Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs
Associate Professor
Unified Theory of Information
Research Group
c/o ICT&S Center:
University of Salzburg
Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18
5020 Salzburg, Austria
christian.fuchs [a t] sbg.ac.at

“The world will be better if you share more“: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Economic Surveillance

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?

International Sociological Association (ISA) World Forum, Day 4: John Urry; Public Sociology

On the fourth, final day, of the ISA World Forum, John Urry gave a talk on “Sociology and Climate Change” and there was a concluding debate on public sociology.