Karen Young

Open Participants 2019, The Network

Digital Surveillance in age of FAGMA- Part 3: Devices and your Privacy

Karen Young on April 25, 2019

So, as consumers participating in a capitalist society, our economy currently depends on our continuous purchase of stuff- the internet of things.How many of our things currently link up to the internet? Over 25 Billion in 2019! And when I say things, I mean everything. Cars, phones, computers, lamps, toasters, sex toys, televisions, refrigerators, as well as services. Your ISP, your utilities, practically anything that uses electricity or generates it is capable of spying on you if it can be hooked up to […]

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Digital Surveillance in the Age of FAGMA-Field Guide Part 2 – How to read a Online Business Privacy Policy

Karen Young on April 22, 2019

Digital Online Surveillance exists because we agreed to allowing our data to be collected by an external source. (I am not counting the facial recognition software that is being used in China to rank and identify people- that is another discussion entirely.) We clicked agree on a policy. But how many of us know what to look for? How do you read those Privacy Policy Statements and Policies that most of us just skip so that you understand exactly what […]

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Digital Surveillance in the age of FAGMA- Field Guide Part 1 Emails

Karen Young on April 16, 2019April 16, 2019

Do you have an email account? GMail or Outlook or Yahoo? Guess what? Unless you are paying money for that free account it does not belong to you. Violating their terms of service means they get to shut you down. They own your information. They can shut you down for any reason. And they do not have to explain. And unless they decide to play nice, your information is gone. Who even knows if they have read it or not?Lesson 1: […]

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Gifs and memes

Karen Young on April 12, 2019April 12, 2019

Is there a difference?Really I am not sure if it matters as it is just another way to tell a short story.Today is Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day.Who knew?And our Daily Digital Alchemy task was to create a short story about grilled cheese.I am a mother of three men. I know alllllll about grilled cheese.When my son is gaming this is the call I get from the basement.He did it the first time as a joke, but now he actually says […]

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Presentation of Selfies in Everyday Internet Life

Karen Young on March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

It's taken me a while to write this post for multiple reasons, life (sick dog, vacation, etc.) and the topic itself. Part of the reason is I did not grow up in a world where a selfie was a thing so the urge to photograph myself is just not bred into me in the way it has been in younger people. A camera, rolls of film, processing the pictures, storing them was actually expensive and time consuming. Photos were not […]

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#dda268 #netnarr Here is Your Unlikely Hero. Go.

Karen Young on February 22, 2019

Can you make any character the heroic center of a story? Try this one..Need a disgusting character for ur fiction? Just sat next to a woman who picked off her fake nails 1 by 1 & then used 1 to pick her teeth.— Alyson Indrunas (@AlysonIndrunas) April 13, 2017Take this character and write the opening paragraph to a story in which this unlikely person saves the internet from it’s dark, greedy overlords.She stood there, in plain sight, working at separating each of her […]

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Fakeville

Karen Young on February 14, 2019February 14, 2019

So here is my trigger. The latest move by New York to allow women to control their bodies and allow abortion at any stage to protect their physical health has stirred up a whole host of friends within my social network to post nonsense about late term abortion and just abortion in general. A big issue for me as a woman, as a mother and as an human being. I'm pro-choice-who else is going to advocate for my health except […]

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The dark side

Karen Young on February 8, 2019

I will miss all or most of the in class activities since I am on the dark side of the planet, while it is still early evening for all of the students at Kean University. So I was unable to participate in either the Twitter chat about Zeynep Tufekci's Ted Talk or the vistual chat with Chris Gilliard.But I am also in the dark about many of the technologies used to surveil us (I've just made surveillance into a verb-sorry!) […]

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Where Am I (And Where Am I Not?)

Karen Young on January 30, 2019January 30, 2019

At the start of any course these days, I am always a lurker. I don't engage immediately because I need to read the ground rules, figure out what is going on and hopefully engage my brain before my mouth (or my fingers.) When I was younger I used to engage right away, without knowing the rules sometimes with very good results but not always. As with any medium where we are engaging with fellow learners, we're human, we make mistakes […]

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How I see the web

Karen Young on January 27, 2019January 27, 2019

My idea of the webSo #netnarr people this is me with my laptop in Latvia, my current home until my husband (or the army) decides it's time to go somewhere else. I use the internet to regularly talk to my children, parents and friends. These are the relationships that keep me sane and allow me to just say, "Sure honey, I'll just pack up and we'll go." (Not that I don't get upset with the moves but hey that's life!) […]

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Hitching up to Netnarr

Karen Young on January 27, 2019

So day one and half of getting into Digital Alchemy and Networked Narratives ( I am counting finding the Internet Mapping project as part of my half day as I don't have a printer hooked up to this computer and I need my husband to print it off which sounds so lame. But we've already blown one motherboard hooking up the printer since we've moved to Europe! And of course, I ask him after he has printed it the first […]

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