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

[Deborah Lupton]

Mike Michael and I used cultural probes drawn from design research in group
tasks to elicit public understandings of personal data and dataveillance.
These methods could readily be used as a teaching tool as well.

Our article outlining methods and findings is available OA here
<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/whos_data>
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:55 PM, Sarah Ann Oates <soates at umd.edu> wrote:

> 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
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>
>
>
> 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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