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    Frontline: Growing Up Online

    Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

    I’m sitting in a hotel room in New Haven, trying to finish an article for First Monday, but then I received a call from my wife suggesting I turn on PBS, as Frontline is airing an amazing report on “Growing Up Online.” It is a thoughtful treatment of the topic that, in their words, “takes […]

    Panoptic Sorting on the Rise as MySpace Enters Behavioral Targeting Foray

    Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

    Following recent announcements by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook, MySpace has announced it will begin targeting advertisements based on users profiles and behavior on their social networking platform. As explained in this NYTimes article:
    The algorithms make their judgments partly on certain keywords in the profile. A member might be obvious by describing himself as a […]

    Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”

    Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

    [This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project’s blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz]
    This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear on privacy and surveillance studies. After […]

    Police Monitoring MySpace, Case No. 420

    Saturday, May 26th, 2007

    Increasingly, policy are regularly monitoring MySpace pages for evidence of criminal activity. Here’s a recent case from near my hometown, as reported in a column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
    The 18-year-old Sheboygan guy was so proud of the pot plants he was growing in his basement that he posted pictures of them on two different […]

    Fake (”Hot”) Friends for MySpace

    Thursday, November 30th, 2006

    Discourse.net discovered Fake Your Space, a service that for just 99 cents per month will provide users of MySpace and Facebook fake “hot” friends with custom messages. In their own words:
    FakeYourSpace is an exciting new service that enables normal everyday people like me and you to have Hot friends on popular social networking sites such […]

    MySpace = Spam 2.0?

    Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

    Trent Lapinski, a freelance writer, was hired to write an exposé about MySpace, but apparently News Corp threatened to sue his publisher if they ran the story. Instead, Lapinski sold his story to Valleywag, who decided to publish it despite the threat of legal action. Why doesn’t News Corp want it published? Probably becuase Lapinski […]


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