[This is another brain dump of a core piece of my PhD research on Facebook and privacy. Huge thanks to Phil Moore, one of my advisors and an ethnographic guru, for helping me think this all out and make the connections.] While it may seem that they are one and the same, there is an important distinction […]
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The Philosophy of Facebook (or, the real reason Facebook doesn’t care about privacy)
academic californian ideology cybernetics facebook philosophy of facebook thesisUpdate: This is an early brain dump of some of the core concepts in my PhD thesis, which I’ve now completed. For a more fleshed out version of this, please see my dissertation, which can be downloaded here. To say that Facebook does not care about privacy is really only half the story. Maybe even […]
Facebook vs Facebook: The Movie
academic academic facebook sns socialtechnology socialweb thefacebook thesisI just came back from seeing The Social Network on opening night, in a packed theatre complete with a Tweetup filling the first two rows. I was impressed (especially after reading the rather disappointing ‘The Accidental Billionaires,’ the book the film was based on). But you can go read another much more excellent blog post about […]