Red Coat, Black Coat In The New York Magazine

The cover of New York Magazine (w/c Feb 5) shows an image of a naked teenager photographing herself. The headline reads, "I am not interested in privacy. Online, I reveal everything – my breakups, my breakfast cereal, my body. My parents call it shameless, I call it freedom."

Reflecting themes highlighted in the Red Coat, Black Coat article Piers Fawkes wrote, the article in the New York magazine looks at ways young people manipulate their data to present their identity – for example, a simple click let’s a teenager’s friends and even her boyfriend, that she’s now single. There’s also a ‘black coat’ example where a woman has tried to hide her identity after a personal video she made for her boyfriend ended up on the web.

Here’s an interesting paragraph:

New York Magazine