Wed. April 30, 2008: Miriam Simun on Digital Natives and Privacy: Recorded, always and forever?
The Center for Research on Computation and Society continues its
weekly lunch seminar:
CRCS Privacy and Security Lunch Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Time: 12:00pm-1:30 pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119
Topic: Digital Natives and Privacy: Recorded, always and forever?
Speaker: Miriam Simun, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
As Digital Natives navigate their lives–both online and off–they
leave behind multitude of digital tracks. Young people today are
growing up with an unprecedented amount of data being recorded and
collected about them. Movements are captured by security cameras in
the street, locations are easily tracked via the GPS on cell phones,
and youth themselves are sharing details of their private lives with
friends, strangers, and service providers through a number of web and
mobile technologies. As young people grown up digital, they are
blurring the boundaries public and private. Do Digital Natives have a
fundamentally different approach to privacy? How does both the
physical and online environment impact the ways in which young people
think about privacy? What are the implications of growing up in a
society where everything is recorded? What are the benefits and
concerns raised with the emerging “culture of sharing”? How can
education, technical and legal architecture begin to address these
issues?
Miriam Simun is the research coordinator on the Digital Natives project
at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Her research interests include emerging social practices with digital
media, the role of technical architecture in new modes of social
interaction, and gender online. Prior to joining Berkman, Miriam
conducted research on the social effects of Mp3 player use in urban
spaces, and the impact of community leadership programs serving at-risk
youth. She holds a BSc in Sociology with a concentration in
Information Communication Technologies from the London School of
Economics.