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Thursday 27th March 2008 8:00 am

[Regblogged] danah boyd: how youth find privacy in interstitial space

We reblog danah boyd’s recent piece about the race going on between parental surveillance vs. technology to assert privacy. boyd reminds us that youth have been trying to find ways to communicate outside the watchful eyes of adults for a long time. 

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“The NYTimes ran a piece today called Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK). ‘...’ The article begins with an anecdote of a parent shuttling around his daughter and her friend. They are talking and dad butts in and they roll their eyes. And then there is silence. When dad comments to his daughter that she’s being rude for texting on her phone rather than talking to her friend, the daughter replies: ‘But, Dad, we’re texting each other. I don’t want you to hear what I’m saying.’” Read more.

Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

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