This is an article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization concerned with digital rights. The article describes how to protect your privacy while using Facebook and its new feature "Places". Think about data mining and how these kinds of applications are affecting our personal space.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/how-protect-your-privacy-facebook-places
Okay, I'm taking a stab at this.
ReplyDeleteI have recently read this article on CNN called "Defender of the deep." The way this peace was written seems to have been meant to grab the audience's emotional response by developing this character that we can all sympathize for. It seems like they spend a great amount of time detailing this woman's past as well as discussing how much oil is actually left in the Gulf of Mexico.
I also looked at the side link to the video "How much oil still in Gulf," and from there the BP spokesman rattles off technical jargin in order for the audience not to understand what exactly he is saying. In truth, I think they are trying to mask their failure.
So who do we trust with this information? How much oil IS really left in the Gulf. The CNN piece on Samantha Joye ("who looks like the librarian version of Angelina Jolie") leads me to believe they are trying to manipulate my emotional response to trust in her statements, while the BP spokesman seems to be using his jargin in order to have the audience just blindly agree with him.
I'd like to know anyone's thoughts as to their interpretations.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/24/samantha.joye.gulf.oil/index.html