Comments on: Big Brother is watching you…and it’s us! http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/uncategorized/big-brother-is-watching-you-and-its-us/ A Free Trade column Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:39:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Martin Cahill http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/uncategorized/big-brother-is-watching-you-and-its-us/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Martin Cahill Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:30:40 +0000 http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/?p=77#comment-48 Martin Cahill (May 23 1949 – August 18 1994) was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin. :o/ Martin Cahill (May 23 1949 – August 18 1994) was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin.

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]]> By: Phil Galvin http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/uncategorized/big-brother-is-watching-you-and-its-us/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Phil Galvin Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:43:30 +0000 http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/?p=77#comment-15 Interesting that your Children can be watching what you did in the past and when you say "don't do that", they can say "well, we see that you did, and worse!!" Interesting that your Children can be watching what you did in the past and when you say “don’t do that”, they can say “well, we see that you did, and worse!!”

]]> By: Lei Zhang http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/uncategorized/big-brother-is-watching-you-and-its-us/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Lei Zhang Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:55:52 +0000 http://ko.tm.mbs.ac.uk/?p=77#comment-10 "Big Brother” is us, as in all of us." You are absolutely right, Andrew. "regardless of who it is, the fact remains that the information is there, it is retrievable and it will probably stay out there for a very long time." The Web is just part of our society although we didn't think so before. As we are always watched by someone in our offline life, it is becoming the same on the Web with the growing amount of information we feed into it. However, instead of being negative, I think we may be able to expect some positive outcomes from using the Web. -Individual's credibility: On the Web, you are not what you claim, but what you did. It is interesting to see how many people claim to be social media experts all of sudden. However, anyone who knows how to search will not find it too difficult to check out a self-claimed expert's credibility. -Sharing culture: Due to transparency on the Web, we have some knowledge about who we are talking to. As a result, perhaps we will be more willing to share our ideas. Or at least, we think sharing is a good thing to do. There have been evidences that education benefited from social networking sites, for example, BBC's report on Facebook 'cuts student drop-outs' http://bit.ly/2mBjuH -Self-regulated society: Am I being idealistic? But at least I can expect to see more of 'us' take initiatives to improve the world we live in. In fact, we already have huffington post, Global Voices Online and Manchester-based People's Voice Media http://bit.ly/2gjs8u In summary, the Web is another way we reach out to each other. Whether it can or cannot help us depends on how 'we' use the Web. We have to think critically about what we see online and act sensibily as we are in our offline life. P.S. I enjoyed reading your post. “Big Brother” is us, as in all of us.” You are absolutely right, Andrew.
“regardless of who it is, the fact remains that the information is there, it is retrievable and it will probably stay out there for a very long time.”

The Web is just part of our society although we didn’t think so before. As we are always watched by someone in our offline life, it is becoming the same on the Web with the growing amount of information we feed into it.

However, instead of being negative, I think we may be able to expect some positive outcomes from using the Web.

-Individual’s credibility: On the Web, you are not what you claim, but what you did. It is interesting to see how many people claim to be social media experts all of sudden. However, anyone who knows how to search will not find it too difficult to check out a self-claimed expert’s credibility.

-Sharing culture: Due to transparency on the Web, we have some knowledge about who we are talking to. As a result, perhaps we will be more willing to share our ideas. Or at least, we think sharing is a good thing to do. There have been evidences that education benefited from social networking sites, for example, BBC’s report on Facebook ‘cuts student drop-outs’ http://bit.ly/2mBjuH

-Self-regulated society: Am I being idealistic? But at least I can expect to see more of ‘us’ take initiatives to improve the world we live in. In fact, we already have huffington post, Global Voices Online and Manchester-based People’s Voice Media http://bit.ly/2gjs8u

In summary, the Web is another way we reach out to each other. Whether it can or cannot help us depends on how ‘we’ use the Web. We have to think critically about what we see online and act sensibily as we are in our offline life.

P.S. I enjoyed reading your post.

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