Category Archives: Facebook

>danah boyd strikes again: "Quitting Facebook is Pointless"

Posted on May 24, 2010 by

>danah boyd is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society.  Her blog is called apophenia, and I just discovered it a few weeks ago.  If you use a … Continue reading →

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>Facebook and Privacy . . . I don’t think so.

Posted on May 18, 2010 by

> Yes, I am fixating on Facebook. I saw this graphic in the New York Times last week, but I was reminded of it again when I read danah boyd’s posting, “Facebook and Radical Transparency (a rant)”  Of course, in the … Continue reading →

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>Facebook, Teachers, and Students

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

>  Allie Shah wrote a nice piece in Friday, 14 May’s StarTribune titled “Why Can’t We Be Facebook Friends?” Her description of the muddled boundaries returns me, once again, to some of the questions that I wrote about in a … Continue reading →

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>Accidental Billionaires and the Public/Private Dimensions of Facebook

Posted on May 6, 2010 by

> Yesterday, I finished reading Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genuis, and Betrayal  (New York: Doubleday, 2009.  260 pages.)  To be honest, I was a bit disappointed.  It is more like … Continue reading →

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>’Point of No Return’

Posted on April 21, 2010 by

> Ramadhan Pohan is a member of Indonesia’s Parliment.  In Norimitsu Onishi’s 20 April NYTimes article “In Indonesia, the Internet Emerges as a (Too?) Powerful Tool,” Pohan is quoted as suggesting that “[old-style politicians and bureaucrats] don’t realize that in … Continue reading →

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