Colin McEnroe and his very intelligent students look at the Digital Revolution in media.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
One last thing I need ya to do
Pick anything that interests you on the Courant web site and (try to) leave a comment on it.
2 comments:
Jessica
said...
What a headline! From the title "UConn Gives Millions To Its Foundation: Critic Questions Payments Amid Cutbacks, Fee Hikes," one would expect a breaking scandal. Instead, this front page article reveals only that the University does what most other public universities do...and earns an impressive return on its investment. The Courant has taken a standard practice (which is neither illegal nor clandestine) and made it sound like news. Bravo!
When I went to post this comment per instruction, I was surprised by the information requested and the terms of service; while I’m sure many people hand over the information and just “Agree,” I was not comfortable with it, especially when I read the portions about the “Use of Information by courant.com” and “Governing Law” sections of the privacy policy and terms of service.
I am not naïve enough to think that my information is not collected and used to target advertising to me (just look at my Gmail account!), but the beauty of physical newspapers is that I can avoid giving such information; to write a letter, all I need to include is an address and daytime phone number—not my birthday (which I am hesitant to give out after learning how it can be used to steal your identity) or my email (which would fill up with spam pretty quickly, given I can only check it when I am at a not at work—which is never).
Anyway, I will not be posting any comment under these terms; I have enough stress in my life.
2 comments:
What a headline! From the title "UConn Gives Millions To Its Foundation: Critic Questions Payments Amid Cutbacks, Fee Hikes," one would expect a breaking scandal. Instead, this front page article reveals only that the University does what most other public universities do...and earns an impressive return on its investment. The Courant has taken a standard practice (which is neither illegal nor clandestine) and made it sound like news. Bravo!
When I went to post this comment per instruction, I was surprised by the information requested and the terms of service; while I’m sure many people hand over the information and just “Agree,” I was not comfortable with it, especially when I read the portions about the “Use of Information by courant.com” and “Governing Law” sections of the privacy policy and terms of service.
I am not naïve enough to think that my information is not collected and used to target advertising to me (just look at my Gmail account!), but the beauty of physical newspapers is that I can avoid giving such information; to write a letter, all I need to include is an address and daytime phone number—not my birthday (which I am hesitant to give out after learning how it can be used to steal your identity) or my email (which would fill up with spam pretty quickly, given I can only check it when I am at a not at work—which is never).
Anyway, I will not be posting any comment under these terms; I have enough stress in my life.
Jessica, this is just perfect.
I really want you to talk in class about this, about your reaction to the terms of commenting.
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