From korinna.patelis@cut.ac.cy Sat Aug 13 01:12:09 2011 From: Korinna Patelis To: air-l@lists.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Facebook cencorship and regulation research Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:12:09 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8628953953269962980==" --===============8628953953269962980== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Censoring Facebook practices are extremely complicated. We are doing some com= parative research here in Athens as you might know Facebook did censor the Gr= eek uprising of the indignants in greece as well as the rioting happening at = time in July). Like with all monopoly media research the issue of access has = again sprung up in that neither Facebook or the local authorities are publish= ing any information on exactly how all this happens and participating in our = research is not up there in their priorities ( i think they mostly dont answe= r queries cause of lack of staff as oppose to anything else). I am however fa= scinated by the cultural discrepancy between local law enforcers and Facebook= employes, which is one of the key aspects of what we are researching. Anyway= the question is: is there anybody doing field research on Facebook censorshi= p, that might be interested to share with us??????? Korinna Patelis Department of Internet and Communications,=20 CUT

--===============8628953953269962980==-- From companys@stanford.edu Sat Aug 13 01:21:32 2011 From: Yosem Companys To: air-l@lists.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook cencorship and regulation research Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:21:11 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0716479354001284273==" --===============0716479354001284273== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You should check out Stanford's Liberationtech Program: - liberationtechnology.stanford.edu (home page) - https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech (1K+ researchers of many topics, including net freedom & censorship) - https://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech (news & opinion on many topics, including net freedom & censorship) On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Korinna Patelis wrote: > Censoring Facebook practices are extremely complicated. We are doing some > comparative research here in Athens as you might know Facebook did censor > the Greek uprising of the indignants in greece as well as the rioting > happening at time in July). Like with all monopoly media research the issue > of access has again sprung up in that neither Facebook or the local > authorities are publishing any information on exactly how all this happens > and participating in our research is not up there in their priorities ( i > think they mostly dont answer queries cause of lack of staff as oppose to > anything else). I am however fascinated by the cultural discrepancy between > local law enforcers and Facebook employes, which is one of the key aspects > of what we are researching. Anyway the question is: is there anybody doing > field research on Facebook censorship, that might be interested to share > with us??????? > > Korinna Patelis > Department of Internet and Communications, > CUT > > > > >

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