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 March 5, 2010
The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Ethics, Feminism, Life, Media, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Anna Bligh, censorship, child protection, children, Colin Jacobs, content, content management, electronic frontiers australia, elliott fletcher, facebook, freedom of speech, groups, high school, internet, Kevin Rudd, Media, moderation, moral panic, murder, nick xenophon, ombudsman, Ombudsperson, online, privacy, public debate, publishing, racism, sexism, social media, social networking, tribute sights, trinity bates |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 20, 2009
One of the most interesting teaching assignments I’ve had for a while is tutoring in a course in New Communications Technologies offered through the School of Humanities at Griffith. Some of the class discussions we’ve had so far this semester [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Language, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged cultural studies, dedifferentiation, digital natives, distributed cognition, employers, facebook, Facebook privacy, figurational sociology, Griffith University, historical sociology, human rights, informalisation, Law, Legal Eagle, Melissa Gregg, modernity, New communications technologies, New Communications Technology, Norbert Elias, personality, privacy, recruitment, School of Humanities, self, skepticlawyer, social media, Sociology, subjectivity, Sydney University, web 2.0, workplace rights |
By tigtog on August 17, 2009
There’s been a slew of articles about Google and privacy and Google monstering poor little media conglomerates lately. Just paranoia (or competitors panic-mongering), or is there a legitimate concern regarding a looming information monopoly?
Posted in Ethics, The Web | Tagged benefits of transparency, Google monster, information age, privacy, privacy guarantees |
By Robert Merkel on September 29, 2008
Here we go again. From the Oz: CRIMTRAC’s planned automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system could become a mass surveillance system, taking as many as 70 million photos of cars and drivers every day across a vast network of roadside [...]
Posted in Crime | Tagged anpr, automatic number plate recognition, crimtrac, privacy, surveillance, wholesale surveillance |
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