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Posts Tagged: critique

Unlike Us #2: Interview with Jodi Dean

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, March 20, 2012

  After her inspiring view on society’s non-existence in relation to social media at the Unlike Us #2 conference on the 9th of March 2012, we got the change to ask Jodi Dean some questions to further explore ‘the social’ and the existence of social media platforms in a capitalist society. (Michelle)  Is building alternatives [...]

Facebook’s Dirty Secret About its Dirty Job

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, February 23, 2012

As one of the most influential online social media platforms, Facebook thrives on the distribution of its users ‘private’ data and is therefore highly dependent on the concept of transparency. Over the years it has however become clear that founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to enjoy the taste of his own medicine. Facebook has always [...]

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