This document discusses two court cases involving students in Pennsylvania who were suspended for creating fake MySpace pages about their principals. The 3rd circuit court judges issued conflicting rulings on the same day about whether the schools had the right to discipline the students. It also discusses debates around student free speech rights online and changing privacy policies on Facebook. The document considers perspectives on having dual identities online versus maintaining a single consistent identity.

1. Free Writing (6/7) What’s on your mind? Write for five minutes.

2. Belief: Individuals are ultimately responsible for their conduct. Following questions: What is responsible online conduct? What do we do about those who act irresponsibly?

3. Two court cases with conflicting rulings Both cases involve students in Pennsylvania who created fake MySpace pages about their principals Both students were suspended and challenged their suspensions in court 3rd circuit court judges issued conflicting rulings on the same day Full court met yesterday (6/3) to resolve

4. 1st Amendment law for students Writer’s Notebook: “Free Speech?” (6/4) Take notes on presentation Double-entry journal on article “Online Venom” (multiple entries) Exit ticket: TBA

5. Exit ticket What’s your opinion? Should schools have the right to discipline students in situations like those described in the article?

6. We’re in the middle of a communication revolution. http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/11/22/does-the-internet-help-cartoon/

7. Hand-copied texts were expensive and slow to produce

8. Movable type / press expands potential audience for texts

9. High-speed printing presses make cheap texts accessible

10. Desktop publishing makes professional-type tools accessible to amateurs

11. Internet makes widespread distribution possible for little / no cost to publisher

13. Believe or Doubt (6/7) It’s okay to have a different personality online than you do in the physical world.

14. Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me under the cover of clothingThey have departed for another city. --Pablo Neruda, “We Are Many”

15. What are the + / -effects of “dual identities” online? Positives Negatives

16. Facebook changed its default privacy settings (again) in April

23. Complicated privacy settings NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html?ref=personaltech

25. Anger from “digerati” “Facebook thinks that it’s just weirdo tech elites like me who are p-----d off. They’re standing firm and trying to justify why what they’re doing is good for everyone. Their attitude has triggered the panic button amongst regulators and all sorts of regulators are starting to sniff around…” dana boyd, 14 May if you’re not angry / you’re just stupid / or you don’t care - AniDifranco, Out of Range

26. New privacy settings structure released on May 26

27. What does Mark Zuckerberg think about privacy? “You have one identity,” he emphasized three times in a single interview with David Kirkpatrick in his book, “The Facebook Effect.” “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” He adds: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

28. Digital Footprint Assignment Moodle