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Teens on Privacy, Blogging, and First Amendment Rights - And Adult Confusion

ACM News Service: Next Gen Weighs a 'Secure' Future.  Kim Zetter's 2005-04-18 Wired News article gives new meaning to sophistication.  The edited transcription provides a sense of the delight that these young people brought to the session.

The kids' view of RFID tagging of students and of school-imposed filtering and blocking are worth digesting.  It took no thought at all for the kids to figure out how to game the system.  They also point out that the filters don't work, not only because it is possible for kids to work around them, but because they also filter valuable, relevant material.  The suppression of blog access and IM access in schools was also discussed more in the session.

In the audience, I heard repeated observations that these were not your ordinary teen-agers.  I think we should look at this a little differently.  Suppose these are ordinary teen-agers; if we don't see this quality in those around us, maybe it's about the quality of our relationship and not about our ordinary teens.

I think Dana Boyd had a lot to do with having the kids be at ease and open.  I was taken by the respectful way she interacted with them.  I had the sense that she worked with them enough to know what to ask before they paraded to the podium.

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I didn't know about this event until Danah blogged about coming to Seattle to lead the panel.  That was enough to discover that Bruce Schneier was the luncheon speaker that day and I could register for the one day.  It was a day playing hookey from my dissertation project, and I needed it [;<).

posted by orcmid at 4/21/2005 10:12:33 AM