political economy and facebook privacy
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Political Economy and Facebook Privacy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJXOavGwAW8&feature=player_embedded. Quiz Question #1. “We should therefore go beyond a bourgeois notion of Facebook and try to advance a _______concept of privacy that aims at strengthening - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Political Economy and Facebook Privacyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJXOavGwAW8&feature=player_embedded
Quiz Question #1
“We should therefore go beyond a bourgeois notion of Facebook and try to advance a _______concept of privacy that aims at strengthening the protection of consumers and citizens from corporate surveillance and other forms of domination” (Fuchs, p. 141).
a) Socialistb) Smartc) Secretd) Financial
Quiz Question #2
What does Fuchs say that Facebook relies on to stay in business?
a) Mark Zuckerbergb) Privacy policyc) Unpaid labor of Facebook usersd) Government regulations
Quiz Question #3
________ describes the increasingly blurred line between producers and consumers.
a) Surplus valueb) Internet usersc) Prosumersd) Conducers
Quiz Question #4
“direct participation of citizens in the regulation of the key institutions of society, including the workplace and local community” is a key featureof what notion?
a) Freedomb) Transparencyc) Capitalismd) Participatory democracy
Privacy
Liberal conception of privacy
Financial privacy “The anonymity of wealth, high incomes, and profits
makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimate and uphold these gaps.” (Fuchs, p.140)
Socialist conception of privacy
Contextual privacy
Privacy needs to protect consumers and workers from company control…but corporate interests and power should be
made visible.
Has the internet become “participatory”?
“Social networking sites and other internet platforms need to be controlled by the
users themselves and organized within the framework of a participatory economy in order to be sensitive to the economic privacy of users” (Fuchs, p. 149).
FB invests $ to create free platform and hires employees to run it
Users populate with data
FB sells information to advertising clients
Targeted ads
What are the commodities here?
http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/
Facebook studies so far: Individual responsibility vs. corporate exploitation
EULA’s and neoliberalism
Did you know this? How transparent is Instagram’s new TOS?
So…what can we do?
Opt-in privacy policies
Alternative internet platforms
Negotiate terms of service?
Petitions, protests, and lobbying
Opt-Out
Privacy Watchdogs – increase transparency
Do Not Track Online Act of 2011
Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011
Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights – early 2012
Other social media sites?
Group Work
1. Define your term or phrase in your own words
2. Explain how it is used in the article, or how it relates to Fuchs’ arguments
3. Think of two examples of this concept (can be from your experience or not – real or hypothetical)
Prosumer Transparency Surveillance
Playbor Exploitation “Liberal privacy values”
Contextual privacy Participatory democracy