The Digital Of Digital Media

As human beings and citizens of the world, everyone values their privacy. It is a right that is often looked over and taken for granted by most. Since the beginning of time, there have been concerns about individuals’ rights to privacy and their personal information remaining confidential. Our founding fathers had concerns about this which is why, “…this right has developed into

With the advent of information technology, the ways different aspects of life work and operate have changed a great deal. Media has always had a great influence in molding the culture of a society. There was a point of time when television and radio were invented and when computer was invented and there was little connection between the two. Time then travelled fast then through the age of cassettes, records, VCDs, DVDs, flash drive and then the internet. Media also started to go satellite on a massive scale and there came a point of time when media and digital communication systems became closely integrated with one another, opening the dimensions to digital media.

Currently technology has become more advanced than ever and continues to evolve. We communicate and discover what is going on in the world in multiple ways. For example, through utilizing the internet to search for information, smartphones to connect with our family and friends through applications such as Facebook or Instagram are ways in which people communicate. These advances have prevailed due to the interest and those who use this technology, people are always wondering what others are doing and also like to disclose what is going on in their life. However, oversharing can cause harm in some ways when it is invading someone’s privacy. Confidentiality is a right that should be safeguarded especially in the

Modern Americans see privacy as one of the greatest freedoms. When Edward Snowden revealed the NSA surveillance program, the citizens of the United States were appalled by the extent of access the NSA had to personal information. However, according to Dan Tapscott in his essay, “Should We Ditch the Idea of Privacy?” we post just as many details daily on our numerous social media outlets. The majority of the information we freely post is not meaningful and does no harm to us by being public, yet there is a dangerous side to our open-book nature.

Privacy is what allows people to feel secure in their surroundings. With privacy, one is allowed to withhold or distribute the information they want by choice, but the ability to have that choice is being violated in today’s society. Benjamin Franklin once said, “He who sacrifices freedom or liberty will eventually have neither.” And that’s the unfortunate truth that is and has occurred in recent years. Privacy, especially in such a fast paced moving world, is extremely vital yet is extremely violated, as recently discovered the NSA has been spying on U.S. citizens for quite a while now; based on the Fourth Amendment, the risk of leaked and distorted individual information, as well as vulnerability to lack of anonymity.

As a growing topic of discussion, privacy in our society has stirred quite some concern. With the increase of technology and social networking our standards for privacy have been altered and the boundary between privacy and government has been blurred. In the article, Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets, Peter Singer addresses the different aspects of privacy that are being affected through the use of technology. The role of privacy in a democratic society is a tricky endeavor, however, each individual has a right to privacy. In our society, surveillance undermines privacy and without privacy there can be no democracy.

Privacy, a term that is reluctant in today’s modernized society who’s meaning is far from realistic. As the world congruently fosters a new way of living, through technology our lives as we know as our own is far from it. This paper will discuss the use of technology to research ones private information, the advantages and disadvantages of the public access of such information and the laws that promulgate such data.

This past week’s course work was focused on privacy as it relates to ethics in information technology, privacy protection and key privacy issues. We have learned from our text, research and discussion board collaborations that an individual’s privacy is not fully protected from a legal perspective, that government and businesses must protect how data is saved and who is allowed to access educational, medical, or any personally identifiable information (PII) that can contribute to privacy and anonymity issues. That as an individual, we must take action in securing and protecting our PII to prevent malicious acts such as identity theft.

Today, individuals are sacrificing privacy in order to feel safe. These sacrifices have made a significant impact on the current meaning of privacy, but may have greater consequences in the future. According to Debbie Kasper in her journal, “The Evolution (Or Devolution) of Privacy,” privacy is a struggling dilemma in America. Kasper asks, “If it is gone, when did it disappear, and why?”(Kasper 69). Our past generation has experienced the baby boom, and the world today is witnessing a technological boom. Technology is growing at an exponential rate, thus making information easier to access and share than ever before. The rapid diminishing of privacy is leaving Americans desperate for change.

Privacy has been a thing for consideration ever since the early days and has even become more worrisome recently with the evolvement of information technology. Individuals around the world value their privacy and the protection of their personal information. Having a knowledge of who is accessing their information and what it is being used for. But with the recent and rapid evolvement of IT, information privacy is being threatened and individuals no longer possess the control over who has access to their information or what their information is being used for. Taherdoost et al. defined privacy as the claim of individuals to determine for themselves when to, to whom, and to what extent individually identified data about them is communicated or used (2013, p. 147). Taherdoost et al. further went on to discuss that privacy invasions are usually not that dramatic or noticeable as it creeps up on us and might take a while before realizing that your information is being collected and used for different purposes you have no idea about.

With the advent of mobile phones, iPad and other smart technology, accessing information across the web has become very easy. You can sit at home and pay your phone bills, or talk to someone from across the world. Along with these benefits, it has also become easier to get access to information that would otherwise be restricted. In recent years, debates have taken place regarding the concern of the privacy of information that is uploaded on the internet, or that is taken from it. This research paper aims at comparing the controversies that surround the concept of privacy in the digital age.

Privacy is a valuable interest and is now threatened more than ever by technological advances. Privacy is defined as the ability to control the collection, use, and dissemination of personal information (Fast Trac Course ). At one time people could once feel confident that what others may find out about them would be treated in a way that it would probably do any harm. Information technology has been beneficial for privacy. By having access to ATMs and online banking we rarely have to present ourselves to a teller. Online shopping offers similar benefits such as being able to shop without standing in long lines and being able to compare prices and research products before purchasing. However, since so much of what we do daily is done

There has become less and less privacy in the world. This problem is almost to the point where every move we make is recorded. This is thought of as a good thing by some people and a bad thing by others. Privacy is needed in everyone’s life in order to keep individuality among the people in the world.

“Societies have always been shaped by media for communication, it is impossible to understand social and cultural change without knowledge of the workings of media even the alphabet is a technology that is absorbed by young children to learn to speak through communication. The digital age is changing the way we use our brains. Rather than store important facts, today we are more likely to store information about how to find those facts where a particular file is located on the computer, how to find an important webpage again.

The Wise Virgin (See Figure 19) is based on the parable of the virgins told by Jesus in Matthew 25:1-13. In the story, ten virgins are waiting for the arrival of their bridegroom. They do not know when the groom is coming, but five of the virgins bring oil for their lamps and are ready for his arrival. The other five do not bring oil to keep their lamps filled, and so when the groom arrived at midnight, they were not ready and were not allowed to go to the wedding feast. (Matthew 25:1-13) The story is typified as an example of the Second Coming of Christ- Jesus is the bridegroom, while the virgins are the world. It illustrates the need for the church to be ready for His coming at any time, since there is not telling when that coming will be.