Photo-social-network [starter activity]

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This is a visualization activity. The purpose of this activity is to get participants thinking about online consent and data privacy through the medium of permissions and terms of services on the apps they use.

Learning objectives this activity responds to

Who is this activity for?

This activity can be used with participants with different levels of experience with consent and privacy issues online and offline, preferably with access to a device with which they connect to the internet.

Time required

45 minutes, including set up and debrief.

Resources needed for this activity

Mechanics

This is a visualising exercise. Participants will be given post-its and markers to write.

Individual visualization - 15 minutes

First, read out the scenario from the flipchart as follows:

"Say you were the inventor / owner of a popular new photo-based social network (like Instagram). You make money by offering users the ability to advertise their posts to targeted users based on age, location, interest. To operate, you need access to the users' photo gallery. What permissions would you ask for, and what terms of service would you provide information about?"

You could ask the participants to reflect on the following aspects:

Full Group Debrief - 25 minutes

To process, ask them about the exercise and reflections/insights that they have as they were writing.

Some guide questions for the debrief:

You can then reflect upon their responses and discuss them with the group.


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Revision #4
Created 16 April 2023 03:08:52 by Kira
Updated 27 June 2023 12:53:36 by Kira