Google-Library Challenge Week 5

Apr 14, 2009

Welcome to Week Number 5 Google-Library Challengers! We are on the tail end of our challenge, with just three challenge questions remaining. On the table this week remains three $15 gift cards: one each to iTunes, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Celebration Cinema. Are you ready? Let’s play.

As an aspiring investigative journalist, you make sure to keep your “ears to the ground” in awaiting a great news story, and thus your big break. However, you are also a student of Prof. Blanchard’s Media Law class and understand there are important laws in place regarding personal privacy and the role of the media. Having just finished your paper on the invasion of privacy in our information society, you’re an expert on this matter and know about the Supreme Court case Bartnicki v. Vopper, which was concerned about cell phone surveillance. While researching about this topic of privacy and interactive multimedia, you wrote down the following quote:

“Cell phone users know that they can remain in constant contact with friends and family, but they might be surprised to know that in some locations, for example, their cell phones are being used to track traffic patterns, or that the pings send out by their phones, even when they’re not using them, allow their paths to be traced throughout the course of the day.”


Now you want to use this quote in another paper, but can’t remember where you found it. Yikes! It may have been somewhere online, or in a stack of books you were sorting through, or in a journal somewhere. It had to have been something very recent, but that is all you can remember.

Find the source, and provide the proper citation information (i.e. author, title, publication, page number (if applicable), etc.). Also, tell us where you found it. Send all responses to reference@cornerstone.edu.