who does it protect?

1) Yourself (researcher)

2) School

3) Participant

4) Institution

5) Company/Employer

6) Supervisor

Potential damage….. 

- Reputation

- Equipment

- Emotional damage

- Financial Damage

- Physical Damage

Will it be Published?…… Where is the data stored?……. What will happen to it after its completion?

Give Informed Confidentiality…? What is the research about?…….Can the person pull out?……. Can they ask for their information back?…….. No coercion!!!

Do NMIT Nelson students understand the “Dangers” using Facebook, poses to their future professional persona’s?

The title….

Are student’s professional persona’s endangered  by using Facebook.

How will i go about this?

research before… on social networking sites, issues relating to professional life, extent of student use…

method will be using surveys…

-what questions/ open ended?

-what kind of answers? words/numbers(stats)

Area:“online social networking”

New playground for students has been created, “Online social networking sites” and how they offer you the ability to keep up with current friends, old friends and meet new friends.

Topic: Facebook

Facebook was created for students originally.

Is there dangers using site?

are students aware of these dangers?

Is there really anything “Private” on this site?

Are students aware of how to use their “Privacy Settings?

Question

I want to know that if any students that use Facebook understand how to use the privacy options offered by Facebook. Do they know that by adding an application they have allow some total and random person authorisation of all their information and permission to use it. Do student know that future employees are looking more and more into a prospective employees online “Persona” before hiring them?

Do NMIT Nelson students understand the “Dangers” using Facebook, poses to their future professional personas?

Here is a great article regarding this matter in a more general role…

Online social networking issues

(Questions 1-6)  — Question 1 to be done by end of class next Friday

1. What IS this?   Example
   Area - Deployment of IT applications in an organisation.
   Topic - MDT (Microsoft Development Tools
   Question/Purpose – Is this a suitable tool/approach within NMIT’s IT laptop environment
   Title - The suitability of MDT for deploying NMIT’s laptop environment
2. Context?    Background to your question. Example
   -Awareness of cost to alternative
   -Awareness of need to deal with complex deployment
   -Awareness of availability but underuse of MDT
   Why is this such an important question (to you?)
3. What do I need to know before I really start? Example
   -Background knowledge about the Topic & the Area
   -What you want as a result (’Your goal’)
   Example: Goal = Sucessful deployment, good documentation
   -What resources you will need & where to find them, COST -Example: Hardware, Software, software tutorials, Support in using tools / direction, Scope, Time, Expert knowledge (Knowledge from an expert) / Library Resources, Knowledge of project management, research methods, Knowledge of Project Management, Research Methods
4. (Not going to worry about #4 – Ignore 4 – Makes it easy to remember)
5. What am I going to do, and why am I going to do it this way? (What is my question/goal/how will it be achieved?)
   Research/development approach Example:
   -Case studies of people who have used it
   -Doing it (experiment/prototype)
   -Surveys
   Justifying approach (Did it this way because… (eg., did case studies due to cost effectiveness)
6. Is anyone or anything likely to be damaged by doing this?
   -Partly about IP/copyright
   -Partly about reputation
   -Ethical Considerations
   What could be damaged
   Reputation -
   -Participants
   -Supervisor
   -Yourself
   -The institute
   Confidence -
   Financial -

CONSTRUCTING, VISUALIZING, AND ANALYZING A DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Summary

This article brings to light the concerns and compromises we make, our desire for new technologies, our need for security and our demand for privacy.  How inherently one affects the other and how location aware technologies and now access to federal databases, good or bad erode our right to privacy in a number of ways and finding that balance is difficult with today’s problems.

The article introduces software called “Big Foot” (Specialised software created for research) and they demonstrate how multiple digital personae’s can be created from using data we leave behind which becomes our unique “digital footprint” (Defined further in the article). By using “Big Foot” on an individual from a certain date/time frame “Big Foot” is able to construct what that individual did over that time period and how that data is used for different possibilities including the hunt for terrorists. They also allow us to see that technology itself is not evil but how we may apply it and how that impact will have on future societies.

Questions

a)      The title is “Constructing, visualising, and analyzing a digital footprint”. From the wording of the title without reading the article I can guess that it has something to do with building something and being able to view or see an image and then study or looking at in greater detail with a “Digital Footprint”.  After reading the complete article and rereading the abstract I can honestly say that is was well written and concise. It enticed me with enough for me to want to read further.

b)      The paper was written by Stephen D Weaver and Mark Gahegan. I Googled both authors and found that they have written quite a few papers in the scientific arena and have co authored papers together before.  Stephen Weaver is a doctoral candidate in geography at The Pennsylvania State University and Dr Gahegan is a professor of geography.  Also this article was written in the Geographical Review. I found that with this knowledge and what they had to say I found them to be credible to the extent I began telling people about this article.

c)       I thought the abstract on this article was well written and enticed me enough that I wanted to read further. It was well written that it had you already debating in your head to the questions it posed and left you wanting to know more.

d)      The authors collected and synthesised data, they posted several research questions on how the data should be displayed and visualised and which aspects of the behaviour and persona are well represented in the data, and which are not? Is it possible to create hypothetical digital personae and find them in the database? What kinds of errors and uncertainties in the data may cause incorrect interpretation of activities by a third party? They investigated these and other questions using a custom-built software application that facilitated visualisation and analysis of the digital footprint, then developed several plausible activity scenarios to facilitate discussion of the implications of new dimensions of personal data-for example, location-being linked to traditional point-of-sale (pos) and demographic data.

e)      The paper was definitely well worth reading I learned that without control in some manner over new technologies used in the name of security it will erode our privacy. There has to be some type of watchdog looking at the big picture so the little man on the street is not bullied into excepting new security measures because it has been told to them that it’s the only way to help the “Fight” and not been told that by accepting these measures he now gives up just that little more of what he considers his right to privacy. The article was extremely enlightening on what a “Digital Footprint” and what it was made up from. Even as an I.T student we tend to forget the extent we use digital technology in our daily lives. As an example a “Digital Footprint” can be made up from credit or debit cards, cash transactions with supermarkets, video renters, and other assorted retail businesses, “cashed” personal checks, transactions conducted at automated teller machines (ATMS), online payments, and electronic deposits and fund transfers to bank accounts, transactions with libraries, film renters, and insurance companies; legal and medical histories; and professional, religious, and volunteer affiliations, in-car navigation systems, Cell phones, various forms of emergency assistance, remote diagnostics, stolen-vehicle tracking, driving directions, a personal concierge that can book hotels or suggest entertainment destinations, navigation systems for the visually impaired These systems are designed to be self-contained and portable-that is, wearable-and help visually impaired individuals to navigate safely through familiar and unfamiliar settings without the assistance of additional guides. Its incredible how all this is tracked and we do not even think about it. In the article a further reference was made that no information was ever wasted. For example a businessman has a breakfast where it is recorded what he ate… This alone we think as not a big deal but then think about it from a business point of view. Say a health insurance company was able to get that information and saw that the man had a double big Mac at McDonalds and this was a regular event, they may interrupt this as the man eating unhealthily and the health implications associated with such a diet and put up his premiums or decide not to insure him.  So knowing all this now I think the article has made me aware and I am able to look more carefully at the bigger picture.

f)       Yes I believe the results and findings of this paper. It was well written and all information was clearly given. It was well reference with over 60 credible looking references.

g)      The Authors I believe used a Social Science Interpretive method in their research. Looking back to how they conducted their research I think this was the right method.

h)      I learned that nothing I do really goes undetected. I learned that we live in a wonderful age of technology but I don’t think we are at all aware how far technology is being used to monitor EVERYTHING. I think we must become more self-aware so that we can make informed choices of what we choose to ALLOW to be monitored.  We should be made aware at Point Of Sale that certain devices/software and some everyday items such as debit/credit cards, GPS and navigation can and will be used to monitor us.

• How will you do your research?
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      • What do you want to know?
      • (i.e., What is your purpose?
      • What is your research question?)

The above should be able to be found in the following points 1 & 2 from the Abstract of a paper:

Abstract

1. What this is / the question?
2. How did they do the research?
3. What did they find?

Choosing most appropriate approach is VERY important to the sucess of your project.

 

Behold it’s beauty

Class Work – Beam Me up, Ömer

What is the purpose of the research being discovered?

Explore Turkish Appropriation of American Culture (particually in movies/television)

What did the research do?

He tried to show us…. “wider debates on the transnational flows of media and the overlapping, intersecting nature of cultural productions” (I. R. Smith, 2008)

— multinational: involving or operating in several nations or nationalities

Anti-aging Rights in Human Nature

What is Purpose

This paper examines the moral arguments of the A. de Grey, and how The author thinks he lacks moral understanding on this issue.

It is examining moral arguments offered by prominent figure Arbury de Grey, and saying they are useless.

What did research do?

(Examining a paper offered by Arbury de Grey, saying you shouldn’t just let yourself die, aim to live forever… and the researcher ripping it to shreds)

…

Iain Robert Smith. (2008). “Beam Me up, Ömer”:Transnational Media Flow and the Cultural Politics of the Turkish Star Trek Remake. Velvet Light Trap,(61), 3-13. Retrieved April 2, 2009, from Academic Research Library database. (Document ID: 1443821321).

Thomas D Kennedy. (2009). ANTI-AGING, RIGHTS AND HUMAN NATURE. Ethics & Medicine, 25(1), 21-29,3. Retrieved April 2, 2009, from Health Module database. (Document ID: 1627013541).

2) We first check to see if it has a Title, Authors, affiliation an abstract which is optional, an introduction, a background, a body of the article then a conclusion/ or discussion. Acknowledgements and references. Publisher and date.

3)Critical Appraisal guidelines for single case study research.  Its a strict guideline for a single research study.

4)The abstract did tell us what the paper would consist of. The general area is Research method. The Authors compiled a guideline of best practices. 

5) There were 30 references with the article.There were 14 possible references that looked useful.

6)I stopped at end of references…at the end of the paper

7)I learnt about guidelines for conduct of single care study research.

8)Maybe

9)Nope

10)

Picard as a Borg

1) Benifits to us medically and commercially.

2) How do we or should we regulate this field?

3) How far can we go?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nanotechnology    

This article gives you a very broad look at Nanotechnology .

http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/11/2/314

principles of AC electrokinetics for particle manipulation