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

Hi James, I really enjoyed your introduction. The title "Soul Searching" was very creative and it gives a solid background about you and your relationship with your online data identity. Your paragraph on Floridi's take was interesting, but I think you should make a few tweaks to improve the flow. Firstly, I think you should not infer that everyone remembers the past week discussion. Next week when people are reading your statement, they will not remember which discussion you are referring to. Also you mention "quote from one of the readings." You should definitely mention which reading it is from. Finally, you should add captions to your images; I can't tell who they are.

-Taran Deshpande

Hi James, you have the beginnings of a very good post. The first paragraph is a very good introduction and lets the reader know what perspective you are writing the statement from. One thing that you could add to your writing is a section about data brokers. You should talk about what you or Professor Conway were able to find out about yourself from the data brokers. If you did not appear in a data broker search, then this is a very good topic to discuss as to why this happened. You can talk about what you have done so far in live that would lead to you either being in a search or not in a search on a data broker website. I also think you should improve your use of images. The images should help support you writing, also, add captions to your images to help the reader know why they are in the statement.

-Sean Getty