Dave Eggers The Circle

The internet has become a popular source used by society of a worldwide computer network that provides a variety of information and communication facilities allowing individuals to communicate with one another easily. The internet it self has brought people together but has changed the way people interact with each other, created isolation, some addiction and being unsafe. Nowadays, anything can be shared to the wide world through any device that is able to connect to the internet; where this can lead to what Charles Seife terms as “no privacy” in his article, “The Loneliness of the Interconnected.” According to Seife, the Internet’s vast interconnectivity made it possible for everyone to hear everyone else - and to be heard by everyone else.

For the Junior summer reading, the “nonfiction” book written by Dave Eggers has developed substantial controversy regarding its credibility. Although throughout the book Zeitoun was depicted as a righteous hero that suffered great injustices due to the racial profiling and islamophobia. However, in 2013 that persona was challenge when he was accused of attempted murder of his ex wife Kathy. This resulted in severe press coverage surrounding both Zeitoun and Eggers damaging their reputations, many believing that the event of the book are fabricated in order to better serve Eggers purpose. Nevertheless, Eggers work should still be read by students because it allows them to practices identifying strategies crucial for the AP English course.

Erik Ravenscraft wrote this editorial to inform average computer using people about the dangers of internet privacy. Ravencraft wrote about this because ever since the computer became a mainstream device people have been stealing information and passcodes. In his editorial Ravenscraft uses many Rhetorical Devices, a couple of those Devices are Logos and Ridicule. Ravenscraft uses these Devices to strengthen his opinion when he talks about the number of people getting hacked and how securing data does not work like people think it does.

Feed by Matthew Tobin Anderson is a compelling and alluring novel about the boundaries of personal privacy. In a futuristic world, the United State’s technology and advertising have taken away every inch of privacy and freedom that the citizens once had because of the “feed.” The “feed” is an advanced internet system that connects you to a variety of everyday occurrences, such as types of music, entertainment programs, and even others’ memories. In this world, normalities include parents designing what their children would look like, schools being run by major corporations, and corporations holding more power than the president.

Dave Eggers was born on March 12, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts. Eggers was the son of a lawyer and a school teacher. Although he was born in Boston, Eggers was raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. Eggers went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study journalism, but then tragedy struck for the young college student. Both his father and mother both became ill with cancer and died a short time later.

In her article George Orwell…Meet Mark Zuckerberg, Lori Andrews discusses the privacy issue on internet. The issue involving Data aggregators that hack into our internet and use our personal information to sell to larger cooperation’s so they can advertise items to us. In this Article Andrews argues against the idea of cooperation’s going through someone personal internet history on what they have researched on and to use that information as a database for describing that person, creating another life on the internet. Andrews claims that if you were to get a loan, a job, a house or a credit card it would now work on web lining basically what you have put on your digital self, rather than your credit history it would depend on things like

Many people have different opinions on the meaning of courage. To Kill a Mockingbird has many characters that fit the definition well, such as Scout, Atticus, and even Calpurnia. Each character shows honesty, braveness, and standing up for what they believe in throughout different chapters. Courage is something everyone has but may not show it, Scout for instance, is just being herself, but she is courageous.

He then uses ethos by discussing his role as “an operator of a small government-transparency Web site,” who does good for his site’s visitors when there is enough money to do so. Harper is a founding member of the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee for the Department of Homeland Security and an expert in the legal complications surrounding new technologies. He offers us this role to persuade readers to perceive him as a trustworthy person. Harper begins his essay by stating that if you surf the Web, you are part of the information economy. His essay, which was published in the Wall Street Journal, argues that the business models and opportunities used to customize advertising justifies the use of data mining. Because of advertising and the use of cookies, which are files used to track users in order to customize their experiences, companies such as Google are able to spend millions of dollars on free

Although this novel expresses a more extreme level of security and lack of privacy than realistically seen, with the advancements of technology today there is no

It’s a bright Sunday morning; the birds are chirping, the smell of fresh coffee is in the air and you turn on the tv; “Another Leak Of All Verizon Users Personal Information Out On The Web” is today's headline on the news. In our society right now; the government has the utmost power; yet they might not be using their powers in ways you’d expect. If you're a daily electronic users at Urbandale High School who spends at least 30 hours a week using online functions for entertainment or work; then you might not have heard or seen what the government's been doing recently. In an in depth analysis shows that our life we’re living right now could be seen as a dystopian universe over 50 years ago. Yet as our nation advances, its being advanced in

The human identity is worn as a mask with shapeshifting capabilities and espionage. In the real world, this mask appears simplistic; however, the internet is an abstract space of node connections that streams a wild flurry of ideas, people, and identities. One’s mask does not need a definition to stand firmly in this chaos but merely need to express what is hidden beneath the mask: humanity. That is what it means to have the right to anonymity, the freedom of expression and the right to be protected from outside entities who will stop at nothing to forcefully seize the mask along with physical data. One discourse community dedicated to protecting the rights to anonymity is the Tor Project, a worldwide group that helps create an anonymous browser to hide identity details and participates in establishing it in journalism, academia, activism, and normal users. The exploration of the rights of anonymity will be examined through the discourse community characteristics of Tor by reviewing Porters and Swales works in discourse communities, by using methods of primary investigation through interviewing Tor members, and discussing how Tor fits into Swales six characteristics of a discourse community.

Reading Andrew Blum’s Tubes, the section on the openness and trust required to define the internet immediately caught my attention. “There’s a certain amount of vulnerability involved with being a network on the Internet. When two networks connect, they have to trust each other—which also means trusting everyone the other one trusts.” It strikes me, that today the struggle of the internet is how to make it more private—to protect everyone’s information, when at its very core it’s meant to be open and shared. There is something to be said about the trust needed to run networks. People are constantly providing personal information to websites. Whether it’s to transfer some money between bank accounts, pay a bill, or even update information on

Dave Eggers’s novel, The Circle, explores how a social media company can abuse its powers to monopolize and survey all of its users. In this novel, a company named The Circle starts as a small social media site then grows to reach millions of users, and it eventually takes over advertising, government, trade, exchange, and all sources of information. This extreme surveillance is satiric because the novel’s reality is far too outrageous that it would not be possible in our world. Yet, Eggers forces the reader to consider the extent to which our privacy should be protected, and this question is important because it forces the reader to reflect on his/her reality and use of social media; Eggers suggests that privacy and secrecy are basic human

Throughout Dave Eggers’ extraordinary novel The Circle, many themes play conform in the interpretation and portrayal of the story. However, the theme of privacy rises above all others to be the main theme in the story. Through the examples of privacy within the novel such as the countless number of cameras and the completely glass workplace, lessons can be learned about the importance of privacy both individually as well as in terms of a society. Additionally, once the examples of privacy are identified, different opinions can be formed on the level of importance privacy should hold within an everyday human life as well as within society itself as a whole. Through Mae’s story we come to find that personal privacy is essential in order for people to be individuals as opposed to being exactly like one another, as well as the importance personal privacy holds when it comes to members of society functioning well with each other and growing as people. As well as analyzing The Circle in terms of privacy and the boundaries of privacy that should be implemented within a society, we also compare and contrasted The Circle with the United States Government today in terms of privacy.

“Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty” is an essay written by Nicholas Carr in 2010 in the Wall Street Journal. He said that there are chances that, “our personal data will fall into the wrong hands” (Carr 438). It means that people’s personal information might drop under the hands of hackers, data aggressors, and stalkers. In addition, Carr believes that “personal information may be used to influence our behavior and even our thoughts in ways that are invisible to us” (Carr 439). It means that the data aggressors misuse people’s information in opposite way or in a wrong way. For example, data aggressors steal the people’s personal information and use that information for their own benefits. Therefore, Carr believes that government should regulate the internet. Unlike Carr, Harper believes that people are responsible for their own information. They should be aware and concerned about potential dangers of posting their personal information on the internet. However, it’s people duty to be aware of its consequences before posting any of their personal