Fred Stutzman gave an interesting talk this morning at the Virtual Citizenship Symposium about facebook and social activism. He talked a lot about activism within Facebook about facebook (e.g. groups against the news feed), much of which revolves around privacy. How much privacy can one expect these days, with technologies like Beacon and Google, and to what extent is privacy contextual. The talk brings up a lot of questions for me regarding professional and personal life, the boundaries between teacher, student, colleague, friend acquaintance. The notion of “social surveillance” is also interesting, the way we monitor each other via social networking sites. I will definitely have more reflections on these issues later, and I will try to post about the afternoon sessions also.
