C6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, September 8, 1999 FALL INSTRUCHON/BACK TO SCHOOL T echnologies and privacy handyman The age of m edia aw areness By Jan D'Arcy The Media Awareness Network has a large Web site on SchoolNet (www.schoolnet.ca/medi- anet) that provides media education for home, school and community use. MNet's site focuses on some of today's most pressing social prob lems associated with children being socialized by a strong media culture. Major technological advances have occurred in the past 25 years, and we are only now start ing to contemplate how these changes have affected our lives, our work and our relation ships. In yesterday's print-based world, we had worked out some of the ground rules--rules which guided our approaches to authorship and copyright, and our relationships to political structures and to each other. We had developed a print-based education system and expected our children would spend a minimum of 12 or more years of their lives learning and studying in that system. During that era, which roughly covers the first 75 years of this century, the major communica tions industries were neatly separated from each other by the technologies they used. Competition was specific to the technology sphere within which each medium functioned, and information collected on consumer patterns was also segre gated. Turf, so to speak, protected each medium from the other. It also protected the citizen from the full impact of the advantages and disadvan tages we have in today's wired world. Most of us understand that our patterns of consumption today are fueled by global advertis ing in global markets for globally produced goods. As consumers of commercial culture, we have the sense that we cannot escape from the world's ubiquitous electronic marketplace. But many of us do not know that something quite dif ferent is now at play, just below the surface of the new technology waters. In the past 20 or so years, sophisticated, indi vidualized data collection has become the norm--not a by-product, but a central activity of the technology revolution that's been taking place. Imagine that students at your school have identification cards with microprocessor chips that store information. Every time they borrow a book from the library, the card is scanned, and your computer screen reveals the students' per sonal health information, their school records and the books they've borrowed in the last two years. Among other things, your school board uses this database to track reading trends for future book orders. Analyzing your digital trails The fact is, almost everything you do is now recorded. Your cash and credit cards leave digital trails, which means that over time, your buying patterns can be analyzed. Your phone calls and e- mail leave the telltale story of who you know, where they live and how often you communicate with them. Pay-per-view entertainment, a video rented from the corner store or idle surfing for fun online all offer revealing information about your home entertainment preferences on a long winter's Saturday night. Your health information, recent hospital tests, the marriage councilor you visited, your dental work done last week, your driving record, where you work and what you earn, your political and charitable donations, your marital status, your travel activities, last month's drug prescription--all this information is collected and stored. It may have your name on it. This same kind of information--about your children or your siblings, your spouse or your parents, all this and more--is mercilessly becoming "digitized," stored and catalogued by powerful computers. Most of this personal infor mation about you can be collected, collated, compared, matched and sometimes mismatched and sold without any regulation. Those smart cards being used by your stu dents to get a book from the library are just the preliminaries of the digitized database that will be built up over their lifetime. One's personal information, collected from birth, may never be used maliciously, but it could be, and as things now stand, we would have little control over it. The Media Awareness Netw ork W eb site Teacher-librarians can learn more about how the media and new technologies are affecting our lives and how to introduce these topics in the classroom. The Media Awareness Network World Wide Web site offers well-organized information and teaching units on privacy and a myriad of other topics which have suddenly become not only pertinent, but a prerequisite to understanding our information culture--in other words, an essential part of a new definition of lit eracy. Topics covered on the Media Awareness Network site include: marketing and con sumerism; the influences of media violence; body image and the fashion industry; the media's interpretation of Canada's peacekeeping role; and bias in journalism--topics which give imme diacy and relevance to teaching traditional sub jects across the curriculum. We're here for teach ers, so please check us out and participate! MNet has been generously supported by National Film Board of Canada, Bell Canada, Shaw Communications, Stentor, CBC, Government of Canada and Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development For more information please send e-mail to Jan D'Arcy. (Jan D'Arcy is co-director of the Media Awareness Network.) ABANDONED Rubbish Re- moval- Clean-ups- Dispo sals- Demolitions- Tree Cutting. Bobcat Services. 8-yrs experience. Ted, Phone: (905)469-2962 ^ painting & decorating How to get involved with the Junior Achievement program (NC)--"JA". People always recognize the name. 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