Please reflect on our discussion and post your Socratic seminar reflection. Remember to include:
1.Based on this seminar, what are the most
important points about this text?
2. How does my understanding of the text connect to
other things I’m learning?
3. There are 3 main ideas I’m taking away from this seminar...
3. There are 3 main ideas I’m taking away from this seminar...
4. What
questions do I have as a result of this seminar?
Remember to be as specific as possible. For example, give a Socratic seminar SHOUT OUT, acknowledging something that was said by your classmates that made you better understand the text or maybe they said something that you never thought about before.
Your response should be about 2 paragraphs.Your reflection is due by Friday night (8pm). This deadline is to help you, so the ideas we discussed are still fresh and you can reflect on everything. If you want to continue talking about some of the ideas discussed let's use this space to continue the conversation.
For Monday, read pages 166-185. Please take notes.
In Thursday's Socratic Seminar students were instructed to read non-fictional articles about how our privacy has been diminished to a point where we only have "true privacy" while sleeping. One of the reasons why our privacy has been tremendously diminished is because of fear, our fear as well as state's fear. For example, Ashley P.'s article talks about how the "safety" in United States has increased since 911, resulting in dramatic increase of our privacy, we cannot take 1 step that the government already knows where we are going and how we are going.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the Socratic Seminar, many questions were asked and answered, yet, one question still hasn't been answered, in my opinion. Which is "what is privacy?" The dictionary definition for privacy is the state of being alone and away from other people. In my opinion, personal privacy is something individually defined by a person's need and every day life.
Also, Nathan's article states "little brother is watching you," comparing the non-fiction article to 1984. Both Nathan's article and my article talks about the availability of personal information that we give to people on internet. A person's privacy is no longer individual, everybody, literally everybody has access to information given on social networks, such as date of birth, name, etc. Such information can lead a Hacker to find social security number, credit card, etc, with no difficulties at all. Thus, the question is, do we want to make our personal privacy, a "public privacy"? If we continue to act the same way, our society will be under Big Brother, in 2084 or before.
Based on this Seminar, the important points about this text is that its about how now a days no one has much privacy anymore. After 9/11 so many camera's were purchased so people could feel safe which ended up having everything and everyone watched, like in 1984. Also, how camera's that we have now are mostly used for mundane things because we don't get any attacks. My understanding of the text connects to other things I'm learning by showing me that some things in 1984 connects to some things that go on now, such as the lack of privacy. Though, in 1984 they don't have a choice weather to be watched or not in their own homes, while us, with the use of our technology, can decide how much of our lives we share.
ReplyDeleteThree main ideas I'm taking from this seminar is that independent privacy is up to you, the fourth amendment is being broken, and that this fear of being attacked is making the surveillance camera business very wealthy. Since technology has grown, social media is being used a lot by everyone, putting their lives out there on the internet for everyone to see. Many don't though, so how much independent privacy depends on the person and what they want. The Fourth Amendment is being violated by the government because of all the access they have by our phones and computers. Also, that surveillance camera companies are being made rich because of everyone's fear of a terrorist attack so the companies are making money while these peoples privacy are being violated. A question I have as a result of this seminar is, will we ever have real privacy where we don't have to worry about the government watching what we do?
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ReplyDeleteIn Thursday's socratic seminar. points that were discussed were mainly revolved around privacy, question it in our society, as well as connecting those ideas to the novel 1984. For example, in Luis's article, it was stated "personal privacy is no longer an individual thing", this questions the level of privacy we have in our society. Similarly, I tried to add during the last moments of the socratic seminar that in our day and age, there is a fine line between what is private or public because of social media. As it was discussed, and said by several individuals, people tend to post things about there everyday lives online, nothing is private because of this.
ReplyDeleteAshley's article on the how the the privacy in the United State, since 9/11, had been invaded for safety and precaution reason. Interestingly, she also made a point that as a result of fear, capital companies have used this tragic event to their advantage to raised their revenue in selling security cameras.
Another idea, in my article, was that the fourth amendment has been unofficially voided or nulled in some cases in which suspected criminals' license plates are tracked with out warrant. This adds to the argument on whether or not the invasion of privacy done by the government or government officials is justified. That could be a question I take away from the discussion? If it is for the sake of safety, will the invasion of privacy done by the government be justified, if it is unconstitutional?
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ReplyDeleteMy assigned article, “Little Brother Is Watching,” gave a frankly surprising perspective on when surveillance is done not from the often-accused government, but the end-user. In it, reporter Walter Kirn cites cases where it was the mischievous individual who taps in the private lives of others nearby them, such as roommates or professionals in the military, and publicizes these details often as a sort of cruel entertainment. This scarcely discussed point of view gave me inspiration on questions regarding the implications of person-by-person spying in other works we’re reviewing, like 1984.
I began the Socratic seminar by asking whether we, as consumers and producers of information in the digital age, are able to separate the public and private realm from interfering with one another, and most importantly whether we value such a rift at all. Brianna answered citing her own article, which discusses the controversy surrounding the tracking of GPS systems by the state and how we’ve been largely complacent to these constitutional violations. This brought up some interesting – yet frightening – possibilities: what if our devices, like cell phones and GPS, are susceptible to tracking by not just high-level security officials, but the common layman too? Also, how can access to our locations prove invasive and ultimately dangerous to our wellbeing when its unknown as to whom has access to that sensitive data?
Brianna’s article reminded me of other instances where the nature of open, globally-connected technology can be abused; local search and discovery services Foursquare and Google Latitude were highly controversial when released because they revealed the user’s precise location – coordinates, address, and all – to those ‘friended,’ or in some cases to the entire public. Software vulnerabilities have been found in the recent past as well, allowing hackers free reign to passwords, files, and even bank account numbers. From this complication alone, it’s safe to say that those set out to watch you for malevolent purposes can not only be degrading and immoral, but highly illegal; in 2011, the US Federal Trade Commission realized the growing threat that unprotected telecommunications warranted and urged the White House to take a proactive stance on Internet privacy for users in the coming future. Such forewarnings have been made by grassroots organizations and governments the same, and the end of our seminar agreed upon a similar conclusion.
Unlike 1984 and to a certain extent North Korea, the surveillance that now exists in the 21st century is unpredictable and driven by a voyeuristic desire to expose the intimate details of others once limited to the self, but now almost expected to be available for scrutiny. As Kirn wrote, “With nowhere to hide, you might as well perform, dispensing with old-fashioned notions of discretion and personal dignity.” This might as well be the direction our psychological response to exposure is heading towards, and as a collective we all take certain guiltiness in causing it.
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ReplyDeleteBased on this seminar, the most important points that were brought up were about privacy and safety. Most of us had articles regarding technology and their place in privacy. For example, someone brought up a point in their article where it was not possible for us to have private lives anymore. This is because we post so many things online about our private lives that gives away our privacy. Another point in an article we discussed was how war was used as an excuse for security camera companies to make a profit. Three main ideas that I’m taking away from this seminar is how the world may rely on world disasters for profits in certain companies, how privacy may cease to exist and how the idea of placing trackers exists and is being debated on whether it is against the commandments or not.
The understanding of the texts relates to what we are learning while reading the novel, 1984. In the news articles we saw how some things that were happening in the society in the book are also taking place in our world today. For example, putting trackers on us and the government being able to tap into our phone calls is like how it was in the novel where there were telescreens that watched the citizens’ every move. Some questions that I have as a result of this seminar are if public records are a problem since anyone is allowed to look up someone’s name and get information from them online.
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December 15th 2014
Socratic Seminar: Keeping up with the Times & 1984
The article assigned to me was “Little Brother is Watching You”, in all I found the article super interesting. Many things that we spoke about throughout our seminar happen in our everyday life, things that I never even gave much thought to. My article touches upon the invasion of privacy and provides two examples of real life cases where it was either positive or negative in ones life. Youngsters of today become so ignorantly reliable on technology that we forget to use our brains to stop for a minute and think about what we do on it. While we waste our time posting up pictures, bashing one another and giving our whole lives’ to the web, other’s use their time into something whish can be harmful or useful depending on their means. I feel like the most important part of my text has to do with the fact that we never know who’s watching us. One little thing can determine life or death, but at the end of it mental strength plays a big part.
Throughout our seminar, I found captive a point that Luis had made, the way that our privacy vanishes online. I’ve seen many cases of this happening, now-a-days all of our information is online and many people have mastered hacking. Privacy is no longer an individual thing. We shove so much of our lives on facebook and other social networks that anybody can find out anything about us. We all have our own opinions but who do you rather have watching us Big Brother, the government, or Little Brother, normal people like you and I? Think about this while I present you with parts of my article. Two people, two completely different cases with a wide variety of solutions. Tyler Clementi “recently committed suicide after a live-stream video of an intimate encounter of his was played on the Web, Little Brother took the form of prying roommate with a webcam.” He could have been still alive today, by pushing through the embarrassment that he suffered and possibly make a reality show about the whole scenario but unfortunately he was mentally ready for all that came his way. One the other hand people succeed from “little brother”, a guy who taped his girlfriend as she unknowingly danced, ended up making her a rising star after the video went viral and becoming high profiled when making an appearance in the “Tyra Banks Show”. Overall I feel that if Big Brother as they do today watched us things would be better there would be less harassment because why would they care of harming or helping a persons life that they don’t know?
Pertaining to this topic, there is a new series coming out soon called “Eye Candy”. From its previews, it matches with this topic of invasion of privacy. I recently have watched a documentary on hacking systems to spy on people. Did you know that now a day if you get access to a person’s phone for 5 minutes you’re able to control and know their every move? You can track them; hear their conversation on and off calls as long as the phone is on, read their messages; all of these things are done through your own personal phone. They wouldn’t have any idea that you or anybody is spying. It is great that technology has gotten this far as some one said in the seminar “we’re now able to build new and stronger weapons and do so many new improvements in our world, but at the same time this technology is killing us” whether it’s through bullying or spying, everyone’s intentions vary and you may never know what they can do with you. For as low as 20 dollars every 3 months, with a persons name I am able to find out their phone number, family members, recent and passed addresses, car license and with all the information its vise versa. This Socratic seminar made me think about how much more careful we all truly have to be, and to watched what we post/said and where, around whom. Who knows maybe you’ll become famous when some one intrudes your privacy but what if you die like Tyler? Think wisely.