Imagine you have been keeping a LiveJournal diary for a long period of time, amassing hundreds of posts about various details of your personal life. You have always been an open individual, so you naturally made all of your posts…
Category: Social Media
Discussions of social media platforms and their impact on communication, collaboration, sociability, privacy, and norms of information flow.
To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You
As I've been saying... To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You, New York Times, March 11, 2008 ...A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from…
Special issue of First Monday: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
I am pleased to announce the (open) publication of a special issue of First Monday on "Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0." This special issue was born from a panel I organized at AoIR, and features amazing contributions from Trebor Scholz,…
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More on Moli, and Designing for Privacy
Earlier this week, Technology Review ran a piece discussing the social networking site, Moli, which allows users to manage multiple identities through a common login, controlling who gets to see what aspect of their lives. I was quoted in the…
Moli: Maintaining Multiple Personas Online, Sharing More Personal Information
Technology Review has a piece discussing the new social networking site, Moli. Moli's claim to fame is the ability to have multiple social networking profiles linked by a common login, each with its own privacy settings. This can be especially…
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123 Meme: Libraries, National Security, Freedom of Information Laws and Social Responsibilities
Yet another blog meme, courtesy of folks at Chronicles of Dissent (by way of Threat Level). This time I'm supposed to grab the nearest book, open to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3…
The Illusion of “Private” Web Content
Millions of Web 2.0 users share their personal information, photos, bookmarks, and lives online. And, of course, various concerns arise about the fact that so much (what was once considered) private information is being publicly shared with anyone with an…
Ethics, Technology and Identity
Speaking of my colleague Noëmi Manders-Huits, she is organizing an amazing looking conference on Ethics, Technology and Identity in Delft this June: Information technology plays an increasingly important role in society and in human lives. Identity Management Technologies (e.g. biometrics,…
Frontline: Growing Up Online
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…
Yale ISP Reading Group: Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design
This spring I am running a reading group at the Yale Information Society Project (but open to all) titled "Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design." The description and draft syllabus are below -- comments and suggestions are welcome! Technology, Law,…
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