http://www.huwy.eu/uk HUWY: Young people’s experience and advice on Internet Policies Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:58:18 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.huwy.eu/uk/youth-groups/lauras-friends/using-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-67 timdavies Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:58:18 +0000 http://www.huwy.eu/uk/?page_id=1349#comment-67 The challenge with coming to a view on social network sites is that people use them in many different ways. Often people are not so much 'broadcasting' information - as sharing information to an 'imagined audience'. That is, when someone updates their Facebook status at the cinema, they may end up sharing the information that they are there with 250 people, but the message was really meant for one or two particular people - perhaps to send out a positive message ('hey, come join us!') or perhaps as a move in an ongoing conversation ('Now I've watched this film too that we were talking about'). There are messages you might not direct /at/ a particular person, but which you would like them to be aware of. As a result people are 'hiding in plain sight' as danah boyd puts it: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/08/23/social-steganography-learning-to-hide-in-plain-sight.html There are, of course, many things to be challenged about the role Facebook has and the way it works. Users need better critical skills to make sense of it; and the platform needs to be kept in check. But perhaps we do that best when we look really in depth at how people use the sites, what meaning they have for them, and then at thinking about how this is positive and negative... http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/08/23/social-steganography-learning-to-hide-in-plain-sight.html There are, of course, many things to be challenged about the role Facebook has and the way it works. Users need better critical skills to make sense of it; and the platform needs to be kept in check. But perhaps we do that best when we look really in depth at how people use the sites, what meaning they have for them, and then at thinking about how this is positive and negative...]]> http://www.huwy.eu/uk/news-blog/2010/08/26/have-your-say-at-the-igf/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Tweets that mention Have your say at the IGF « HUWY United Kingdom -- Topsy.com Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:18:19 +0000 http://www.huwy.eu/uk/?p=1302#comment-66 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by CSI Edinburgh Napier, Ella Taylor-Smith and HUWY EU, HuWY UK. 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