(This article was cross-posted on the Masters of Media blog). Here’s the final version of my thesis (called ‘Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance’) which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF [...]

This post below was previously posted on the Masters of Media Research Blog. Note that the keynote brought together many of the inquiries done by boyd. So, if you’re familiar with her work, this won’t be groundbreaking. (I still had a blast though). Last week I had the chance to attend at a symposium held [...]