[LINK] The emerging dark side of social networks

[jore]

On 13/04/2014 12:54 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
> [You'd have to have serious doubts about any article where not just 
> the subbie, but even author, claim that 'the dark side of social 
> media' is somehow new, or even so new that it's only 'emergent'.  The 
> risks involved were trumpeted a decade ago.]

Indeed.

Evgeny Morozov is just one name among many that comes to mind whose done
a fairly good job at breaking these issues into mainstream years ago.

TED from 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hFk6FDrZBc

And both his books: 'The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet
Freedom' and 'To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological
Solutionism' are great.

And I'd go even further to say, it's not an "emerging" darkside---the
darkside of all this crap was built in from the beginning---i.e
surveillance state/panopticon/inverted totalitarianism (Chris Hedges).