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Dialogue: reflecting on Chapter 1 of Tim Jordan’s Internet, Society, and Culture: Communicative practices before and after the internet

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A few weeks ago, Tim Jordan shared the opening chapter of his new book, Internet, Society, and Culture: Communicative Practices before and after the Internet, published by Bloomsbury.  (You can still read it here.) The comments that followed raised some interesting observations, both about it and inspired by it, so we’re re-posting those comments here […]

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The Biopower of Facebook

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Here’s an article on NPR’s website about Facebook’s new default “opt-in” policy.  According to the article, Facebook is changing its default privacy setting from one where users must “opt-out”–manually increase their security settings– to make their profile private.  With this new “opt-in” policy, Facebook profiles are public by default. Who you are, quite literally, is for sale. […]

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