14 March 2010

Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity

Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity:
a compelling talk that challenged the notion that personal information is on a binary spectrum of public or private

Boyd then discussed how different groups of people think about privacy. She says that teenagers are much more conscious about what they have to gain by being in public, whereas adults are more concerned about what they have to lose.

There is another summary of this presentation at ReadWriteWeb
Boyd's own notes for the presentation are also available at her website: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2010/SXSW2010.html