http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/high-school-expels-student-tweeting-f-word-204216086.html
This article explores the story of Austin Carroll, a senior at Garrett High school in Indiana, who got expelled for tweeting the F-word.
1)How does the student believe his privacy was violated?
2)How does the author appeal to both sides?
3)How does this relate to our course theme of Public vs. Private?
This article is opinionated and argues both sides vaguely. The student believes his privacy is being violated because the school took action because of an explicit tweet from his private twitter account. This tweet was not suggesting harm to anyone or offensive to anyone in particular.
ReplyDeleteThis also ties into how it relates to our course theme. It suggests that someones private account to a media outlet could be used against someone in a public school. In this case, the school took serious action by expelling a student because of a tweet that was sent on Carroll's own time and opinions that did not reflect information about the school.
The author appeals to both sides by quoting Carroll directly about the ordeal. To balance that, the article makes the audience infer that the student is a "trouble maker" in the school and has past experience of causing disruption. This is an opinion, although readers of this article make their own judgement.
In this case, the school could be seen as "the public" whereas, the students twitter account is "private." In this example, the public is invading the students privacy via looking up the student's tweets on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteThe author appeals to both sides in the article, however, the author is slightly biased in favor of the student. The article uses an interview to see the student's story, and also interviewed the principal of the school to get their side. To show bias, the author uses quotes including sarcasm, such as "It may well be that Carroll's tweet didn't represent the highest type of wit. Some might conclude, though, that the principal of Garrett High School is a very particular type of wit indeed." The author also seems to enjoy poking fun at the principal, further incorporating slight biases into his argument.
This relates to our course theme because in this instance, we see something that could be perceived as private (tweets) essentially being invaded and put out into the public view (the principal).
I agree with you that the author is a little bit biased to the student. I agree with what the student said that tweeter account is his personal information and what he said should be none of their bussiness. It is just as you said, tweeter account can be regarded as peron's privacy while the school is public. I think the author is criticizing the principal of the school by using sarcasm.
DeleteThe student believes that he can do whatever he wants to do in his personal time on his personal computer within his personal account and what he does absolutely has nothing to do with the school. But he was expelled by school because he puts f words in his tweet; he thinks the school interferences his privacy.
ReplyDeleteThe author explains the whole thing, reveals how the school noticed this issue, and points out some possible reasons that the student gets to know and remember this word, discusses both sides’ views, but the author never expresses his own opinion about this issue.
This relates to our theme, because it presents a complicated situation in front of us. School’s watchdog system can track students’ personal accounts’ activities if they were logged in at school. That makes Privacy non-private anymore. But the student’s angry expression is kind of offensive to public, which is the why the school takes action.
To start it is definitely worth nothing that this article seems to have a slight bias and kind of mocks the school for doing what they did because of this kids so called "silly, profane tweet." The article has this bias in it because it is written by the tech friendly site CNET, which clearly wouldn't agree with a school checking on students tweets. But it is a fact of reality that school, employers, and other entities check social networks all the time. the student believes that his privacy was violated by the school looking at his tweets but the reality is that anything you put on the internet can be seen by anyone, believe that. The author attempts to reason the expulsion by suggesting that the student had been a trouble maker in the past but still clearly pokes fun at what they see as a ridiculous expulsion. This relates to our course theme because the students private thoughts(which he made public but thought were private) were invaded by the schools very public suspension.
ReplyDeleteGreat quote in the first couple lines. SOmething that should be built off of. Why is the author coming off as so strong, in other words why does it help his point that he is so biased. One thing that should be built off more that you did say is about his past. Almost feels like the article is making up for his past by backing him to an extreme to get their point across.
DeleteRandom thought, the hyperlink in the article labeled "an essay by Adam Mansbach" is an interesting read if you have like 10 minutes to kill. Just make sure you start on page one instead of page 3 like it links you to
ReplyDeleteThis article reveals that privacy has been invaded by public. The school represents the public and they use watchdog system to detect student’s activity when they log in their private account in school.
ReplyDeleteAuthor seems to support the student because author argue that “It would be natural to suspect that the school had tired a little of Carroll. However, even if the school could prove that he tweeted a few naughty words on its own computers, was the only option expulsion?” His view seems to be biased against the school’s behavior.
I agree with Tyler, although this article presents both sides of the argument, it seems as though the article is taking the side of the student. It wasn’t a tweet directly offending anyone in the school and it was not offending the school itself, it was merely defining the diversity of the “f-word”. Yet the student must realize that future employers can also see that at any hour as well. This relates to our course theme because the student presented his private thoughts onto a public social media sight for many people to see. For him to argue, "If my account is on my own personal account, I don't think the school or anybody should be looking at it. Because it's my own personal stuff and it's none of their business” was not the best argument to make because he willingly put his ideas into the public. But at the same time, we all have the right to freedom of speech and he was just exercising this right.
ReplyDeleteTHe student believe that his rights are violated because he is posting something online that is suppose to be his private space and he is also posting it in his house, which is also suppose to be a private space. However, the school, which is a public place, got the information. Meaning his private post in his private space is no long private because the school had accesse to it.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with my classmates, that the author does lean toward the student. I think that although the article presents a negative side of the student, the author is using that as a tool to close up any gap that the reader might disagree with. And with that, the negative part about the student is mearly two to three sentences out of the whole essay. So the author just touched on the other side of the arugment and never went back to it.
This relates to our course theme because school being a public sphere is getting information from a private place. Either that be the online message or the fact that it was posted in his house at night.
As most of you have mentioned, this article is biased in some sense because the author tends to defend the student, how does he do it and is it persasive?(Look into the paragraphs "Could the school have not...""Might the school...""Might he...")
ReplyDeleteAfter the author asks us, if expulsion was the only option, the next three paragraphs all deal with other possible options to punish the student's behavior. Like you already pointed out they all start with "Could...?" or "Might...?". This shows that the author wants to show that there are better options to handle this incident. Also by formulating these possibilities in questions, the author involves the reader and appeals to his/her conscience and sympathy. He tries to persuade the reader that the High School's decision was wrong and that there are more educative and more helpful ways to solve such a behavior. The opportunities the author gives are persuasive because they all relate to educative things, which make the reader think, that this really might have been a better option. For that reason this article is persuasive.
DeleteThe student believes that his privacy was violated because the school went onto his twitter and suspended him for a word he used at his house. He believes that school shouldn't have access to his account or be looking at it for that matter. He believes his home is his private place and feels violated for that matter.
ReplyDeleteThe author does show bias in this matter and just like everyone else said it is for the student. The best examples of this was a direct quote from the kid. The author never gives direct quotes from the principal. This gives an impression of a heirachy in the article on how the student is above the principal. Also when the author almost questions the judgement and actions of the school by saying couldn't he have done this instead. All the examples use the F word and shows how its a word that can be used for almost anything. Showing bias towards the word being used.
This relates to our course theme of public verse private. The school is the public setting while the twitter account was a private area. The public went into the private account and made it public. One could argue that once the tweet was out it was public, but with how the author describes he is focusing on the matter about the account.
This article "High school expels student for tweeting f-word" by Chris Matyszczyk deals with a student's expulsion because he tweeted the f-word.
ReplyDeleteThe student argues that his privacy was invaded because he tweeted this word from a computer at home and not from a school computer. He brings forward the argument that what he tweets is his "own personal stuff and it's none of [the school's] business".
The author clearly appeals more to the student's opinion and against his expulsion. You can notice this, because the author states that there could have been different ways to punish the student like making him recite some literature at morning assembly. Furthermore he says that "the principal of Garrett High School is a very particular type of wit indeed". This shows that the author is definitely biased and thinks that expulsion was not the right way to solve this incident. He only gives one evidence which could be a little supportive for the High School. This evidence is that the author point out, that the student was a little eccentric and that he already had been warned because of his tweets.
This article relates to our course theme, because the High School, which is a public institution, invaded the student's privacy by controlling his tweets. Furthermore the student was punished for something that took place in a private space (at his home) and because of private decisions (tweeting something).
Because of the nature of Twitter and his inappropriate use of it I personally believe there was no privacy to invade. This was rather the obscene use of language being spilt into a public domain and quite frankly, someone was tired of dealing with this kid so someone reported him. Typically when I see immature comments like this on Facebook I immediately delete them off of it. I have no tolerance for people who have nothing better to say other than a series of swear words. The school taught him a valuable lesson in expelling him though. I am sure he will not post anything so rediculous on the internet again (unless his intelligence continues to elude him).
DeleteThis student believes his privacy was invaded because the school looked at his tweet on his private account. He also feels as though the school should not be able to look at his tweets that were expressed while he was in his private home.
ReplyDeleteThe author appeals to both sides by looking into reports of what the school had to say about the student as well as how he felt about it and how other students feel about it. He states, "It would be natural to suspect that the school had somewhat tired of Carrol." It seems as though the Carrol had been in trouble at various times during the year and the school did not want to deal with his issues. On the other hand the author states that expulsion is not the only way the school could handle the situation and pretty obviously opposes the punishment.
This article relates to our theme because it is representative of public invading privacy. The "public," the school, has invaded this young mans privacy by looking up his tweets. I agree with (boy) Tyler, though, when he states that we really don't have privacy with what we put on the internet. A possible future employer may also have a problem with Carrol's tweet.
I agree with Brittany. The author did try to provide information to support both sides. The article also relates to the class in the form of the public invading the private. The school looked at a private account and expelled the student based on the information found on it.
DeleteThe author doesnt seem to show much bias in the article. He talks about how the student did it on his own time and computer. He also talks about how the school could be getting tired of the students tweets and his actions at school. The student feels that his privacy was invaded because this is own private web site and he should be aloud to say whatever he wants to say on this web site. Also the fact that his teachers can see these tweets is kind of creepy. This is public invading private. The students private space and somewhere where he should be able to put his thoughts out there and not have to worry about getting in trouble at school especially with what he said. The student say anything that was going against another student or threatening to the school. The school seems to be a little immature about this situation the student was a senior in high school and most seniors I know have said the f word or dont have a problem with hearing it. Another thing is that the whole school isnt following this student so its not like everyone in the school was seeing this. This is how the school invaded the students private site that wasnt theirs to be invaded.
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ReplyDeleteThe student thinks that they had their privacy invaded by the school, when the school decided to look at the students tweet. The twitter account is private and the school used the information on it to expelled the student. The author didn't tried to write the article not to be basis providing supporting information.The author uses information to support both sides, giving the feeling of both sides in the article. The article relates to the class theme because the school which represents the public looked at a private twitter account to expel a student.
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