Guest Post: What Can You Do About Fake Reviews: The Case of Sunday Riley
Guest Post: What Can You Do About Fake Reviews: The Case of Sunday Riley by Carmen Wong To buy, or to not buy, that is the question…you check out the customer reviews to see what others are saying, but with so many reviews, both good and bad, to filter through, who do you believe and […]
The more things change…
Recently I have been reflecting on how approaches to Internet safety have changed since I was a child in the 90s and early 00s. Back then, it was all Neopets and games on the Disney channel website. In later years (the mid 2000s), my classmates all flocked to personal blogging websites like MySpace, and all […]
Book Review: Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Business
Cybersecurity is Everybody’s Business: Solve the Security Puzzle for Your Small Business and Home Scott N. Schober, with Craig Schober (2019) Digital Tattoo Rating: 4/5 1 2 3 4 5 Leave it on the shelf Give it a skim An informative read Would give to a friend A must read!!! Cybersecurity is Everybody’s […]
Zooming Into Remote Working
To quote every single email I have both sent and received in the past month, we are living in strange times. Many workplaces, schools, and friend groups have had their regular activities disrupted, and human contact is (temporarily) no longer an option. With nowhere else to go, the world has turned online. While there are […]
Guest Post: What’s in a Category: Definitions of Authenticity, Transparency, and the Social-Bot
What’s in a Category: Definitions of Authenticity, Transparency, and the Social-Bot by Nicholas Lindsay Lewis After Surveillance Capitalism, Soshana Zuboff’s 2018 magnum opus on data and the platform economy, it is safe to establish two premises. The first, that the process of identifying users is how social media platforms monetize their operations and the second, that […]
Guest Post: Social Media Lockdown on the Job Hunt: Who is to Blame?
Guest Post: Social Media Lockdown on the Job hunt: Who is to Blame? by Patty Facy It seems as though every millennial who has gone job hunting is aware of the Social Media Lockdown. Close your accounts, hide all mentions of your name, untag yourself from unsavoury photos and content; build a fortress to protect […]
Guest Post: Are Instagram Stories As Safe As You Think?
Guest Post: Are Instagram Stories As Safe As You Think? By Priyaa Sathiyaseelan In the year 2006, Time magazine chose the People of the year to be You – to recognize the millions of people who anonymously contribute user-generated content to Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution. Because without […]
Time for TikTok? Security issues and the meteoric rise of TikTok
After its launch in 2017, video-sharing app TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular apps. Filling the cultural void left by the fall of Vine in 2016, it became beloved by teenagers all over the world almost overnight. Developed by Chinese company ByteDance, the app allows users to upload videos only a few […]
Guest Post: Look at Me! Look at Me!: Instagramming an Altered Version of Ourselves
Guest Post: Look at Me! Look at Me!: Instagramming an Altered Version of Ourselves By Delicia Ansalem Many young people, myself included, rely on social media quite a lot. As a visual platform, it’s easy to share experiences within seconds, sometimes even over-documenting. Overall, a person’s profile and highlights can say a lot about them. […]
Artists’ Series: Implications of the Future: Hito Steyerl’s This is the Future
What does the world feel or look like through the eyes of a drone camera? How has technology changed conflict? Will robots take over the world? How do we contend with the loss of a friend – who’s likeness becomes the symbol of a revolution? How does AI interpret the sound of breaking glass? These […]
