In Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Sabrina Rubin Erdely discusses the tragic situations Kiki went through after she began expressing herself on MySpace and literally started living an online life. The main question that arise from Kiki’s story is that where is the balance between free speech and privacy online.
The lines between private property and public realm are progressively becoming fainter and weaker as more individuals becomes connected through the internet. In Rachel Kadish’s article Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Screaming, the important point she makes is that, "If your face isn't private property, what is?" (Kadish 262). She is alluding to the self portrait of her cousin, Noam Galai.
Once Galai uploaded the image of his face to his Flickr account, it was downloaded and used by lots of people, who characterized his work of art in ways that he hadn't envisioned. Some people sold T shirts and prints of Galai’s picture for their own profit. …show more content…
Both Kiki and Galai experienced social awkwardness before being on the online world. While most of Kiki’s online experiences were catastrophic, Galai had both benefited and had faced some challenges. Kiki gained enemies, faced threats and got used by others to make profit off of her. Even though Galai didn’t intend for his face to go international, uploading it to Flickr helped many to view his artwork and attained him a lot of admirers and he even got his face published on the National Geographic Magazine without losing his anonymity. The only drawback Galai experienced was that once his image was online several people and companies used his face to make profit without asking him or getting his consent. The fact is that the online media and social networking sites tends to have nearly as many disadvantages as there are
The lines between private property and public realm are progressively becoming fainter and weaker as more individuals becomes connected through the internet. In Rachel Kadish’s article Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Screaming, the important point she makes is that, "If your face isn't private property, what is?" (Kadish 262). She is alluding to the self portrait of her cousin, Noam Galai.
Once Galai uploaded the image of his face to his Flickr account, it was downloaded and used by lots of people, who characterized his work of art in ways that he hadn't envisioned. Some people sold T shirts and prints of Galai’s picture for their own profit. …show more content…
Both Kiki and Galai experienced social awkwardness before being on the online world. While most of Kiki’s online experiences were catastrophic, Galai had both benefited and had faced some challenges. Kiki gained enemies, faced threats and got used by others to make profit off of her. Even though Galai didn’t intend for his face to go international, uploading it to Flickr helped many to view his artwork and attained him a lot of admirers and he even got his face published on the National Geographic Magazine without losing his anonymity. The only drawback Galai experienced was that once his image was online several people and companies used his face to make profit without asking him or getting his consent. The fact is that the online media and social networking sites tends to have nearly as many disadvantages as there are