First Monday March 2013

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