Archive for the 'Social Philosophy' Category

Social Networking and Ethics: What Price Freedom?

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Just over a year ago, I left the online community that I enjoyed most in the world. Utata is a salon-style collective of photographers, writers, and like-minded people who share a compelling interest…

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What Can Visualizations of Social Networks Tell Us About Ourselves?

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Just saw this post tweeted and thought that it raised some interesting questions.

Social technologies allow humans to interact without respect to locality in time or space. Someone can read and…

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Social Transparency and the New York Times

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Hot on the scene this morning is this post on the New York Times trying to get Amber Naslund to change her editorial because it criticized an aspect of their publishing process which they wished to…

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Do We Use Social Media or Does It Use Us?

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Fresh off the electrons is this fascinating piece: “Social Media is using us” by benedikt koehler, who points out how we feed and sustain the flow of data, and that sometimes it seems…

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Are We Losing Ourselves In Cyberspace?

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

A somewhat disconcerting thought crossed my mind the other day. I was wishing that I could access the Internet through my mind. Why be tied down to electronics when you could just surf the net in…

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A Price to Raising Our Children In Cyberspace?

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Saw this posted a bit ago on FriendFeed from our friends over at ReadWriteWeb and it raised some thoughts about how we are incorporating social media into our educational system.
Since I was a kid,…

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ProBlogger Banned by StumbleUpon: Whose Content? Our Content!

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Just saw this from Darren over at ProBlogger. Seems StumbleUpon didn’t like the recent surge from the love-in. Now, StumbleUpon has the right to control who uses their service. However, social…

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ProBlogger Returned to StumbleUpon in Record Time!

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

Just saw this tweet from Darren. That was fast.

But Igor the Troll thinks it might have been a scam.

Either way, that was an amazingly short period of time for a reaction. Thanks to everyone who…

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“i am neurotic.”: Social Therapy and Virtual Healing

August 4th, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

i am neurotic questions the normal divide between the personal and the private realms of life in an interesting way. Here people post their compulsions, fears, and neuroses for the whole world to…

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Hello virtual world!

July 31st, 2008 by socialmediaphilosophy

We are under construction. Please bear with us.

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