Polyglot Incarnate |
A transplant of my now dying blog on blogger, but nothing personal, just course related. |
We’ve all seen them: the Republican candidate for an Ohio county treasurer, Rebecca Black’s Friday, Alex Reads Twilight, the Onion (you should go look-up the one about monkey stab-wounds) …
This is an interesting article that exposes the other side to going viral. Do you think Rebecca Black has a good self-esteem because of her video? Probably not, but she’s filthy rich now. Anyway, the article talks specifically about public surveillance video archives being hacked and then sometimes uploaded to the internet, and the effect this has on those people’s lives. Although, it is sometimes arguable as to whether these people should have been doing the things they were in public in the first place. So this subject can be tied to privacy rights and ethics, which are interesting topics to explore since the definitions are still in flux in our society today.
This ties in to the results of the Patriot Act and the intense increase in the invasion of our privacy post 9/11.
Anyway, food for thought.
Signing off-
Alice
