The Politics of Social Media. Facebook: Control and Resistance
This thesis examines the governance of contemporary social media and the potential of resistance. In particular, it sheds light on several cases in which Facebook has met with resistance in its attempt to exercise control. This social networking site has raised concerns over privacy, the constraints of its software, and the exploitation of user-generated content. | source : mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl
Recommandé parpalpitt le 06/09/10 00:54 | permalien
danah boyd | apophenia » Regulating the Use of Social Media Data
I was fascinated to learn that the German government is proposing legislation that would put restrictions on what Internet content employers could use when recruiting.
A decade ago, all of our legal approaches to the Internet focused on what data online companies could collect. This makes sense if you think of the Internet as a broadcast medium. But then along came the mainstreamification of social media and user-generated content. People are sharing content left right and center as part of their daily sociable practices. They’re sharing as if the Internet is a social place, not a professional place. More accurately, they’re sharing in a setting where there’s no clear delineation of social and professional spheres. Since social media became popular, folks have continuously talked about how we need to teach people to not share what might cause them professional consternation. Those warnings haven’t worked. And for good reason. What’s professionally questionable to one may be perfectly | source : www.zephoria.org
Recommandé parFrancis Pisani le 31/08/10 10:03 | permalien
La vie privée, un problème de vieux cons ?” - Jean-Marc Manach , fyp, 2010 - compte-rendu
"Jean-Marc Manach part de l’analogie entre la révolution digitale et la révolution sexuelle : ” L’absence de pudeur des “natifs du numérique” serait comparable à l’attitude désinhibée avec laquelle les jeunes des années 60/70 abordaient la sexualité"...."Le problème de la vie privée, selon Jean-Marc Manach, est donc moins celui du traçage temporel, que celui du traçage physique généré par toutes les formes de (vidéo) surveillance ..."“le problème, ce n’est pas Orwell, c’est Kafka “" | source : www.nicolasbordas.fr
Recommandé parelectropublication le 27/08/10 21:21 | permalien
"Why Privacy Is Not Dead" (danah boyd)
The way privacy is encoded into software doesn't match the way we handle it in real life. | source : www.technologyreview.com
Recommandé parpalpitt le 27/08/10 18:23 | permalien
See What Google Knows About Your "Social Circle"
Google started including "your social circle" in its search results earlier this year. Ever wonder how Google knows who you know? Wonder no more, as the Mountain View firm offers a page explaining exactly how inter-connected your online life really is. | source : lifehacker.com
Recommandé parPhilippe Martin le 23/08/10 23:02 | permalien
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years. Watch closely as your privacy disappears, one small change at a time! | source : www.eff.org
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 23/08/10 10:28 | permalien
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses based on what seemed reasonable to me.
I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. | source : mattmckeon.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 23/08/10 10:27 | permalien
Confusing *a* public with *the* public « BuzzMachine
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg seem to assume that once something is public, it’s public. They confused sharing with publishing. They conflate the public sphere with the making of a public. That is, when I blog something, I am publishing it to the world for anyone and everyone to see: the more the better, is the assumption. But when I put something on Facebook my assumption had been that I was sharing it just with the public I created and control there. That public is private. Therein lies the confusion. Making that public public is what disturbs people. It robs them of their sense of control—and their actual control—of what they were sharing and with whom (no matter how many preferences we can set). On top of that, collecting our actions elsewhere on the net—our browsing and our likes—and making that public, too, through Facebook, disturbed people even more. Where does it end? | source : www.buzzmachine.com
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 22/08/10 09:46 | permalien
danah boyd | apophenia » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
With this backdrop in mind, I want to talk about a concept that Kirkpatrick suggests is core to Facebook: “radical transparency.” In short, Kirkpatrick argues that Zuckerberg believes that people will be better off if they make themselves transparent. Not only that, society will be better off. (We’ll ignore the fact that Facebook’s purse strings may be better off too.) My encounters with Zuckerberg lead me to believe that he genuinely believes this, he genuinely believes that society will be better off if people make themselves transparent. And given his trajectory, he probably believes that more and more people want to expose themselves. Silicon Valley is filled with people engaged in self-branding, making a name for themselves by being exhibitionists. | source : www.zephoria.org
Recommandé parPaul Bradshaw le 22/08/10 08:04 | permalien