Articles in the 4S Category
4S, Conferences, Contextual Integrity, Netaveillance, Privacy, Web 2.0 »
I am currently attending the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Montreal. Earlier today I had the pleasure of participating on a panel I co-organized with Anders Albrechtslund titled, “Ways Knowing Everything About Each Other: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 and Social Networking.”
Here are the first few paragraphs of my contribution:
Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0:
A study in Contextual Integrity, and the Emergence of “Netaveillance”
This talk is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear …
4S, MMOG, Online Privacy, Surveillance »
I sat in on a fascinating panel on surveillance in MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting in Vancouver last week:
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE GAME
ABSTRACT: This panel brings together scholars from different perspectives in game studies to reflect on issues of surveillance and how technologies of surveillance have become embedded within the spaces of massively multiplayer online games. Because surveillance in these spaces can be absolute, with every character’s movement, communication, and decision logged, recorded, and subject to reproduction, it becomes …
4S, Academic, Conferences, Talks »
Blogging has been light again lately as I’ve been recovering from my extended European tour (which included a terrible cold mid-way through, unhelped by Europe’s restrictions on cold medication available over-the-counter). Here’s a quick summary:
I presented at the Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop at Aalborg University in Denmark. My talk, “The Panoptic Gaze of Web 2.0: How Web 2.0 Platforms Act as Infrastructures of Dataveillance” can be downloaded here (PDF), and the slides from my presentation are here (large …
