Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? (Popular Culture and Philosophy 50)

Facebook and Philosophy is an entertaining, multi-faceted exploration of what Facebook means for us and for our relationships. With discussions ranging from the nature of friendship and its relationship to "friending," to the (debatable) efficacy of "online activism," this book is the most extensive and systematic attempt to understand Facebook yet. And with plenty of new perspectives on Twitter and Web 2.0 along the way, this fun, thought-provoking book is a serious and significant contribution for anyone working with social media, whether in academia, journalism, public relations, activism, or business. Exploring far-reaching questions — Can our interactions on Facebook help us care about each other more? Does Facebook signal the death of privacy, or (perhaps worse yet) the death of our desire for privacy? — Facebook and Philosophy is vital reading for anyone involved in social networks today. News Feed Profile Pages A Reply to facebook Critics Who Uses facebook and Why? facebook Itself 1 The Privacy Virus 2 It’s Like Talking to a Wall 3 Ian Became a Fan of Marshall McLuhan on facebook and Suggested You Become a Fan Too 4 With Friends Like These,Who Needs Enemies? The Profile and the Self 5 Profile Picture, Right Here, Right Now 6 You Can’t Front on facebook 7 Why I Am Not a Friend 8 Playing Around with Identity 9 Spectacle 2.0? facebook Friends 10 Why Can’t We Be Virtual Friends? 11 The Friendship that Makes No Demands 12 Care Ethics, Friendship, and facebook 13 What Are Friends For? Social Networking Dear Facebook 15 Gossip and the Evolution of facebook 16 facebook as an Excess of Seeing 17 Do Status Updates Have Any Value? 18 Gatekeeper, Moderator, Synthesizer Activity and Passivity 19 facebook, Surveillance and Power 20 Wall to Wall or Face to Face 21 facebook as Playground and Factory 22 The Proles and Cons of facebook 23 Faking It on facebook Keyword Search This volume is an entertaining, multi-faceted exploration of what Facebook means for us and for our relationships. Facebook is a social networking service and website that launched in 2004. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. With discussions ranging from the nature of friendship and its relationship to "friending," to the (debatable) efficacy of "online activism," this book is a systematic attempt to understand Facebook, also offering perspectives on Twitter and Web 2.0