The Between Public And Private Spaces

In the essay Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt, by Julie Zhou, her thesis is “But the law by itself cannot do enough to disarm the internet’s trolls. Content providers, social network platforms and community sites must also do their part by rethinking the systems they have in place, for user commentary so as to discourage- or disallow- anonymity.” Zhou’s thesis is located in the first two sentences of paragraph nine, on page 89. 2. The issue Zhou addresses in this essay is trolling on the internet.

The use of rhetorical questions in Dyson’s essay effectively reveals how concerned she is regarding the different communities coming together and possibly interacting while online. In her second paragraph, The author questions rather the groups “can get along”(295) and mentions that the only thing that gets the public’s reaction is the speculation that children are fully accessing adult sites(295). Dyson seems to be very eager to expose the truth and in order to change her audience’s view of World Wide Web, she made a connection between cyberspace and real estate “Some property is privately owned and

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.

Time Newspaper has learnt that it's not surprising that Internet companies have electronic dossiers that contain personal information for individuals who subscribe to the websites. Generally, these companies have obtained the information from people based on individual's visit to the website, sent and received emails, tagged photos, and searches people carry out. However, the extent of personal information known by these Internet companies has remained largely unknown as well who they provide and/or sell this information to. However, Internet companies continue to gather lots of personal information from different people who focus on carrying out online activities on a daily basis. Currently, it's estimated that these firms gather personal information from nearly 500 million users but are hesitant to provide this information to the other firms or individuals. As their unwillingness to share has attracted significant congressional inquiry, things could finally change in California following the introduction of a bill that may force companies to disclose the kind of personal information they have gathered and how this information is being used.

Jenna Chang, along with people who first studied the concept of anonymity in deindividuated behaviour, imposes findings through method of experimentations

“Dragnet Nation” author Julia Angwin and Bruce Wayne are surprisingly similar. Both have struggles with keeping private life private, dealing with baddies, and being a bit paranoid. However, unlike Batman, “Dragnet Nation” isn’t groundbreaking. Yet despite stating obvious facts, and doing more to entice paranoia than inform, Angwin does have a solid underlying point: They key to online privacy is pseudonymity. Providing false information in order to protect oneself and others, is quite simple to apply, and can deter social engineering attacks. Be that as it may, pseudonymity can be used for less noble purposes.

In today’s world the internet has pros and cons. Although I believe online anonymity was initially intended to provide a layer of safety to those engaging in the use of the internet (pros), I believe this layer of safety has morphed into something sinister (cons). It is now a shield for cowards and predators hiding behind their computers, waiting to pray on their next victim. For example, an online classified such as Craigslist is a website that prides itself through the use of anonymity in an effort to protect both the seller and the perspective buyer. However, the price for this anonymity comes with great risk for the seller, and is a breeding ground for lurking

Eissens, Ronald. "Hate Speech on the Internet Should Be Regulated." Civil Liberties, edited by Roman Espino, Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, ezproxy.aclin.org: Originally published in Hate on the Net: Virtual Nursery for In Real Life Crime, International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH), 2004.

Perhaps one of the most instrumental factors in the increasingly problematic adult misogynistic cyber-bullying scenarios is that each individual participating in the harassment is able to do so anonymously. Anonymity allows the online participants of misogynistic cyber-harassment to feel a sense of security from retribution and strips the human traits of empathy and morality from the participants. Phillip Zimbardo, a social psychologist, studies and observes the undressing of empathy and morality seen in individuals participating in anonymous activities (qtd. in Citron 58). Zimbardo concludes, “The study found that the anonymous students delivered twice as much electric shock to subjects as the non-anonymous students” (qtd. in Citron 58).

When I was younger and till this day, my mother would always tell me that there were three issues that you should never argue about: politics, religion, and sports. This piece of advice that she gave me has stuck with me throughout the years and I make sure to follow it whenever I engage in a conversation with someone. Although her advice is very simple and easy to understand, this may be the exact reason why some people forget that it is also applicable on social media. From Instagram, Facebook, and twitter; the way we interact with each other has drastically changed over the past years. This change has also affected our perception on internet civility. The issue of civility whether it be online or social civility has been talked about through mediums of written and oral communications. But now, a new form of written communication has been created to express your views and idea, social media. Social media and its’ sites have grown exponentially in how many people interact with each other on them. With so much interaction between one another, it has become difficult to sustain online civility due to the wide range of opinions; when in fact sustaining online civility should not be as difficult as it is. When defining online civility, you can approach it by thinking of it as being formal and not judging the opinions of others, and always being open-minded of what others have to say. An important part of defining online civility is being open-minded of the opinion of others,

Throughout time, privacy and security have been two heavily debated topics. There has always been a struggle to find middle ground between a private environment and a secure environment, but the dawn of technology and the Internet has made this struggle even more difficult. The Internet has drastically decreased the expectation of privacy of any and all individuals that have ever used it. Technology in general can pose a threat to an individual’s physical and virtual security. The Internet has also brought forth a sense of anonymity to those looking to conceal their true identities, some of which plan to commit horrific crimes. Privacy and security go hand in hand, however security is by far the most important.

The start of various search engines and the use of data mining created a ability for data about individuals to be collected and combined from a wide variety of sources very easily. The FTC has provided a set of guidelines that characterize widely recognized concepts concerning fair information practices in an electronic marketplace called the Fair personal information Practice Principles. In order not to provide away too greatly personal information, e-mails should be encrypted and browsing of webpages as well as further online actions should be through trace-less via anonymizers in cases those are not trusted, by open source dispersed anomymizers, so called mix nets, such as I2P or Tor - The Onion Router. Email isn't the only internet use

For the past decade or so there has been a considerable shift in the way we communicate with each other; instead of speaking face-to-face, we prefer to stay in touch by way of a Facebook post or Tweet. Social media dominates our life whether we’re using it, or not. However, not all online dissonance has been healthy and civil. The internet has seen a rise in the number of trolls and predators that lurk the dark corners of the Internet. Threats, and heinous insults flood media networks like Reddit and Snapchat. Online predators who fling insults are enamored by the internet’s alluring anonymity and can’t give it up. Like Christine Rosen says in her article called, “In the Beginning Was the Word,” “technology has introduced new words, changed the meaning of others, and has even introduced new forms of language and communication” (230). The evolutionary trend and prevalence of people intentionally offending others online has led to a

The concept of the mediatisation of space has allowed for an understanding of the intertwining of the public and the private spheres. This experience of the public sphere is seen through the infusion of symbols and representations within media forms, thus showing us the impact of changes that the media has catalysed in our individual everyday life. The public sphere within the private space can be seen in mediums such as Twitter, in which the representation of words and hashtags have shifted the societal experience. Thus, this idea of mediatisation of space allows for an understanding of the value and experience of the public in individual lives with the assistance of signs, symbols and representations.

In today’s world, we are all in some way connected to or involved with the internet. We all use different services that we feel either enrich our lives or make them more enjoyable every day, from email to FaceBook, MySpace, and e-commerce. We all take a sort of false comfort in the basic anonymity of the internet; however, when we think about it, that could end up being the single biggest risk to our own safety today. When we typically think of crimes committed against us, we could probably name several: mugging, theft, scams, murder, and rape. For these, things we all take as many necessary steps as we can to help lower the chances of them happening to us because they are on the forefront of our minds. However, most of us don’t take the