From my inbox:
First Monday has just published the March 2013 (volume 18, number 3) issue, a special issue entitled “Unlike Us: Understanding social media monopolies,” at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.
The following papers are included in this month’s issue:
First Monday
Volume 18, number 3 – 4 March 2013
Special issue: Unlike Us: Understanding social media monopolies
Introduction: Understanding social media monopolies
by Korinna Patelis and Pavlos Hatzopoulos
Society doesn’t exist
by Jodi Dean
Silence, delirium, lies?
by Caroline Bassett
What’s on your mind? Social media monopolies and noopower
by Robert Gehl
Smell the fish: Digital Disneyland and the right to oblivion by Oliver Leistert
Social media as a government propaganda tool in post-revolutionary Egypt by Sara El-Khalili
Facebook.com text: Industrialising personal data production
by Korinna Patelis