Comments on: How social media blurs the line between public and private

By: September Class Schedule « Journalism 10 Fall 2010

September Class Schedule « Journalism 10 Fall 2010 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:08:46 +0000

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Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:08:54 +0000

[...] audience wasn’t appealing. Actually, the idea rather terrified me. Correction: It still does. The blurring of public with private in the online world is a very real [...]

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By: Jay Heiser

Jay Heiser — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:51:42 +0000

New social norms emerge over time when new contexts make the old norms obsolete. The Internet is creating new social contexts at a rate unprecedented in human experience, so its no wonder that surprisingly uncomfortable things happen. It isn’t just social networking sites; norms for acceptable and anticipatable behavior for retail, business to business, and advertising are still evolving as the technically-enabled infrastructure keeps offering new possibilities.

So how long does it take for a general understanding to emerge as to what is acceptable, and what activities are considered so inappropriate that they result in social isolation, retaliation, or even a court room action?

Social networking sites are largely populated by people who for the most part haven’t fully settled on their behavioral norms for the physical world–I don’t know if that is destabilizing, or if it provides useful flexibility in accommodating new contexts of interaction. I wonder if the next generation of social networkers will be open to learning from the negative experiences of the current generation–or if those experiences will even have relevancy in 5-20 years.

By: Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:31:19 +0000

Thanks for the comment Mark. This is a topic that educators like ourselves could raise in the classroom to get the debate started.

By: mark hamilton

mark hamilton — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:04:19 +0000

I think the issue of media rethinking the concept of privacy is probably more important than “relying” on the net users to think deeply about ideas of privacy that may no longer be relevant.