Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Privacy & Confidentiality
When new media was still in it's infant ages, the internet was not used to the capacity that it is used to today. Before new media and the internet, interactions were simple. Interactions consisted of phone calls and face the face interactions. Everything was personal and there was very little that could be concealed. Today with new media, we have the internet where anything that is posted online becomes public. By posting photos and information on to social networking platforms such as Facebook, information becomes public. Furthermore, new media provides anonymity and privacy as well. While things that you share online become publicly accessible information, when interacting with others online while using false information or playing multiplayer games, your identity is usually kept a secret and you maintain your privacy from the other users.
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Hey James,
ReplyDeleteWow that's a great point! A lot of the times we think that the internet is stealing away our privacy but there are cases where that isn't true!
There has been events where new media doesnt provide anonymity and privacy to the extent of the user. With higher security in new media its easier to hack into. Privacy is considered exaggerated, experts make a big deal about it, people don’t care about being monitored or data being collected, and the average individual is unaffected by privacy concern. This is simply not the case. Snappening, a third party website called snapsaved has taken responsibility for leaking several thousands of photos and videos that been conceived through the messaging app, snapchat.
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