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If my thesis were posted to Facebook, it’d have a lot of Likes

May 23, 2014 by facebook thesis

(Sorry, couldn’t resist the cheesy title).. I received a rather exciting email about my thesis today: Dear Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie I am writing to let you know that your thesis, which is in the Curtin institutional repository, espace@Curtin, has been particularly popular with readers around the globe. Your thesis, Privacy in the age of facebook […]

Privacy in the Age of Facebook: Discourse, Architecture, Consequences

September 13, 2012 by 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

February 16, 2011 by academic annotated bibliography facebook privacy selfsurveillance sns social media surveillance thesis

I 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 […]

Ethnography, ideology & internet research

December 12, 2010 by academic ethnography facebook internet research methodology privacy thesis

[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 […]

The Philosophy of Facebook (or, the real reason Facebook doesn’t care about privacy)

December 2, 2010 by academic californian ideology cybernetics facebook philosophy of facebook thesis

Update: 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

October 2, 2010 by academic academic facebook sns socialtechnology socialweb thefacebook thesis

I 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 […]

Foursquare’s unprivacy Twitter ‘feature’ (or Foursquare, privacy and gender)

March 14, 2010 by feminism foursquare geek feminism gender internets privacy thesis twitter

I love Foursquare and any one of my friends will tell you how obsessed I am (complete with an eye roll). I’m a level 1 super user and religiously check in where ever I go. I’ve added a lot of new locations and will fix location information or duplicates when I see a mistake. I’m […]