Abstract
Modern databases and digital depositories have the capacity to store vast amounts of information on individuals. In the case of normal everyday affairs, of course, there may be many databases and many organizations involved in collecting information on individuals. There are two types of digital persona possible in these environments - active persona and passive persona (Clarke, 2001). In this paper the authors will report on initial results from an exploratory study on attitudes towards information sharing in Western Australian education and explore the role of active and passive digital persona in information sharing. Many organizations collect information on students, ranging from health, justice, and social security through to education. Sharing information on students is, the authors will argue, essential to our understanding of the momentum of and the future for the digital and educational technology revolution. Students, in future, may want to have their own active digital persona. How these personae are constructed has implications for privacy legislation and how we construe the provision of education.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 49-56 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2005 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 4 Dec 2005 → 7 Dec 2005 Conference number: 22nd https://www.ascilite.org/conferences/brisbane05/proceedings.shtml (Proceedings) |
Conference
| Conference | Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2005 |
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| Abbreviated title | ASCILITE 2005 |
| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Brisbane |
| Period | 4/12/05 → 7/12/05 |
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