[Air-L] Social media legal and privacy issues exercise

[Sarah Ann Oates]

We have students break into groups, find, and then read the privacy
policies on various platforms such as FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc. Part of the
fun is that they can be hard to find, which angers the students and then
makes them pretty critical :) They then grade the privacy policies with a
letter grade (which they enjoy, because they like getting to give someone
else a grade). It led to a really good discussion in class as each group
justified their 'grade'. This was a basic 'core' requirement class with a
wide range of abilities but what really amazed me was how fast they did it
-- it took them about 20 minutes to find, read, analyze, and grade the main
points of a privacy policy (just as a warning because I often underestimate
the analytical speed of the Millennial student ... ) Sarah


Sarah Oates
Professor and Senior Scholar
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20457
Email: soates at umd.edu
Phone: 301 405 4510

www.media-politics.com
Twitter: @media_politics



On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:43 AM Gohar F. Khan <gohar.feroz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for ideas on interactive in-class exercise on social media
> legal and privacy issues for my undergrad students. Ideally, they should
> work in small groups to carry out the exercise.  Any topic that fits within
> the broader scope of regal and/or privacy issues related to social media
> use/data will work. Normally, I would ask them to review a social media
> platform's privacy policy and report back on how they use your data. But
> this time I intend to do something different.
>
> Any suggestions, please?
>
> Cheers,
> Khan
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