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Blogging offers then the type of solution to the private/public dichotomy that Arendt dreads. It does not release the passion of private life into the public, but deprives the private of its fascination and invests the public with a continuous repetition of identical personal experiences. -
1voteThe latest generation of Web sites make a virtue of openness at the expense of traditional notions of privacy.Mena Trott, who developed Movable Type, a software system for publishing blogs, says "control" is a better word than "privacy" for defining oneself in different situations on the Web.
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1voteWhen Krista-Lee Malone, a student at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, did a study of the impact of voice chat on online worlds, women all told her they were treated differently once other players could hear their voices. Yet in a study of WoW, those who used text-only chat experienced "drops in trust and happiness" amongst their fellow players; those who used voice chat did not.
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1votePsych prof Pennebaker says bloggers, who write for an audience, probably won't engage in the same level of emotional processing as they would if writing just for themselves... "More & more people believe they are entitled to behave according to their own values & not the norms prevailing in society," Aaron Ben-Ze'ev says. That means there is less of a need to keep a protected private self..."
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1voteLast week I joined Facebook, the social network for students that opened its doors last fall to anyone with an e-mail address. The decision made it possible for parents like me to peek at our children in their online lair.Professor Wesch reminded me that what Facebook’s younger users really are doing is exploring their identities, which they may not want to parade in front of their parents.
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1voteBly Lauritano-Werner is a high school student with an online journal. Her mother reads the journal -- but Bly thinks she shouldn't. Bly works with Blunt Radio in Maine. This piece came to us from Youth Radio.
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1voteGraduate and undergraduate students will present their work at a day-long conference investigating identity, identification, privacy and anonymity through various disciplinary lenses. Participants will be selected through a fully peer-reviewed process and presentations from students from around the world are anticipated.
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1voteNot only do the new social networking sites facilitate and widely disseminate teenage indiscretions, they help seal them in Internet amber. Ill-advised Internet postings are like a bad tattoo with little hope of laser removal. The article also discusses predators, cyber-bullying, and the unintended, high-stakes audiences who may view teens' MySpace pages.
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1voteThe Internet has allowed us to take the most "intimate" thoughts and ideas and perform them in a public before witnesses. This makes real every neurosis and stupid act - stuff that might simply have slipped away before. It makes it possible to be heard. But at the same time, when you know you're going to be heard, you have to think twice. Do you really want that fleeting thought to be that real, to be that present for collective memory?
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1voteRochelle Gurstein, author of "The Repeal of Reticence," a book about the erosion of privacy in the US, said the blogs seem to reflect an "unprecedented change" in teenagers' sense of modesty. Many young bloggers say they don't think people other than friends are reading their journals. Some contend that the Internet is a safer place for their inner thoughts than a book that can be found by parents
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