User: socialnomics09 - Added: 11/7/12

“Social Media, 2013” Erik Qualman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCfFcchw1w (3:51 min.)