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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 September 19, 2009
The answer is no, according to Dennis Barron. Contra Baroness Greenfield, among others.
Posted in Culture, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged baroness greenfield, Dennis barron, internet, Salon, social media, social networking, susan greenfield, web 2.0 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 16, 2009
A lot of the most reliable data on web use and social media comes from the World Internet Project. Most of the findings from the project derive from rigorous quantitative research, and unlike a lot of what purports to be [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Life, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged business models, content creation, cultural studies, Culture, Economics, everyday life, facebook, fairfax, future of journalism, future of media, internet, jeffrey cole, lived experience, margaret simons, myspace, newspapers, print journalism, science and technology studies, social media, social networking, social uses of technology, Sociology, swinburne university, user generated content, web, web 2.0, world internet project |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 16, 2009
I’m not going to comment directly on the Twitter controversy (because I’m not now, and never have been a user), but I think the much complained of “Twitterisation of Facebook” is worth a look. For those of you who haven’t [...]
Posted in Sociology, The Web | Tagged changes, communication, cultural sociology, cultural studies, deconstruction, facebook, George P. Landow, grammatology, Hypertext, inscription, literary theory, live stream, new Facebook, new media, presence, social graph, social media, social networking, Sociology, text, twitter, usability, users |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 12, 2009
<img src='http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/9781408701133.jpg' align=left There’s obviously a perception in the publishing and bookselling industries that James Harkin’s Cyburbia is going to sell well – as you can barely walk into a bookstore at the moment without falling over it. The subtitle [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Science, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Book review, Charlie Gere, cultural studies, Culture, cybernetics, Cyburbia, digital culture, facebook, History, information theory, internet, James Harkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, N. Katherine Hayles, Norbert Weiner, social media, social network theory, social networking, Sociology, Technology, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2009
As is traditional in Australia, the first day of the new year saw the release of cabinet records from thirty years ago at state and federal level. Incidentally, the underwhelming nature of what was revealed should put a big question [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environment, Government, Health, Howardia, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Poverty, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, cabinet, Climate change, Employee Free Choice Act, healthcare, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Media, neoliberalism, new media, political economy, political sociology, Politics, predictions, press gallery, Rudd government, social democracy, social networking, unionism, us economy, US politics |
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