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Privacy and Identity in the Age of Facebook

Admission is free.

Have we given up our privacy to maintain a public identity? How have the lines between our public and private lives blurred with the rise of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social-networking sites that have made it so easy to inform the world of our every move, from daily banalities to emotional breakups? A panel discussion moderated by Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USC’s Annenberg School, will examine whether we can control our unique identities when the Internet makes it so easy for others to participate in how we communicate about ourselves to the world. The discussion will feature danah boyd, a
social-media researcher for Microsoft; Henry Jenkins, the provost’s professor of communications, journalism and cinematic arts at USC; and new-media artist Nathan Ruyle, an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts.

Organized by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski