Posts By: kimberlyrosewaldbillig

Richard Metzger – Promoted Posts and the Economics of Facebook

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 24, 2013

With the presentation of a Skype interview, moderator Miriam Rasch introduced Richard Metzger’s commentary in light of his article “I Want My Friends Back” on DangerousMinds.Net [Twitter, Facebook] As practice against the political economy of social networks, a protest of sorts, it went viral. Metzger’s beef with Facebook is that they initiated algorithm changes without consideration of the trickle-down effects (1). A [...]

Miriyam Aouragh – Social Media as Damocles Sword: The Internet for Arab Activists

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 24, 2013

Miriyam Aouragh’s work with cyberpolitics in the Middle East as well as cyberwarfare in the context of Arab-Israeli conflict has revealed that even scholarly engagement ignores to a large extent the non-media ecology of the Arab activists of the Internet world. In these very special contexts, the materiality of technology is inescapable – her discussion today focuses [...]

Ippolita – Minds Without Bodies: Rites of Religions 2.0

By kimberlyrosewaldbillig, March 23, 2013

Ippolita is an international research and writing collective for convivial research and writings based in Italy. It’s born of hackers that corroborate with media and media technologies as a terrain of struggles for power and control (1). Investigations and workshop topics include: (reality) hacking, free software, and philosophy and anthropology of technologies. Representing a heteronomous (2) [...]