By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
The biggest story in social media over the last couple of months has been the rapid decline in trust between Facebook and its users. Far from being a phenomenon restricted to techie activists, Facebook’s campaign to push an ever increasing [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Blogging, Creativity, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged abc, Capitalism, commodification, commons, communicatins, danah boyd, data, dialectic, facebook, functionality, Henry Farrell, identity, internet, Jason calacanis, jeff jarvis, Kieran Healy, Labour, libertarianism, Mark Zuckerberg, monetisation, open source, partner sites, privacy, privatisation, publics, regulation, search engines, settings, social media, social networking, socialism, sociality, Sociology, trust, user generated content, web, Wired |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2009
For the first time ever, the Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to a woman, Elinor Ostrom (jointly with Oliver E. Williamson). John Quiggin, writing in Crikey today [where incidentally, he throws a sop to the pedants by pointing [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets | Tagged commons, economic policy, economic theory, Economics, Economics Nobel, Elinor Ostrom, empiricism, John Quiggin, Markets, mixed economy, nobel prize, Oliver Williamson |
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