Critical Theory and Social Media. Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder, Says Internet Freedom Facing Greatest Threat Ever. Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin looks on during a question and answer session following the launch of the new Google Instant during a special launch event September 8, 2010 in San Francisco, California.
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the Internet's creation are facing their greatest-ever threat, the co-founder of Google Sergey Brin said in an interview published by Britain's Guardian newspaper on Monday. Brin said the threat to freedom of the Internet came from a combination of factors, including increasing efforts by governments to control access and communication by their citizens. Kickstarter. Facebook Beacon. Beacon was a part of Facebook's advertisement system that sent data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends.
Certain activities on partner sites were published to a user's News Feed. Beacon was launched on November 6, 2007 with 44 partner websites.[1] The controversial service, which became the target of a class action lawsuit, was shut down in September 2009. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said on the Facebook Blog in November 2011 that Beacon was a "mistake".[2] Privacy concerns[edit] Beacon created considerable controversy soon after it was launched, due to privacy concerns. Q. Audience labor in the new media environment: A Marxian revisiting of the audience commodity. What Is Web 2.0. By Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?
" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. CriticalTheory4studs. FearLess Revolution - COMMON. COMMONCM is a community for accelerating social innovation.
Launched in January 2011 by Alex & Ana Bogusky, Rob Schuham and John Bielenberg, COMMON connects entrepreneurs, designers and creatives to accelerate socially beneficial businesses and ideas using the power of rule-breaking innovation. COMMON's mission is to catalyze a global creative community with the tools, resources and opportunities to design positive social change; all done through the shared values of a collaborative brand. Values. The Judgment of Thamus: A Modern Retelling. Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: 'You Are Their Product' Web giants are becoming too big to care, Senator Al Franken warned Thursday.
Franken argued that the growing dominance of companies such as Facebook and Google risks making them immune to market pressure and more likely to violate users' privacy in the quest for profits. In a speech delivered Thursday to the American Bar Association, Franken maintained that privacy should be treated as an antitrust issue, noting that Americans' right to privacy "can be a casualty of anti-competitive practices online. " "The more dominant these companies become over the sectors in which they operate, the less incentive they have to respect your privacy," Franken said. "[W]hen companies become so dominant that they can violate their users' privacy without worrying about market pressure, all that's left is the incentive to get more and more information about you.
Everything is a Remix. U. Rheingold U. is a totally online learning community, offering courses that usually run for five weeks, with five live sessions and ongoing asynchronous discussions through forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, and social bookmarks.
In my thirty years of experience online and my eight years teaching students face to face and online at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, I've learned that magic can happen when a skilled facilitator works collaboratively with a group of motivated students. Live sessions include streaming audio and video from me and from students, shared text chat and whiteboard, and my ability to push slides and lead tours of websites. FearLess Revolution - FearLess Blog. Triple-C - Site currently unavailable. NetPoliticsBlog. The 25th Anniversary of the WWW: Transition to Socialism or Regression into Barbarism?
Christian Fuchs By Svilen.milev (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( or GFDL ( via Wikimedia Commons 1. The WWW and Capitalism When Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 – 25 years ago – he conceived it as an “open medium”, in which “anybody could connect to anything” and everyone can connect to websites “no matter who I am”. At the same time there was also a digital-communist reality at the heart of the WWW: Tim Berners Lee made the WWW available to anyone without payment as a commonly shared architecture for the publishing of information, communication, sharing, collaboration and community formation.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress.