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Social Media’s Dirty Work: Contextualizing the Facebook Screening Controversy
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By Roberts on Feb 26th, 2012
  1. Advocacy
  2. Gender & Sexuality
  3. Civic Engagement
  4. HASTAC Scholars
  5. Internet & Web 2.0
  6. Digital Divide & Access
  7. International & Global
  8. Social Networks & Social Media
  9. Race & Ethnicity
  10. Socioeconomic Status & Class
  11. Work
  12. Community & Policy
  13. Culture
  1. Adrian Chen
  2. amazon
  3. Antoine Dodson
  4. Apple
  5. Bed Intruder
  6. Behind the Screen
  7. Brett Caraway
  8. content screeners
  9. contract
  10. digital labor
  11. digital piecework
  12. dirty work
  13. dissertation
  14. e-waste
  15. exploitation
  16. Facebook
  17. Foxconn
  18. Gawker
  19. global south
  20. globalization
  21. labor
  22. Mechanical Turk
  23. oDesk
  24. outsourcing
  25. Raj Jayadev
  26. safiya noble
  27. Shenzhen
  28. silicon valley
  29. social media
  30. Tiziana Terranova
  31. users
  32. video content moderation
  33. viral video
  34. Wendy Chun
  35. workers
  36. Youtube

In the past few days my inbox has seen an influx in forwards from friends and colleagues, all sharing links with me covering the recent revelation...
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The importance of critical informaiton studies and the digital enclosure
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By Noble on Feb 9th, 2011
  1. Games & Gaming
  2. Internet & Web 2.0
  3. International & Global
  4. Privacy
  5. Software & Apps
  1. Acxiom
  2. amazon
  3. AOL
  4. Apple
  5. China
  6. ChoicePoint
  7. digital capital
  8. Earthlink
  9. Google
  10. Homeland Security
  11. Marx
  12. microsoft
  13. MSN Spaces
  14. Murdoch
  15. privacy
  16. surveillance
  17. United States
  18. video games
  19. yahoo

When I think of doing critical information studies and scholarship, I think of it in the way that information, communication, technology &...
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Macmillan Books V. Amazon Kindle
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By Davidson on Jan 31st, 2010
  1. Careers, Publishing & Tenure
  2. Internet & Web 2.0
  3. Reading & Writing
  1. amazon
  2. books
  3. distribution
  4. electronic publishing
  5. kindle
  6. Macmillan
  7. publishing

Here is an update from Publisher's Lunch (a publishing industry newsletter) that details some of the dispute between Macmillan and Kindle. ...
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Amazon:Homophobia, Search,and Censoring: Sign the Petition
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By Davidson on Apr 13th, 2009
  1. Internet & Web 2.0
  2. Community & Policy
  1. amazon
  2. censorship

 Amazon.com is excluding gay and lesbian books, including serious worksof scholarship, poetry, fiction, and criticism, by writers ranging...
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Light my e-book fire?
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By Tarr on Dec 6th, 2007
  1. Internet & Web 2.0
  2. Reading & Writing
  1. amazon
  2. e-books
  3. kindle

I know I'm a couple of weeks late to the party, but I can't resist the opportunity to write a bit about Kindle, Amazon's new e-book reader. I've...
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