The August 2010 issue of Wired Magazine features a story about privacy on Facebook. Is Facebook intended for, as Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, “making the world a better place”, or are there other ends?
“The world will be better if you share more“: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Economic Surveillance
christian fuchs, July 20th 2010
Tags: capitalism, economic surveillance, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, personalized advertising, privacy, social networking sites, surveillance, targeted advertising, web 2.0Posted in Uncategorized
The role of Internet and ICT policies in the UK after the 2010 election: does it make a difference for the role of the Internet in British society if there will be a Labour-Lib Dem or a Conservative-Lib Dem government?
Will there be changes in Internet and ICT politics and policies after the 2010 elections for the Westminster parliament? Willit in this context make a difference if there will be a Tory-LibDem government or a Labour-LibDem government? The election manifestos of the three parties give us an idea of what to expect for the near future for UK Internet politics.
christian fuchs, May 8th 2010
Tags: Cameron, Conservative Party, Conservative Party Manifesto 2010, Conservative Technology Manifesto 2010, Conservatives, David Cameron, England, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, Internet, Internet policies, Internet politics, labour, Labour Party, Labour Party Manifesto 2010, Lib Dem, Lib Dems, LibDems, Liberal Democrat Manifesto 2010, Liberal Democrats, LidDem, new media, Nick Clegg, social networking sites, Tories, Tory, UK election, UK elections, United Kingdom, web 2.0Posted in Uncategorized
CfP: Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book “The Internet & Surveillance”
CfP: Call for Chapter Abstracts for the Book “The Internet & Surveillance”
Editors: Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval
christian fuchs, September 7th 2009
Tags: Anders Albrechtslund, blogs, book, call for chapter abstracts, CfP, christian fuchs, COST, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Kees Boersma, LiSS, Living in Surveillance Societies, Marisol Sandoval, social networking platforms, social networking sites, social software, surveillance society, Surveillance Technologies in Practice, the internet & surveillance, user-generated content, web 2.0, wikisPosted in Uncategorized