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?
christian fuchs, July 20th 2010
Tags: capitalism, economic surveillance, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, personalized advertising, privacy, social networking sites, surveillance, targeted advertising, web 2.0
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It is a fact that Google has while taking panorama photographs of streets in cities all over the world (in 34 countries) for its Street View application also collected information about wireless networks and data from open wireless networks that are not password-secured. Maybe it is time to stop talking about corporate social responsibility and to start focusing on the analysis, exposure, and investigation of corporate social irresponsibility.
christian fuchs, May 29th 2010
Tags: Google, Google Street View, Google surveillance, Internet privacy violation, Internet surveillance, political economy of Internet surveillance, political economy of web 2.0 surveillance, surveillance, surveillance society, the internet & surveillance, web 2.0
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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 2.0
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The BBC recently aired a documentary in its ”Virtual Revolution“ series that focused on ”The Cost of Free“. The overall topic were the risks and problems posed by Internet platforms that are operated by corporations such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, News Corporation, and others.
Critical political economist Dallas Smythe in his seminal paper “On the audience commodity and its work” suggested that advertising business models of the media are not primarily based on the commodification of content, but the commodification of the audience. In case of the Internet, one can speak of the Internet prosumer commodity.
christian fuchs, February 18th 2010
Tags: audience commodity, BBC, class, Dallas Smythe, Internet prosumer commodity, online surveillance, surveillance, the cost of free, virtual revolution, web 2.0, web 2.0 surveillance
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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, wikis
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