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[CITASA] New book: Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media

David Brake

Thu, Oct 23, 2014 2:21 AM

Dear colleagues,

My book "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media" about why people share personal details about their lives on social media and the personal and societal consequences of these practices has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. At the micro-sociological level its analysis draws on insights from interviews with individual social media users. The book also takes into account a range of macro-sociological influences including the power of software defaults, the changing technological landscape of sharing and the commercial imperatives of the new media industry. It critically reviews the literature about online danger and it ends with recommendations for the industry, policy makers and educators.

While this is a theoretically-informed and fully referenced academic text I am an ex-journalist and I am confident it should be readable by a broad range of students. I have structured the introductory chapter in particular so that it provides a succinct overview of the whole book. Students will also be pleased to hear it is already available in softcover ($28/£18 list) and on Kindle ($18/£10) as well as in hardback ($95/£65).

Official details, a sample and further information can be found at http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=528259 - you can get 30% off via this site if you are not Canadian or Australasian by quoting PM14THIRTY but only to the end of the month.

Apologies for cross-posting - if however (paradoxically) after a day or two I have somehow failed to cross-post to a list you are aware of where scholars might find it interesting, please pass it on.

And of course I would be pleased to hear if you adopt the book to teach with and find it useful and/or if you would like to review it.

Regards,

David

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Dr David Brake, Professor of Journalism, Humber College, Dep’t of Media Studies & Information Technology
3199 Lake Shore Blvd W, Toronto ON M8V 1K8 Office: +1 416 675 3111 x79323
@drbrake http://davidbrake.org/ skype:davidbrake

Dear colleagues, My book "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media" about why people share personal details about their lives on social media and the personal and societal consequences of these practices has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. At the micro-sociological level its analysis draws on insights from interviews with individual social media users. The book also takes into account a range of macro-sociological influences including the power of software defaults, the changing technological landscape of sharing and the commercial imperatives of the new media industry. It critically reviews the literature about online danger and it ends with recommendations for the industry, policy makers and educators. While this is a theoretically-informed and fully referenced academic text I am an ex-journalist and I am confident it should be readable by a broad range of students. I have structured the introductory chapter in particular so that it provides a succinct overview of the whole book. Students will also be pleased to hear it is already available in softcover ($28/£18 list) and on Kindle ($18/£10) as well as in hardback ($95/£65). Official details, a sample and further information can be found at http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=528259 - you can get 30% off via this site if you are not Canadian or Australasian by quoting PM14THIRTY but only to the end of the month. Apologies for cross-posting - if however (paradoxically) after a day or two I have somehow failed to cross-post to a list you are aware of where scholars might find it interesting, please pass it on. And of course I would be pleased to hear if you adopt the book to teach with and find it useful and/or if you would like to review it. Regards, David -- Dr David Brake, Professor of Journalism, Humber College, Dep’t of Media Studies & Information Technology 3199 Lake Shore Blvd W, Toronto ON M8V 1K8 Office: +1 416 675 3111 x79323 @drbrake http://davidbrake.org/ skype:davidbrake

Mathieu ONeil

Fri, Oct 31, 2014 1:05 AM

[apologies for multiple posts]

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===> Journal of Peer Production #5: Shared Machine Shops -- out now! <===

           .oO{  http://peerproduction.net/  }Oo.



                  \\ Release: 2014-10-31 //



                       .Public domain!.



                             <*>

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Editing:
- Maxigas
  
  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Peter Troxler
  
  International Fab Lab Association
  
  Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Despite the marketing clangour of the “maker movement”, shared machine shops are currently “fringe phenomena” since they play a minor role in the production of wealth, knowledge, political consensus and the social organisation of life.

Interestingly, however, they also prominently share the core transformations experienced in contemporary capitalism. The convergence of work, labour and other aspects of life -- the rapid development of algorithmically driven technical systems and their intensifying role in social organisation -- the practical and legitimation crisis of institutions, echoed by renewed attempts at self-organisation.

Each article in this special issue addresses a received truth which circulates unreflected amongst both academics analysing these phenomena and practitioners engaged in the respective scenes. Questioning such myths based on empirical research founded on a rigorous theoretical framework is what a journal such as the Journal of Peer Production can contribute to both academic and activist discourses. Shared machine shops have been around for at least a decade or so, which makes for a good time to evaluate how they live up to their self-professed social missions.

Here is an executive summary:

Shared Machine Shops are not new.
Fab Labs are not about technology.
Sharing is not happening.
Hackerspaces are not open.
Technology is not neutral.
Hackerspaces are not solving problems.
Fab Labs are not the seeds of a revolution.

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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S |

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#-------------------+

EDITORIAL SECTION |

#-------------------+

* We Now have the Means of Production, but Where is my Revolution?

by maxigas and Peter Troxler

* Digitally-Operated Atoms vs. Bits of Rhetoric

by Ursula Gastfall, Thomas Fourmond, Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Peter Troxler

* Critical Notions of Technology: Promises of Empowerment in Shared Machine Shops

by Susana Nascimento

* Distributed and Open Creation Platforms as Key Enablers for Smarter Cities

by Tomas Diez

* Fab Labs Forked: A Grassroots Insurgency inside the Next Industrial Revolution

by Peter Troxler

* Cultural Stratigraphy: A Rift between Shared Machine Shops

by maxigas

#----------------------+

PEER REVIEWED PAPERS |

#----------------------+

* Technology Networks for socially useful production

by Adrian Smith

* The Story of MIT-Fablab Norway: Community Embedding of Peer Production

by Cindy Kohtala and Camille Bosqué

* Sharing is Sparing: Open Knowledge Sharing in Fab Labs

by Patricia Wolf, Peter Troxler, Pierre-Yves Kocher, Julie Harboe & Urs Gaudenz

* Feminist Hackerspaces: The Synthesis of Feminist and Hacker Cultures

by Sophie Toupin

* Beyond Technological Fundamentalism: Peruvian Hack Labs

and “Inter-technological” Education

by Anita Say Chan [html] [pdf]

* Becoming Makers: Hackerspace Member Habits, Values, and Identities

by Austin Toombs, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell

* Shared Machine Shops as Real-life Laboratories

by Sascha Dickel, Jan-Peter Ferdinand, and Ulrich Petschow

... Respect for all the contributors, peer reviewers, and readers! ...

v ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

RELEASE PARTY at FSCONS 2014 Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit

             2014-10-31 20:00, Renströmsgatan 6, Göteburg, Sweden

             Join us at http://irc.indymedia.org<http://irc.indymedia.org/> #jopp channel !!!

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