Monday, March 8, 2010

Social & Ethical Issues; Presentations

FACEBOOK


Privacy
  • you can choose in your account settings who can see what

  • some applications require you to to 'Allow' your information to be leaked into foreign systems

  • instructs users how to change new privacy settings; update all settings

Security

  • Only you can alter the information on you profile and your settings

Data Quality

  • Companies have facebook sites, which can used a way of getting feedback from users and advertise products

Health & Safety

  • Cyber bullying
  • Peer Pressure

Copyright Laws

  • refer to the copying of images, videos and music
  • facebook policy on intellectual property; breaches of copyright can be reported to facebook

YOUTUBE

Privacy

  • If it's on youtube anyone can see it; more than likely it is exposed to the whole world
  • You can hide certain personal information

Security of data and info

  • People could pretend to be you and upload videos that breach the terms of Youtube, thereby putting the blame on you for THEIR wrongdoing

Accuracy of data and info

  • It is not an open system, you can decide what content is judged as inappropriate and it can be removed
  • breaching copyright

Changing nature of work

  • People become recognised because of hits on videos uploaded on youtube; youtube allows for promotion
  • Bypassing the process of connections and meeting people to become famous, by straight away facing the audience via youtube

Copyright Laws

  • Videos that don't show any copyright authority are removed immediately
  • Copyright organisations are involved in monitoring videos

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