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Ownership of Content in Your Digital Life – World Wide Web (Part 2)
By Jason Cheung on July 16, 2018 | Tagged with content ownership, copyleft, Data Ownership, GPL, intellectual property, joint intellectual work, shareware, web hosting
What Do You Own on Your Website? In our previous article, we took a look at the content ownership agreements that exist between social media users and the companies behind Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. In short, we learned that as part of the agreement to use their services, users agree to give these companies a […]
Ownership of Content in Your Digital Life – Social Media (Part 1)
By Jason Cheung on July 9, 2018 | Tagged with Content Licensing, Data Capitalism, Data Colonialism, Data for Services, Data Imperialism, Data Merchanting, Data Ownership, Data Payment, Social media, Terms of Service, Third Wave Capitalism, toffler, Value of Data
Snap, Click, Post, Like: the normal rhythm of a social media user, who uses popular social media/sharing sites to broadcast stories from their day-to-day lives to the world. Most users are content with their relationship with social sharing platforms, so long as the service is uninterrupted. Social sharing platforms allow users to share their lives, […]
How to Access Information Collected From Your Digital Accounts
By Jason Cheung on June 11, 2018 | Tagged with Access My Info, Citizen Lab, Data, Digital Security, freedom of information, Munk School of Global Affairs, Office of the privacy commissioner, PIPEDA, privacy, Privacy Act, terms and conditions, transparency
Terms and Conditions – TL;DR: Take My Data Terms and conditions of use often bind users to agreements in unsuspecting ways about the use, storage, sale, transfer, and deletion of their account, data, or identity. Examples include popular software such as Twitter, which stipulates that they can profit from selling your pictures without prior […]
Social Media and Mental Health
By dominique rivera on May 30, 2018 | Tagged with Addiction, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Online Safety, Social media
In 2017 users spent approximately two hours a day on social media. Surprisingly, this amounts to five years and four months of a person’s life spent solely on social media [1] There have been connections made between mental health concerns and social media consumption throughout the years. What is triggering these links with mental […]
Book Review: Managing the Digital You
By victoria mcauley on May 2, 2018 | Tagged with book review, clutter, Data, data detox, digital archiving, Digital Security, educational resource, file management, personal archiving
Managing the Digital You Melody Condron (2017) ________ Digital Tattoo Rating: 4/5 Summary I don’t know about you, but the number of files on my computer has gotten out of control. Every time I have to switch devices, or find a paper from last semester, I realize how poorly I’ve managed the data […]
The Data Detox Challenge
By elyse hill on April 23, 2018 | Tagged with challenge, Data, Digital Security, Online Safety, privacy, Social media
We all know that familiar feeling of having too much clutter; whether it’s in our physical or mental spaces, it can be hard to function efficiently when we’re weighed down by disorder. For this reason, when the Digital Tattoo student team heard about the Data Detox – an 8 day online challenge to […]
Taking Control of your Data
By bryan short on January 5, 2017 | Tagged with Data, Digital Security, Online Safety
In light of my recent exploration of data collection, surveillance, and analysis with UBC’s Learning Management System, Blackboard Connect, I’ve felt empowered to take further control of the data that exists about me online. Below, I’ve identified two of the larger data mining companies, Google and Facebook, and what you can do retrieve, edit, and delete the […]
Oh, snap! Here’s six sneaky Snapchat secrets you might not have heard
By Jon Hernandez on February 2, 2016 | Tagged with Digital Security
One of the most interesting narratives that has emerged in the relatively short lifespan of social media has been the rise of Snapchat. The ephemeral social network has come to threaten the stocks of Facebook and Twitter after narrowly escaping the great Zuckerberg’s grasp (okay, maybe ‘narrowly’ is a bit of an exaggeration, but I’d […]
Stay sharp on social media: 10 LinkedIn Do’s and Don’t’s
By Jon Hernandez on January 20, 2016 | Tagged with
As the last members of the human race that will be able to remember video stores and landlines, millennials are also the first generation to have their entire adult lives recorded by social media. The Generation Y’ers are finally starting to cultivate their professional careers, and keeping up a positive presence and reputation online is the key to making […]
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