I have learned much from last session on how to start designing the wiki. I was quite surprised it looked in order as I attempted to reopen it in my mac at home, too. The group project is on its right track as both Abeer and Naz and I add the finishing touches to our work.
Oh and then I found this article in the Metro about a Gay police officer who has been denied a promotion because of his Facebook flirt. And it really got me thinking about all the issues we raised in our work so far. Royal protection officer Insp Chris Dreyfus lost out on the chance to become a chief inspector when his new employer found he had posted personal information on the social networking website. Accordig to the journalist John Higginson, his page apparently has a sexual nature. The 30 year - old, who is in charge of guarding the Queen and other members of the royal family, admitted on Facebook that he was interested in men and looking for "whatever I can get".
His online identity afforded his bosses the opportunity to be rather indiscreet which then resulted in the blocking of his police promotion. That again brings on the debate of who we are online and whether there is any difference to our real life. That man is simultaneously gay online and gay in his everyday life. But only his online sexual identity, or better to say, the possibility to look into his sexuality within the online context, eventually brought on the trouble. Sometimes then it is not only a question of "who we are online?" but also "who looks us up on who we are online?". And that can have, as in the paradigm of this guy, damaging effects.
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This is an interesting story Dimi - have you been able to find any other sources to confirm it?
Didn't you say it was in the Metro Dimi? I'm sure this story would be libelous if not true so it's probably been ratified.
Isn't the head of the police gay?
Viva la republican revolution!
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