I spoke yesterday at ANZCA2013 in Fremantle, Australia about some of my latest work coming out of my PhD research on the philosophy Facebook, radical transparency and privacy in the context of a decade of Facebook (as of next year). A full paper is in the works, but here’s where I’m at so far. Slides Abstract The amount […]
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Privacy in the Age of Facebook: Discourse, Architecture, Consequences
academic californian ideology facebook thesis[Edit 23 May 2014] As of May 2014, my PhD was the 6th most downloaded thesis of all time from Curtin Library’s eSpace. In July, my PhD thesis passed examination. Today, after making the required (thankfully minor) revisions, I submitted the final version to my university! Download [pdf] or access via Curtin Library repository (eSpace) Raynes-Goldie, K. […]
Annotated Bibliography: social network sites, privacy and surveillance
academic annotated bibliography facebook privacy selfsurveillance sns social media surveillance thesisI was invited to write the annotated bibliography on social network sites, privacy and surveillance for the upcoming Cybersurveillance and Everyday Life workshop at the University of Toronto, and they’ve kindly allowed me to share it here. I’ve also included, below, some other resources I’ve found useful for general social network research. [download full annotated […]
Privacy, safety & MMOs for girls
academic children kids mmos privacy social media youthI took a short break from my PhD thesis to spend part of the summer researching autonomy, privacy and social media for kids with Jason Nolan at Ryerson’s EDGE Lab. I had the honour of presenting our findings at the recent DIY Citizenship conference in Toronto. If you weren’t able to check it out, my talk […]
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 […]
Facebook Angst vs. LiveJournal Drama
academic angst drama facebook livejournal thesisA few years ago Fono and I wrote a paper that was basically about LJ drama, even though we gussied it up with a fancy academic title and invoked Baudrillard. The main thing we found was that people had all these different ideas about what being Friends on LiveJournal meant. The main reasons people Friended […]
Teenage cat abuser + Wikipedia’s governance structure = FAIL
academic dusty kenny glenn timmy wikipediaThere’s been a lot of discussion recently on one of the mailing lists I subscribe (the one run by the Institute for Distributed Creativity for anyone keeping track) to about the corruption in Wikipedia’s governance structure, sparked by a recent art project called Wikipedia Art. The “art” (if that’s what it really is… but that […]
Facebook on Peep Show
academic facebook peep show thesisAh, Facebook gets a mention in my new favourite, Peep Show, when Mark makes a deal with an Australian to have her pretend she’s his girlfriend in exchange for letting her stay with him: Mark: So, I could tell people you were my girlfriend? Saz: Well, we might… take things slow, to start with, yeah? […]
The Changing Face of Facebook
academic facebook facebook history thesisOne fascinating thing about Facebook is how much it has changed since it was first launched in 2004. Like the other early social networking sites such as Friendster, Facebook started out with very simple features (check out their early FAQ to see what I mean). But, unlike Friendster and a lot of other sites,* Facebook […]
My first ever Facebook friend
academic facebook thefacebook thesisI’ve started writing the first chapter of my thesis (if you can believe it, because I can’t!). It’s basically all you ever wanted to know about Facebook’s history (especially with respect to its use in Toronto), features and business end. And I’m calling it “Opening Facebook” (har har). Anyway, I was digging through my old […]