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My Pb Works Post For Week 8 - Borders - Deleuzian Body-Without-Organs

My most recent blog entry, looking at the implications of the increasing digital literacy among younger generations.

This is my third blog entry on the theme of the Digital Divide. I've looked at the situation in Thailand in terms of the class divide, political divide, and digital divide that characterise the conflict.

There has been some controversy about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's comments in an online chat from 2006 that surfaced recently. He told a friend that Facebook users were dumb for trusting him and submitting private, personal information on his then-fledgling website. An initiative by four young programmers to counteract the negative effects that Facebook has had on privacy and the ability of users to control the data they put online is Diaspora. It is a decentralised, open source social network that wants to compete with centralised social networks that allow "spying for free". It will be interesting to see whether the initiative really takes off as a viable alternative to Facebook.