After attending the last three Chinwag events, which I would highly recommend, I’ve been asked to speak on a panel at the June event which is mysteriously title “The dark side of social media”. We’ll be talking about elements of social media that hit the headlines (and sometimes not) for the wrong reasons: -
- Identity theft
- Libel
- Stalking
- Scurrilous behaviour
and I’m sure much more. One interesting element of this from a community perspective is how do you decide where the censorship line is to be drawn? Unacceptable language in the Cbeebies community would be perfectly OK in the Quentin Tarantino discussion forum. Also, how we make the back end systems more intelligent in automatically reducing the chances of publishers displaying incorrect/libelous/offensive material on their sites?
So come along to the event, they are always great fun and lively conversations that involve the audience as well, hopefully see you there.
May 6, 2007 at 2:28 pm |
Glad you’re going to be joining us for this event, Mike. I think it’s going to be a good one, especially as we’re coming out of the honeymoon period for social media.
In addition to the points you mention above, I hope we get a chance to delve into the way groups can manipulate and affect agendas using social media, and not necessarily in a good way. In particular how activists can hijack social media platforms, or push their adversaries into views which are much more extreme than they’d otherwise take, because a response can be made so quickly.
Should be a good session!