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Discussions of social media platforms and their impact on communication, collaboration, sociability, privacy, and norms of information flow.
Google Cooperating with Mumbai & Brazilian Police
Boing Boing has two good posts detailing how Google has been cooperating with Mumbai and Brazilian authorities to help censor content and track down offenders on their Orkut social networking service. In the Mumbai case: The Indian Express and other…
Blogs That Make Me Think
A new meme has germinated the blogosphere: 5 Blogs That Make Me Think. The fine folks at Chronicles of Dissent (a production of Pogo Was Right) included michaelzimmer.org among 5 privacy-related blogs that make them think. Thanks for placing me…
Google & YouTube Turn Over User ID to Fox
ASPnews.com reports that Google has complied with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and provided 20th Century Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally uploaded entire episodes of "24" to YouTube prior to its broadcast…
Web 2.0…Beyond E-text (Video)
Another slick video, courtesy of Michael Wesch and the Digital Ethnography group at Kansas State, revealing how Web 2.0 infrastructures represent a shift from "structure" to "content" in the flow of information, which forces us to rethink copyright, identity, ethics,…
Vaidhyanathan: “No Thanks” to Person of the Year
Siva Vaidhyanathan says "no thanks" to Time magazine naming "you" Person of the Year. From his essay on MSNBC.com: ... Well, thank you, Time, for hyping me, overvaluing me, using me to sell my image back to me, profiling me,…
The five-things-you-didn’t-know-about-me meme
Seth Finkelstein has tagged me with the “five things you don’t know about me” meme spreading through the blogosphere, and I figure if Seth is game enough to play, I can too 🙂 About 8 years ago, before I returned…
Fake (“Hot”) Friends for MySpace
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…
On the Internet, everybody knows you’re a dog – Slate
Michael Kinsley has an amusing piece in Slate remarking on the fact that since so many people freely provide so much personal information on Web 2.0 and social networking sites, that now, On the Internet, everybody knows you're a dog:…
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YouTube and Shifting Norms of Public/Private
The theory of “privacy as contextual integrity" provides the tools for considering how the introduction of new technologies/practices within a particular context might disrupt norms of information flow, potentially threatening values of privacy, autonomy, or liberty. It is especially useful…
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