Anne L. Pierce, PhD - Hampton University

Definitions of information assurance for the digital arts and humanities emphasize that it ensures:

• Information is available when needed, ie. Copyright permissions have been obtainable quickly.
• Integrity of the information, particularly images, is reliable; resolution is correct and format is usable.
• Authenticity of information on web sites, particularly social networking sites, can be verified.

Artists must maintain control over their work. However museums, galleries and artists themselves post original work to the web to attract clients for sales and scholars to establish credentials.  Because no system is perfectly secure, artists and arts managers must participate in the development of a system of checks and quality controls that allows an organization to trace access where copyright may be violated. Inspections of all inbound and outbound network activity to identify suspicious patterns may indicate someone is attempting to break into or compromise the artist’s work. This presentation will address the promise and pitfalls of social networking for the Arts.

Claude Turner, Ph.D. - Bowie State University
Qing Yuan, Ed.D. - Garrett College

This article discusses the conflicting goals of satisfying the security and privacy of users personal data versus businesses desire to increase profits and the popularity of their business through liberal sharing of information among users. A social networking site typically consists of a variety of cloud computing applications. In cloud computing, data and applications do not reside on the user's machine, but are accessed remotely through a browser over the Internet. Thus, the user's information or data is controlled by the company that owns the social networking site. One of the main criteria that drives the popularity of a social network site is the ease at which information can be shared among users. Unfortunately, this sharing is not always intended, and sometimes information ends up in the heads of undesirable individuals some of whom could use additional techniques, such as data mining, to find even more sensitive information about a specific user. We explore these concerns, and discuss some of the protection measures.

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