Damien's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » #mscdystopia http://digitalculture-ed.net/damiend Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Facebook Survival http://digitalculture-ed.net/damiend/2009/09/27/facebook-survival/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/damiend/2009/09/27/facebook-survival/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:52:32 +0000 Damien DeBarra http://digitalculture-ed.net/damiend/?p=33 Hand, M (2008) Hardware to everywhere: narratives of promise and threat, chapter 1 of Making digital cultures: access, interactivity and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp 15-42.

Hand’s ‘dystopian narrative’ seems be one where new technologies provide government and big corporations an increasing level of access to your life and data. What he didn’t mention is the other new digital battlefront: the boundaries between friends and family online.

‘Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids’

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‘Do you want to be my friend? Confirm or ignore?’

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