Pharma Google Hijack Hack
I’ve been hacked again. When you search for “tiara org” or “tiara blog” on Google, and click on the tiara.org/blog result, you get directed to a lovely site pharmacy.multifind24.com, full of spammy spam spam. Fixing this has been.. frustrating. I have a totally updated WP install. I have fresh passwords on everything. I installed the...
Big revamping!
So I finally went ahead and updated tiara.org for the first time since 2008. It was sort of embarrassing. Now it has a shiny new look– aka “All the HTML I remember from my last job hand-coding HTML which was in 2003″ — and several new pages. Info about my dissertation is, surprisingly, on the...
Social Surveillance in Every Day Life
I’m lucky to be in Toronto this weekend, interacting with amazing colleagues like Chris Soghoian, Priscilla Regan, Leslie Regan Shade, Lee Tien, Finn Brunton, David Phillips, David Lyon, and too many others to mention. We’re all here for the Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday life workshop, sponsored by the Surveillance Studies Centre at the University of Toronto....
How Teens Understand Privacy
Danah and I just released a new article draft. Here’s danah’s introduction to it: In the fall, danah boyd and Alice Marwick went into the field to understand teens’ privacy attitudes and practices. We’ve blogged some of our thinking since then but we’re currently working on turning our thinking into a full-length article. We are...
Hacked again
I’m trying real hard not to be a biznatch about this, but for the second time in two years, Dreamhost got hacked and now I have to comb through my WordPress install and figure out where this “Canadian pharmacy” spam that shows up in my Google results comes from. It’s going to take me a...
2011 Spring/Summer Conference Schedule
Believe it or not, I do stuff besides talk to the press. This year I think I’m attending a record number of conferences! Some I’m presenting dissertation work, and some on my new fashion blogger project. I hope to see lots of new friends and colleagues this spring and summer. February 16-20: Privacy and Security...
Twitter & Privacy: Kids Learning How to Manage Life in Public
Danah and I have an editorial in the Guardian today titled “Tweeting teens can handle public life”. Here’s an exerpt: …Not all teens use Twitter, and those who do don’t all use it in the same way. The sense of what’s appropriate on Twitter varies wildly by social group and locale – is it OK...
CNN: Online Sharing, the rock n’ roll of the digital generation
I was apparently CNN’s go-to privacy researcher last week as I’m heavily quoted in this (pretty good) piece on young people and sharing: Alice Marwick, a social-media researcher for Microsoft Research, predicts that the stereotype of young people oversharing online may be starting to fade. “I think that, a few years ago when this concern...
CNN on “the end of privacy”
John Sutter from CNN interviewed me for this story that provides a broad overview of information-sharing concerns. I think it’s fairly balanced, and I’m also happy that this quote made it in: “The teenagers and 20-somethings we talk to — a huge aspect of their social life goes on online,” Marwick said. “Not participating in...
Fashion as Participatory Culture
Whenever I start a new project, I end up floundering around, investigating various fields and subfields until things start coalescing. I’m definitely in the floundering stage with this fashion blogger project. So I’ve been uncovering things that are familiar. One of these areas is copyright law, and the general theories of free/participatory culture. On one...
Great CFP on street style: “the Urban Catwalk”
This looks terrific! I’m going to submit something on my fashion bloggers project. Although I’m very tempted to submit something on the Gaga. The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, April 23 2011 | Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut Keynote Address: Caroline Weber, Barnard/Columbia Please email all questions and abstracts to madison moore, madison.moore@yale.edu...
Preview: To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter
I’ve added a draft version of “To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter,” a paper I wrote with danah boyd last summer which will be published in Convergence sometime next year. Download draft [pdf file] Abstract: Social media technologies let people connect by creating and sharing content. We examine the use of Twitter...
