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

Thu Apr 9 09:07:18 PDT 2009

Michael:

I love your work!

Chris 

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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.ht
ml
 >

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

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-f
acebook-world/
 >

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

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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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