Week 7 Image Is Everything

Week 7 Reflections

Image and Reputations

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This past week was learning about privacy and reputation. To start what I really appreciated was the link for Department of Defense Social Media site. What a fantastic resource. It would be a great link to include on all social media sites. Security of privacy continues to be a prominent issue in the virtual world and having a set of clear guidelines to ensure that protection is vital.

This week also included some important factors about behaviors of virtual users. After reviewing Randy Farmers Web Reputation Systems video, I learned quite about those behaviors. It was interesting to learn about the myths associated with online social media interactions. He seemed to be saying that one’s online behavior/conduct and visual presentation of one’s site sways the other’s opinions. In other words, depending on what one says or what pictures are posted on one’s site, determines one’s reputation as either positive or negative. 

D’Aquin, Rowe & Motta (2011) make some interesting points about the behavior of online users as well. They claim that online users have a false belief of their own online habits. This discrepancy in user activity has led to the development of data gathering tools such as Attention Recorder as a means to actually track their own use on the Web both personally and professional. Self-tracking involves monitoring what information is visible on the Web. Some companies monitor their reputation of their reputation from social media sites by extracting the references of person’s who bad mouth them.

According to Chesire & Antin (2010) the internet does have the benefit of people being able to connect with others all around the world from their own vicinity; but, warns online users to wield caution on they conduct or present themselves on line.  By carefully choosing trusted sites to participate in users might protect themselves from online abuses. A really good point that was made was how users are often violating their own privacy by not realizing that “digital identifiers” (e.g., e-mail addresses, user names, and uniform resource locators (URL’s) are stored used by others.

By participating in some social networking sites, for example Facebook, users might not realized that their information what they post is being evaluated and used shared with advertisers. So, what appears to be a free service has price attached to it.

References

Cheshire, C. & Judd, A. (2010). Behaviors, adverse events, and dispositions: An empirical study of online discretion and information control. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (7), 1487-1501.

D'Aquin, M., Rowe, M. & Motta, E. (2011). Self-tracking on the Web: Why and how. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/papers/aquin.pdf

Randy Farmer's Building Web reputation systems. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7e0J9m6rE

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