Henry Farrell
Facebook, privacy and social utility
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 | 88 Responses
Obama.change
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2009
You can pick almost any American liberal blog at random for signs that Barack Obama is already disappointing “the base” – that is, if the netroots actually constitute or represent his base. I’m still a tad surprised by this phenomenon [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, change.gov, Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell, liberals, netroots, open government, Sociology, US politics | 33 Responses
Partisanship, politics and participation
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
As Obama’s liberal supporters wait uneasily for January 20 to find out whether he really will use his post-partisan stance as a sweetener to implement progressive policy, Crooked Timber blogger and political scientist Henry Farrell has published a rather fascinating [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged barack obama, Blogging, blogosphere, deliberative democracy, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Farrell, internet activism, Jurgen Habermas, new media, partisanship, political blogging, political participation, political science, political sociology, public sphere, social media | 6 Responses
More on Nixonland; of cultural politics and culture wars
By Mark Bahnisch on November 3, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/richard-nixon.jpg" In a previous post on expectations of whether an Obama win will reshape politics and end the culture wars, I briefly discussed Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, which I read recently. The title, incidentally, comes from a passage in a [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Foreign Elections, History, Howardia, USA | Tagged Adlai Stevenson, American history, American Political Science Association, barack obama, Crooked Timber, cultural politics, Culture Wars, David Greenberg, GOP, Henry Farrell, John Howard, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kevin Rudd, Maxine McKew, Nixon's Shadow, nixonland, political science, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 35 Responses
Bring back Bill Clinton (the last dog isn't dead yet)
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bill_clinton.jpeg" align=left I’m going to go out on a limb here. Bill Clinton is the only genuine political talent that creaking heap of donkeys, the beloved Democratic Party, has produced in an age. Damn that Twenty-Second Amendment. Obama plays [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, GOP, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street | 24 Responses
The end of financialisation? II
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2008
As a supplement to earlier posts on the sociology of the global financial crisis from Kim and dk.au, I thought I’d note something very interesting written by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber. Farrell traces the shift in paradigm in the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, City of London, credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, globalisation, gordon brown, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, Jon Cruddas, Labour, neoliberalism, New Labour, political economy, political sociology, Robert Skidelsky, social democracy, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, sub prime crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street | 62 Responses
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