scholarly journals Teachers and Social Networking Sites: Think Before You Post

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Charles Russo ◽  
Joan Squelch ◽  
Sally Elizabeth Anne Varnham
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Professional Misconduct ◽  
The Us ◽  
Information Professional ◽  
Professional Codes

Social networking sites are highly popular and have profoundly changed the way people, including educators, communicate and interact. For many teachers the use of Facebook and MySpace is seen as a valuable educational tool and an integral part of their private social interaction. However, the exponential growth in the use of social networking sites by students and teachers alike has presented new legal, ethical and professional challenges for teachers and school administrators. Teachers might argue that their social networking sites are personal websites but they are ultimately very public spaces that leave an electronic trail that can have serious, albeit unintended, consequences for teachers who breach professional codes of conduct and education laws. Teachers face the risk of censured speech, professional misconduct and possible dismissal for posting inappropriate information including comments and pictures on these websites. The purpose of this article is to examine the legal and professional risks for teachers using social networking sites and it offers suggestions that school administrators might incorporate in their policies with regard to teachers’ use of social networking sites. The first part of the article reviews relevant US cases and the second part focuses on the following legal issues – free speech, privacy and security of information, professional conduct, and the implications for teachers and school administrators in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Included in the second part are some practical recommendations for teachers and their lawyers as they develop policies addressing the use of social networking websites in the educational workplace.

A Case of Academic Social Networking Sites Usage in Malaysia

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Salahshour ◽  
Halina Mohamed Dahlan ◽  
Noorminshah A. Iahad
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
New Type ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Social networking tools have become an integral part of our daily lives. Recently, a new type of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) namely Academic Social Networking sites (ASNSs) has attracted global users. There is perceived usefulness on the impact of ASNSs on patterns of academic research activities. However, it remains unclear why some researchers do not use ASNSs at all. The purpose of this paper is therefore to explore the ASNSs usage among Malaysian academic researchers and to investigate benefits, specific purpose, drivers and barriers of using ASNSs. A total of 210 completed cases were collected through paper-based and online-based questionnaire. In order to show the outcome of the research, descriptive interpretation of data is performed. The overall findings of this research indicate that there is low rate of ASNSs usage among researchers. In addition, the results show that colleagues, attitude toward technology and communication benefits are the drivers to use ASNSs and trust, privacy and security are the common barriers regarding to use ASNSs.

Conceptualizing Codes of Conduct in Social Networking Communities

2010 ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Ann Dutton Ewbank ◽  
Adam G. Kay ◽  
Teresa S. Foulger ◽  
Heather L. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter reviews the capabilities of social networking tools and links those capabilities to recent legal and ethical controversies involving use of social networking tools such as Facebook and MySpace. A social cognitive moral framework is applied to explore and analyze the ethical issues present in these incidents. Three ethical vulnerabilities are identified in the use of social networking tools: 1) the medium provides a magnified forum for public humiliation or hazing, 2) a blurring of boundaries exists between private and public information on social networking sites, and 3) the medium merges individuals’ professional and non-professional identities. Prevalent legal and social responses to these kinds of incidents are considered and implications are suggested for encouraging responsible use. The chapter includes a description of the authors’ current research with preservice students involving an intervention whereby students read and think about real cases where educators use social networking. The intervention was created to improve students’ critical thinking about the ethical issues involved. Recommendations for applying institutional codes of conduct to ethical dilemmas involving online tools are discussed.

User-Friendly Security Patterns for Designing Social Network Websites

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Alemerien
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Patterns ◽  
User Friendly

The number of users in Social Networking Sites (SNSs) is increasing exponentially. As a result, several security and privacy problems in SNSs have appeared. Part of these problems is caused by insecure Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Therefore, the developers of SNSs should take into account the balance between security and usability aspects during the development process. This paper proposes a set of user-friendly security patterns to help SNS developers to design interactive environments which protect the privacy and security of individuals while being highly user friendly. The authors proposed four patterns and evaluated them against the Facebook interfaces. The authors found that participants accepted the interfaces constructed through the proposed patterns more willingly than the Facebook interfaces.

scholarly journals Impact of Social Networking Sites on Human Basic Privacy Rights

2018 ◽  
Vol I (I) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Javeria Nazeer ◽  
Muhammad Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
Privacy Rights ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The Impact

In recent era, Social networking sites (SNSs) have become an important source of communication and also became a matter of interest for researchers in several disciplines such as communications, technology and sociology. As SNSs are spreading rapidly, new issues regarding privacy and security are also raising. These Social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter etc. often reveal private data through the enclosure of public profiles, photographs, videos and messages send to the family, friends and general public. That is why the researcher is concerned to investigate the impact of Social networking sites (SNSs) on human basic privacy rights. As it was not possible to conduct a survey in complete population, therefore sample of 250 respondents (50% males & 50% females) was selected from different universities and colleges of Lahore, city of Pakistan. In the process of survey, questionnaire technique has been used to obtain the quantitative data. The findings revealed that Social Networking Sites significantly violate the human basic privacy rights. Majority of the respondents were of the view that privacy rights are harmed by SNSs. 10.4% respondents were strongly disagreeing about the statement that Facebook privacy is a real problem, 18.0% were disagree, 20.4% were neutral about the problem while 38.4% said they are agreed and 12.8% were strongly agree. The results also suggested that social networking sites leak personal data and also become a reason for disclosure of personal information. Hence, it is necessary when a user involves in the Social networking site he/she should be aware and vigilant of the privacy and security risks.

Privacy Policy Improvements to Protect Children Privacy

2011 ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Federica Casarosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Privacy Policy ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Specific Element ◽  
The Us ◽  
Open The Doors

The achievement of an adequate level of privacy protection is a demanding objective, especially for new technologies. One relatively new but increasing class of users of Internet related services consists of children and young people. However, if Internet services can improve social skills and widen the knowledge minors have, it could open the doors to privacy abuse and misuse. As it would not be feasible to address all the legal and technical tools available within the privacy protection process, this chapter will focus on a specific element required by regulation and applicable both in Europe and in the US: the inclusion of a privacy policy in any website that collects personal data from users. The paper will provide an analysis of some of the privacy policies available online provided by companies that focus specifically on children and by social networking sites. The analysis will couple the descriptive part with suggestions to improve the level of compliance and, consequentially, the level of protection for minors’ privacy.

Conceptualizing Codes of Conduct in Social Networking Communities

2010 ◽  
pp. 2096-2112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Dutton Ewbank ◽  
Adam G. Kay ◽  
Teresa S. Foulger ◽  
Heather L. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Social Networking Tools

This chapter reviews the capabilities of social networking tools and links those capabilities to recent legal and ethical controversies involving use of social networking tools such as Facebook and MySpace. A social cognitive moral framework is applied to explore and analyze the ethical issues present in these incidents. Three ethical vulnerabilities are identified in the use of social networking tools: 1) the medium provides a magnified forum for public humiliation or hazing, 2) a blurring of boundaries exists between private and public information on social networking sites, and 3) the medium merges individuals’ professional and non-professional identities. Prevalent legal and social responses to these kinds of incidents are considered and implications are suggested for encouraging responsible use. The chapter includes a description of the authors’ current research with preservice students involving an intervention whereby students read and think about real cases where educators use social networking. The intervention was created to improve students’ critical thinking about the ethical issues involved. Recommendations for applying institutional codes of conduct to ethical dilemmas involving online tools are discussed.

Identity, Credibility, and Trust in Social Networking Sites

2013 ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Manca ◽  
Maria Ranieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Privacy Threats ◽  
Digital Environments

Over recent years, the notions of identity, credibility and trust in digital contexts have been gaining renewed interest from scholars in different fields (from social studies to engineering and computer science), especially for their consequences for privacy and security. Emerging and urgent questions are: What does the management of online personal data entail? How much personal information are we entitled to share with others? What measures do people usually adopt to protect their identity and privacy? Are they always aware of the risks they may run? What consequences may emerge in the long term if cautions are ignored? These are some of the questions that should be addressed by users, experts and scholars engaged with digital environments, especially social networking sites. This chapter focuses on these issues trying to provide a wide overview of the current literature on identity, credibility and trust, and their implications for privacy and security, from the perspective of social and behavioral sciences. Some measures provided by experts on how to protect against the most common security and privacy threats are also outlined.

Policing through social networking

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F Aiello
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Community Oriented Policing ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Municipal Police ◽  
Law Enforcement Management

Researchers are starting to explore predictive models for departmental usage of opportunities to self-represent online. This is the first study to independently address police social networking in the US across a variety of social media platforms. Using the sampling frame of the 558 ‘self-representing’ municipal police department respondents in the 2007 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) data, I collected information concerning whether departments maintained active accounts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in 2014. The LEMAS data provides key independent variables concerning each department’s community-oriented policing commitment and technological sophistication. Ultimately, these organisational features are not predictive of departmental use of any of the three social networking sites.

‘My children tell me it’s so simple’: A mixed-methods approach to understand older non-users’ perceptions of Social Networking Sites

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marika Lüders ◽  
Petter Bae Brandtzæg
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Older People ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Culture Gap ◽  
Group Interviews

While there has been a great deal of research on younger people using Social Networking Sites (SNSs), there has been less work on older people and non-users. We present a mixed-methods design with a technology-acceptance survey and focus-group interviews to study older Norwegian non-users’ perceptions of SNSs. Our study reveals that most non-users in our sample deliberately do not use SNSs. They perceive SNS communication as cold and narcissistic and view the usefulness of SNSs to be low. This finding indicates a generational culture gap in how young versus older people experience SNSs. Privacy and security concerns are also prevalent. Non-users, expressing an interest in SNSs, believe SNSs could increase contact with family and friends, but perceive lack of competence to be a barrier.

scholarly journals The Security, Privacy, and Ethical Implications of Social Networking Sites

2015 ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
M. J. Warren ◽  
S. Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The Media

The chapter investigates the security and ethical issues relating to privacy and security. This chapter also examines the ethical issues of new forms of bullying that are being played out weekly in the media: cyber bulling, specifically on SNS such as Facebook. The traditional and direct forms of bullying are being replaced by consistent abuse via SNS due to the ease and accessibility of these new forms of communications.

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