Category Archives: Social Networking

This is meant to address social networking technologies generally – it’s a catch-all for cases where I’m talking about blogging, wikis, friendster, facebook, etc all at once rather than individually.

Continuums of Social Media?

In this post I want to think about ways of ‘structuring’ social media along a set of continuums/formalized networks and the role of HTML 5′s semantic possibilities in pushing past the present set of social networking environments. Continue reading

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Economics of Authenticity on Twitter

I think that the generalization of all users as identical (e.g. all friend relationships on Facebook can be seen as equivalent to each other, in dollars and cents terms) is problematic and limits an accurate valuation of social networking environments. Continue reading

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Facebook Got Off Easy: Third-Parties and Data Collection

I’m on Facebook, and have been for years. I also dislike Facebook, and have for several years. I don’t dislike the social networking service because it’s bad at what it aims to do, but because it’s far too good at what … Continue reading

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Draft – Who Gives a ‘Tweet’ About Privacy?

This paper uses academic privacy literature to examine Twitter and the notion of reasonable expectations of privacy in public, and is written with the intent that it can help nuance privacy discussions concerning the discourse occuring on Twitter. Continue reading

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