The IA Summit this year seemed to be a pretty emotional one for many of us. As a community we talked about humanity and ethics. These topics have been of interest to me since my undergrad media ethics class and have guided my practice over the years, so I was pretty excited about it! In 3 days, we bonded as a community and strived to push IA forward. There were new faces that became familiar as the days went on. Three values described our community and this years Summit, they would be inclusion, humanity, and ethics.
Read MoreRe-visiting an old college textbook of mine, Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, I stumbled upon a piece on early Facebook. This particular chapter focuses on privacy and highlights a change Facebook made to its newsfeed in 2006. The synopsis goes like this, Facebook changed its newsfeed so that all information shared on Facebook was now broadcasted to a person's network.
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