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Tag Archives: privacy
Mar 17 2013
Book Review: Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
Leave a commentTweet In Life after New Media, Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska make a case for a significant shift in our understanding of new media. They argue that we should move beyond our fascination with objects such as smart phones to … Continue reading
Posted by: March 17, 2013
Tagged with: media, mediation, New Media, privacy, social media
Jan 20 2013
Book Review: Social Media as Surveillance: rethinking visibility in a converging world
1 CommentTweet Within a few years social media has become an ordinary part of our everyday lives. So too increasingly have fears about the impact this technology has had on privacy. In Social Media As Surveillance Daniel Trottier presents empirical research with a range of … Continue reading
Posted by: January 20, 2013
Tagged with: privacy, social media, surveillance
Dec 28 2012
2012: A pivotal year for privacy?
Leave a commentTweet In the first of our year in review series, Paul Bernal reflects on 2012 and its implications for privacy and communication. He argues that 2012 could come to have been a pivotal year in the politics of privacy. 2012 has … Continue reading
Posted by: December 28, 2012
Tagged with: civil liberties, communications, privacy
Dec 5 2012
All three major political parties are deeply conflicted over the politics of privacy
Leave a commentTweet The proposed Communications Data Bill has proved deeply controversial, generating widespread debate about privacy and civil liberties. Paul Bernal offers an overview of the dynamics within each of the major political parties on such issues and argues that the politics of privacy are … Continue reading
Posted by: December 5, 2012
Tagged with: civil liberties, communications data bill, privacy
May 8 2012
The government’s proposal for data communications surveillance will be invasive and costly with minimal effectiveness
4 CommentsTweet The government has proposed providing law enforcement officials with unprecedented access to internet communications. Joss Wright argues that this amounts to a hugely expensive and invasive scheme that will have only minimal effectiveness in achieving its stated goals. The means through which … Continue reading
Posted by: May 8, 2012
Tagged with: liberty, privacy, security, surveillance
Oct 9 2011
Book Review: Tales From Facebook
1 CommentTweet Daniel Miller‘s book is a welcome and distinctive contribution to what is currently a small body of work on emerging online social networks, finds Chris Gilson. Tales from Facebook. Daniel Miller. Polity Books. July 2011. Find this book: Facebook, the … Continue reading
Posted by: October 9, 2011
Tagged with: communication, digital, discussion, Facebook, media, online, privacy, social media, social relationships
Jul 13 2011
The internet never forgets: government measures to protect privacy are unlikely to succeed in the social media age
Leave a commentTweet The recent furore over the unmasking of holders of super-injunctions via Twitter has led some to claim that in the social media age, clamping down on privacy by governments will fail. Dr Paul Reilly looks at two recent cases … Continue reading
Posted by: July 13, 2011
Tagged with: Google, government on the web, injunction, Jeremy Hunt, privacy, privacy law, Ryan Giggs, social media, superinjunction, Twitter, uk parliament
Jun 29 2011
The perceived breakdown in the legal regime of privacy protection can be addressed by certain amendments to the Human Rights Act
Leave a commentTweet Following on from an Index on Censorship debate on privacy, free speech and a feral press at LSE, Andrew Scott reviews events of the ‘Privacy Spring’ and finds that while we do not need a new privacy law, some … Continue reading
Posted by: June 29, 2011
Tagged with: government, Human Rights Act, politics, power, privacy, privacy law, superinjunction
