There’s three new blogs in the Higher Ed Marketing links section below. Go check them out!
University Web Marketing and Usability
Mistaken Goal (actually a Student Affairs and technology blog–very interesting)
Added 12/8: U Marketing Guru
Added 12/11: Intermedia (PR & New Media)
I’ve also got my student work crew in a fishbowl for you. Watch them on the Web Crew Cam.
There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.
Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…
December 8th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
where’s the web crew cam?
December 8th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
never mind- it’s in the sidebar, got it.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
Thank you very much for including me in your list, I will try to make it worth it :-)