Aspasia Tsaoussi (AUTh): Facebook, Privacy and the Challenges of Protecting Minors on Social Networking Sites. From The New Yorker, a woman’s place: Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture? From Business Week, why Facebook needs Sheryl Sandberg: Mark Zuckerberg's second-in-command provides "adult supervision" at the company, trying to keep growth at an optimum level. Investigating Facebook: Shane Witnov on the ethics of using social networking websites in legal investigations. David Soskin on what (not) to do to succeed online, and how to learn from Google and Facebook. The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace: It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture; Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it — then everything fell apart. Social media confronts us with how little control we have over our public identity, which is put into play and reinterpreted and tossed around while we watch. Life As a Stock Photo: Social media makes it seem natural and validating that one could consider selling one's snapshots to marketers and publishers so that they could be used for some commercial purpose. Here are 5 reasons Twitter isn't actually overthrowing governments. Mind control and the Internet: A review of World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet by Michael Chorost, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser (and more and more and more) and You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier. Some traditional critics would have you believe the Internet is an intellectual wasteland — they are so wrong. Blogmanship: How to win arguments on the Internet without really knowing what you are talking about.
