Articles in the Twitter Category
Featured, Privacy, Research ethics, Twitter »
While participating in the workshop on Revisiting Research Ethics in the Facebook Era: Challenges in Emerging CSCW Research, the question arose as to whether it was ethical for researchers to follow and systematically capture public Twitter streams without first obtaining specific, informed consent by the subjects. Many in the room felt that consent was not necessary since the tweets are public, a conscious choice made by the user to allow the whole world see her activity. In short, by not restricting …
AOIR, Larry Lessig, Twitter, Values in Design »
Speaking of Lessig, two interesting cases emerged this week that help illustrate Lessig’s position that, when thinking about the architecture of cyberspace, “code is law.”
In Code, Lessig argues that all of the rules, tendencies, affordances, and constraints of/in cyberspace are the result of human decisions, actions, and, ultimately, code. What we can and cannot do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs and protocols that make up the Internet, which can, alternatively or simultaneously, permit and restrict certain human actions:
In real space recognize how …
API, Facebook, Twitter, Web 2.0 »
On the heels of the Twitter privacy flaw, where users’ “protected” data streams are automatically accessible to third parties via their API, Facebook has now been criticized for automatically enrolling all of its users (including me, apparently) in their new data-sharing API infrastructure. From Threat Level:
Popular social networking site Facebook announced, to great fanfair, a system that lets developers build new applications using Facebook user profile data, but one privacy advocate charges that the site failed to give users enough notice about how their personal data can end upon new …
Online Privacy, Twitter »
I’ve just recently started experimenting with Twitter – that sexy new thing that lets users send 140-word messages of what they’re doing at any given moment to the world. Some users, of course, prefer to keep the mundane details of their lives among friends, and Twitter offers privacy settings so one’s stream is only available to her friends, not the entire universe.
But – not altogether surprisingly – a glitch has been discovered:
Twitter, the popular messaging site which has gained traction among the technorati, has come in for plenty of criticism …
