I’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 […]
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The downunder Facebook invasion has begun
academic australia facebook perth thesisIt has started. Last year it was all MySpace in Perth, but I’ve started overhearing conversations about Facebook on the street and seeing kids using it on the computers at school. Then this morning, while looking for info on their super gross breakfasts for a top secret project, I found out that Hungry Jack’s (the […]
Toronto: I want my Facebook!
academic facebook thesis torontoThe other day, I was biking up the Bathurst hill and I passed the Telus billboard advertising Facebook mobile on their phones for the upteenth time. Fun fact: Rogers was the first to advertise their Facebook mobile service, followed by Bell and Telus. The billboard reminded me of sign I saw on the window of […]
As seen on Queen West West
academic facebook thesis torontoThere was a rather ratty looking guy with crazy dirty hair carrying a desktop computer, three rods of something, a half exploded tv-like electronic device of some sort and two bags of miscellaneous parts, all while trying to ride a bike… and he was wearing a blue FACEBOOK SWEATSHIRT.
making friends without the internet
academic facebook friends stalking thesisthere’s this guy that i started talking to… well… he started talking to me, at bathurst station, and we talked all the way up to claxton on the #7 bus. he isn’t on facebook (he told me) and when i tried to google stalk him, there were no results. except for this other guy with […]
Rethinking Facebook: From Zero to Two Accounts
academic developer'sgarage facebook friends.get sxsw sxsw2008 sxswi thesisAt the end of last year, I decided to delete my Facebook account because I was so angry with how hard it was to delete your account (among various other common complaints about said site). For I while, I had no Facebook account. Now I have two, which I realise is really weird considering my […]
Facebook: still normal
academic facebook sxsw sxswi thesisOkay, so SXSW is so last week, but I hate blogging while I’m at things because I like to digest and reflect, but also, I like to actually enjoy things while I’m there (you can blog when you get home!). Thus, I present part one of my fashionably late reflections on Facebook from SXSW interactive: […]
World Domination!
academic facebook mediaI’ve been quietly doing my ethnography and have been naughty about blogging since being back in Canada (a.k.a. I haven’t). I think all the snow makes me sleepy. But! The coolest thing evah happened to me over the past two weeks. I was interviewed about Facebook for three very different newspaper articles, language, topic and […]
Facebook is normal
academic canada facebook thesis torontoI’ve been back in Toronto since late December working on my social web ethnography, which – surprise surprise – has quickly evolved into just being about Facebook because people in Toronto are completely nuts for Facebook.When I left Canada for Australia, Facebook was huge in Toronto (we had the largest network in the world, but […]
All that is Fuct with Facebook: a Summary
academic conference facebook night'sedge panel thesisI did a panel at the Night’s Edge Cyberpunk conference last weekend about privacy and IP issues in the age of Google and Facebook. It ended up being a good summary of what I think is freaking everyone out about Facebook these days. Anyway, since I have to write everything down or I’ll forget, I […]