The article,”“Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies”by Lindsey C. Kim transforms our thinking regarding privacy among individuals who write online. Rather than considering privacy as a physical concept, she discusses information about privacy data, digital rhetoric, flow. while demonstrating how online writing relates to invisible systems that we cannot see or manipulate. I also enjoyed her comparison with Virginia Woolf in her book “A Room of One’s Own”. That privacy has been required to write a decent work even though the room has been replaced by the internet rather than the solitary room.
The part that impressed me the most was her topic about agency. She demonstrates that the relinquishing power of their data by writers (they often do it unnoticed). Damages their capacity to think, conduct research, and remain skeptical. Concepts such as filter bubbles and algorithmic personalization give way to the explanation that what we see is tailored to us. And this can be silently distracting from the views we are exposed to. This is a huge quandary of academic and civic writing where there are so many perspectives which are required in digital rhetoric.
Kim also presents a helpful way of thinking about the flow of information. She recommends posing questions about the people concerned. The data being shared. And whether the situation is appropriate to the sharing of digital rhetoric. These are the questions that make us start thinking about digital platforms rather than accepting them. I also appreciated the fact that the article does not shift all the blame onto people as well. It displays individual boundaries and emphasizes the necessity of a broader advocacy and policy shift.
Closing thoughts
Overall, Kim encourages authors to consider privacy as an actual, critical component of ethical, attentive, and empowered online writing.
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