Exploring Surveillance Capitalism and Academic Skills
Delve into the world of surveillance capitalism, academic skills, and the importance of maintaining an academic tone in speaking and writing. Explore self-assessment tools, including assessments on online privacy and security. Learn from experts like Mark Weinstein about social media, privacy advocacy, and online communication. Enhance your academic discussion tone and transform your expressions to reflect a more impersonal standpoint. Challenge your views on privacy laws and personal responsibility in the digital age.
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EFE Semester 2 Week 5 Surveillance Capitalism and Academic Skills, continued! Surveillance Capitalism self assess! Academic tone in speaking and writing. (Expect a higher mark in writing if you can demonstrate some control of this). Set up assessment.
Assess Your Browser Cover Your Tracks (eff.org)
National Privacy Test National Privacy Test: Check your online privacy and security IQ
Mark Weinstein Mark Weinstein is one of the USA's leading social media and privacy experts and CEO of MeWe.com. Mark is a founder of social networking, a leading privacy advocate, and author of the award-winning Habitually Great book series. Mark is revolutionizing online communication at MeWe, with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, as a key MeWe Advisor. Mark writes a technology column for Huffington Post, and has been featured on CNN, Fox News, and has been honored as "Privacy By Design Ambassador" by the Canadian Government. MeWe is recognized as the "one to watch" in Webbmedia Group's annual trends report for 2015.
Download >> Week Surveillance Capitalism Week 4 4 Classroom ClassroomMaterials Materials
Academic Discussion Tone Express ideas in personal terms React personally and emotionally to other people s comments Take criticism personally Make personal statements State certainties State opinions as facts
Transformations. I think privacy laws are too strict and everyone should take personal responsibility. Your opini n s just not correct, and I think it s just ridiculous! That s not fair! I disagree with you for many reasons. People don t care enough about their privacy. People use social media because they want to improve their social networks. Companies use it to sell more products.
Express ideas in impersonal terms I think privacy laws are too strict and everyone should take personal responsibility. Many/some people would argue that
React less personally and emotionally to other people s comments Your opini n s just not correct, and I think it s just ridiculous! I think many people would say that s probably not usualy the case. It does seem a bit optimisitc/unrealistic/impractical
Deflect rather than react to criticism That s not fair! I wouldn t put it like that.
Avoid personal statements I disagree with you for many reasons. Many people would argue I think it s difficult to argue that.
Qualify certainties People don t care enough about their privacy. There s a very good argument/case to be made that people don t care enough about their privacy
Avoid stating opinions as facts People use social media because they want to improve their social networks. Companies use it to sell more products. I d argue people use You/We can argue that people use
Conversion Now take the sample essay from Moodle Semester 2 Week 5 My Goal to Pursue a Career Edit sections into a more formal depersonalised academic tone. (We re not pretending this is a perfect example of what you would rewrite, but it contains plenty of material to reorient as academic rather than personal content)
Show and Tell Send some before and after examples of some of techniques you ve applied. Briansmith.comillasx@gmail.co m
Practice academic tone Write up your views/reactions/experiences on Surveillance Captialism from this class the content of Mark Weinstein s video trying out the privacy tests Your take on the ethics, safeguarding needs, future etc. Practice some of the language from week 4 But present them in an academic tone as a formal-sounding essay.
Potential Essay Titles Make your choice Exploring the Pros and Cons of Surveillance Capitalism Mark Weinstein's got it wrong (ie a reply to the TED talk) The Ethics of Surveillance Capitalism Why we need Surveillance Capitalism How we live with Surveillance Capitalism Could we live without Surveillance Capitalism?
Choose your title in class. Come up with a plan of your content and talk it through with a classmate. (No need for you to have the same title) If time permits, you can draft the first paragraph(s) and get some early feedback. Ask them to be critical!
Practicalities Write 250-350 words Submit by 23 February Use template in Moodle. Semester 2 Week 5 Upload (find the same lin template) here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vdp1pjh_BPao0-UDQJFToyK6PMRe8p0g?usp=sharing
