TY - GEN
T1 - 'I like, stalk them on facebook'
T2 - 2010 IEEE Internationl Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Emerging Technologies, ISTAS'10
AU - De Zwart, Melissa
AU - Henderson, Michael
AU - Phillips, Michael
AU - Lindsay, David
PY - 2010/7/23
Y1 - 2010/7/23
N2 - Social networking sites (SNS), including MySpace and Facebook, and other media rich websites with social networking functions such as Bebo, Flickr and YouTube, offer new and varied ways to communicate for both students and teachers. This paper focuses on the complexities, particularly legal complexities, that may arise from teachers and students sharing social networks. For example, in October 2009, Queensland State School teachers were issued with a Code of Conduct prohibiting them from using SNS to contact or access students and mandating that any 'private use' of social networks by teachers must be kept 'appropriate and private'. However, this interdiction is deeply problematic, especially as SNS are designed to increase the number of users and their connections and by their very nature resist being private. Drawing upon Australian and overseas examples, this paper describes a SNS landscape in which traditional notions of privacy are much harder to maintain and can have risks, including legal risks, for teachers.
AB - Social networking sites (SNS), including MySpace and Facebook, and other media rich websites with social networking functions such as Bebo, Flickr and YouTube, offer new and varied ways to communicate for both students and teachers. This paper focuses on the complexities, particularly legal complexities, that may arise from teachers and students sharing social networks. For example, in October 2009, Queensland State School teachers were issued with a Code of Conduct prohibiting them from using SNS to contact or access students and mandating that any 'private use' of social networks by teachers must be kept 'appropriate and private'. However, this interdiction is deeply problematic, especially as SNS are designed to increase the number of users and their connections and by their very nature resist being private. Drawing upon Australian and overseas examples, this paper describes a SNS landscape in which traditional notions of privacy are much harder to maintain and can have risks, including legal risks, for teachers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955688609&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514624
DO - 10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514624
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955688609
SN - 9781424477753
T3 - International Symposium on Technology and Society, Proceedings
SP - 319
EP - 326
BT - Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society
Y2 - 7 June 2010 through 9 June 2010
ER -