[Air-L] Facebook posts used to fire people in Australia

[Michael Zimmer]

Re: taking "seemingly private Facebook chatter" "out of context", see  
thoughts by me and others:

Facebook Changes Cause Rift in Flow of Personal Information (Michael  
Zimmer)
<http://michaelzimmer.org/2006/09/06/facebook-changes-cause-rift-in-flow-of-personal-information/ 
 >

More on Facebook and the Contextual Integrity of Personal Information  
Flows (Michael Zimmer)
<http://michaelzimmer.org/2006/09/08/more-on-facebook-and-the-contextual-integrity-of-personal-information-flows/ 
 >

Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Facebook and  
elsewhere) (danah boyd)
<http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/10/22/putting_privacy.html 
 >

How Facebook Broke its Culture (Fred Stutzman)
<http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-facebook-broke-its-culture.html 
 >

Facebook, Context, and Privacy (William McGeveran)
<http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/09/17/facebook-context/>

and, finally,

Yes, Privacy Does Still Exist in a Facebook World (Michael Zimmer)
<http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/03/08/yes-privacy-does-still-exist-in-a-facebook-world/ 
 >

Are there other good approaches to privacy on Facebook in a contextual  
frame that I'm missing?
-michael.


-- 
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
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On Apr 8, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Monica Barratt wrote:

> Yes, reading this article certainly brought me back to thinking  
> about the
> blurry public/private line. I agree that it is mistaken to see this as
> completely new, rather, it is another way of doing something that  
> has been a
> threat to employees (and employers in some cases) throughout  
> history, just
> using different techniques and technology.
>
> This comment struck me:
> "Our recent story about companies sacking employees over seemingly  
> private
> Facebook chatter has provoked several new examples from readers who  
> claim
> their employers took their Facebook postings *out of context* and  
> used them
> as an excuse to show them the door."
>
> It does seem to be the case that, regardless of the "trust no-one"  
> reality,
> people feel unfairly treated by these situations where their words are
> "taken out of context" - from what felt like a private context into a
> professional context.
>
> Rhiannon, your story about the email has probably happened to so  
> many of us
> (I can think of a few times emails of mine ended up being read by  
> eyes I had
> never bargained for). Even though I know all this intellectually, I  
> still
> get the sense that - generally - my online conversations are just  
> going to
> be read by those I expect to read them. I find it hard to always  
> apply the
> rule (act like the whole world will read this!) to everything I say.  
> Well, I
> have to think about it - it doesn't come naturally to me, let's put  
> it that
> way.
>
> I'm currently writing up my research with drug users who read and/or
> participate in online discussions about drugs in public online  
> forums. I
> asked them to reflect on their concerns about privacy, if they had  
> any,
> anything they did to mitigate risks. So far I've found a wide range of
> attitudes and actions taken.. with the younger people and those with  
> less
> online experience being a lot less concerned.
>
>
> Monica
>
>
>
>
> 2009/4/9 Ben Light <B.Light at salford.ac.uk>
>
>> Thanks for the link Monica and the discussion.  I've just finished a
>> session
>> with a PhD student I am working with who's just about to jump into  
>> the
>> field
>> and follow the development and implementation of social media at a  
>> network
>> solutions company - her focus is on the possible implications for  
>> 'home'
>> and
>> 'work' life.
>>
>> Of course we found ourselves talking about the telework research of  
>> the
>> 80s,
>> but also the pre-industrial revolution cottage industries of the  
>> UK!  I'm
>> sure we could go back further :O)
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>>
>> Ben Light
>> Professor of Digital Media
>> Director IS, Organisations and Society Research Centre
>> Acting Associate Head of School - Research
>> School of Media, Music and Performance
>> The University of Salford
>> Adelphi House
>> Salford
>> M3 6EN
>>
>> www.smmp.salford.ac.uk
>> www.benlight.org
>> www.isos.salford.ac.uk
>>
>>
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