Talk:James Boisvert

Logan Niswander Comment: I think your autobiography is really solid overall. I found the way in which you detailed the progression of your views on privacy throughout the course of this assignment to be especially interesting. The fact that you had never previously searched for information about yourself online made your perspective on this assignment particularly attention grabbing. I was, however, surprised to see that you did not discuss any sort of data broker report on yourself. This may have simply been because you opted out of having a report generated on yourself, but I do think it would be interesting to see what such a report would turn up considering your low profile online. One aspect of your autobiography that stuck out to me was your extensive discussion of in class material. By bringing Floridi into your autobiography and using quotes from him you really managed to tie the theme of everything nicely back to our discussions in class. I also liked the way that you talked about conversations you had with other classmates during discussion. By doing this you further legitimized your argument by showing that fellow students shared a similar perspective with you. One final area that I do believe you could work on is your images. Adding a caption to each image and explaining what they represent and where you found them would help avoid any confusion surrounding their purpose.

Hi James, I think this is a good post and it includes most of the points of the assignment in an easy to read format. One thing I would do is talk less specifically about what you found and more conceptually about the types of things you were able to find. Maybe you could talk about why that data exists or what/if you were trying to accomplish anything by posting that info. The biggest thing that I think would help relate this back to the class and the ethics of technology and specifically your data, would be to talk more about the differences between the “online you” vs “physical you” throughout the post.

-Hayden Macfarlane