After our inaugural Psychogeographers of Ontario (POO!) walk, I dragged Helen, Luke and Dana to this used bookstore I’d been eyeing for a few weeks on College. I walked out with two old Margaret Atwoods and a Virginia Woolf for $3 a piece, but the real gem I found was Arthur Kroker‘s totally ridiculous pomo […]
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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: […]
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 […]
So, you want to delete your Facebook profile… (Part 2)
academic facebook thesisI held off writing this until I had actually done the deed. And I kept put off doing the deed because I knew it would be mind numbingly boring and time consuming for reasons I’ll elaborate on in a sec. But it is done, my Facebook profile is all deleted. At first, they only let […]
So, you want to delete your Facebook profile… (Part 1)
academic facebook privacy thesisSo, I’ve been a very naughty Facebook researcher. A few days ago, I tried to delete my Facebook account. Despite my best attempts, I’ve only gotten as far as deactivating it, thanks to the insane demands of Facebook. I’ll save that story for another post, because its a fun one. I’ve been toying with the […]
thought web 2.0 was a nebulous term?
thesis web2.0my friend adam passed along this insane job description for “social media officer” at the university of toronto. Experience: Minimum five years experience working in the field of new media from a content perspective, including web design/architecture, preferably in a large organization. A high degree of knowledge of and experience with ‚ÄúWeb 2.0‚Äù tools (Wikis, […]
facebook in 40 years
facebook thesis[stolen from richard stelmach]
browser wars 2.0
facebook myspace thesisremember internet explorer versus netscape browser wars of the mid 90s? myspace is copying facebook and adding applications. so, get ready for the social browser wars – facebook versus myspace!
is social technology really social?
friending livejournal myspace socialsoftware socialtechnology thesisrhiannon sawyer, a fellow graduate student in sydney, is writing her thesis on friending on myspace. she tells me she has just started conducting interviews with myspace users, and is finding “that everyone has their own definition of friendship on MySpace and that often they don’t actually call it that… Businesses and individuals seem to […]