Talk:Emma Huez
Danny G's Comments
Emma, thank you for your elaborate and intriguing post. I can understand how your last name, also being the name of a destination, may skew the results of searching your online identity. While this may act as a hinderance, it could also be a source of informational friction for searching your identity, and could help preserve your online anonymity. I can definitely empathize with the idea of twitter acting as a time machine. I also look at my old tweets from time to time, and cringe. Maybe this speaks to the impulsive nature of twitter as a social media platform, in that we immediately post what we think at that moment without reflection or thinking of its implications. Additionally, I agree how data brokers are designed to act as if they spreading "dirt" or confidential information that could potentially incriminate people that are being searched. The market for data brokers seems to be set up as a way to learn information about individuals that could change the searcher's opinion about them, most likely for the worst.
While I thought your post was interesting, and enjoyed learning your experience of searching your online profile, perhaps it would have been beneficial to have included more ideas and theories about ICT ethics and values, that we've learned throughout the semester. How confidential do you feel your online data is? Did your search uncover any areas where your online profile did not match your real online profile? How authentic is your online data, and do you feel it discloses enough information while also preserving your anonymity?
Andrew Guise
Great article! I thought you did a nice job of explaining your thoughts as you gave an overview of your findings. I found your article to be highly personal and provided a great look into your true feelings as you progressed through your research. I also found the way you connected your research to the readings to be well done. You took some key ideas from the readings and provided solid analysis based on what you found while searching for your data identity. Some suggestions to help improve your article would be to provide some further clarification on how you might change your online presence after completing this assignment, and what kinds of steps can be taken to help improve not only your own but others' privacy on the internet. Adding your personal thoughts on how privacy can be maintained, even in our highly online world, would add a nice second dimension that would help round out your post. Also, adding some further analysis on the intersection between Floridi and Haimson's ideas would help strengthen your post as well. Does it matter if you are authentic online or not since your privacy is compromised regardless? Adding discussion on a question like this would help tie your ideas together well, in my opinion.
