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Jovan Maud

The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe - The Washington Post - 0 views

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Facebook morality values

shared by Jovan Maud on 02 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Jovan Maud on 02 Feb 16
     
    Interesting piece on whether Facebook is "value neutral" or if it imposes its worldview. Is Facebook simply a medium, or is it in the business of constructing discourse?
Jovan Maud

Inside Facebook's Decision to Blow Up the Like Button - 0 views

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facebook social media

shared by Jovan Maud on 29 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Jovan Maud on 29 Jan 16
     
    On moving "beyond" the "like" button in Facebook. There is some interesting material in the article about the cross-cultural dimensions of designing Facebook for a global market.
Jovan Maud

Nothing is private once Facebook gets into your wallet - 0 views

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facebook privacy commerce capitalism

shared by Jovan Maud on 28 Apr 14 - Cached
  • Capitalism requires fluidity – the transformation of static objects into cashable objects. By making money social and digital it becomes more fluid.
  • While the discourse is about empowering the working and immigrant poor to be able to send money home without costly fees, it is really about financialising a new market, the formerly private acts that are being unlocked by social media.
  • This is financialisation masked as the “sharing economy"
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  • Facebook has been successful in inviting us to volunteer our free digital labour in producing one of the world’s most valuable companies. Some lovingly call this “participatory culture” while I and others call it exploitation.
  • Or worse, this is an attempt to “gamify” money management.
  • The more our social life is monitored and then digitised, the easier it is to hoard, gamify, and monetise any profitable crumbs.
  • Online payment isn’t the problem. Facebook, Google, and others who monopolise and monetise our digital lives on closed centralised systems are. The financialisation of our private lives as well as unwarranted, indiscriminate, illegal, bulk surveillance flourish in these spaces where corporations and governments gain direct access to our private lives.
Jovan Maud

Oculus was the future of gaming. Now it's the future of Facebook. - Boing Boing - 0 views

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crowdfunding facebook gaming politics open access virtual reality

shared by Jovan Maud on 27 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Jovan Maud on 27 Mar 14
     
    Crowd funding of VR system Oculus leads to huge purchase by Facebook. Interesting to think about the various debates connected to this: the relationship between crowd sourcing and corporate control, the different imaginaries connected with VR technologies and so on.
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