Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Who can we trust?

Can we trust Andy Ihnatko when he claims that no, he is not the Fake Steve Jobs, although FSJ also has humor and uses anglicisms? I am not sure, but I am pretty confident that his haircut is not to Mackey's par.



Self-presentation over the internet really is becoming a complex affair. Who would have thought that venerable institutions such as universities would adapt so fast to the Facebook world of their students? It used to be that what happened outside of the classroom or of school grounds was not the business of Faculty or administrators. Nowadays, though, Facebooks offer interesting peaks to students' "anti-social behaviors" dixit Oxford University's proctors.

Revealing example of the limits of private / public behaviors online and of the ethical dilemmas that those in position of authority (from parents to University's administration and then to potential employers) encounter when dealing with all-pervasive but also confusing and misleading internet information.


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