First Monday March 2013

Readers:

First Monday has just published the March 2013 (volume 18, number 3)
issue, a special issue entitled "Unlike Us: Understanding social media
monopolies," at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

The following papers are included in this month's issue:

First Monday
Volume 18, number 3 - 4 March 2013

Special issue: Unlike Us: Understanding social media monopolies

Introduction: Understanding social media monopolies
by Korinna Patelis and Pavlos Hatzopoulos

Society doesn't exist
by Jodi Dean

Silence, delirium, lies?
by Caroline Bassett

What's on your mind? Social media monopolies and noopower
by Robert Gehl

Smell the fish: Digital Disneyland and the right to oblivion
by Oliver Leistert

Social media as a government propaganda tool in post-revolutionary Egypt
by Sara El-Khalili

Facebook.com text: Industrialising personal data production
by Korinna Patelis

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With the contents of the March 2013 issue, First Monday has published,
since May 1996, 1,256 papers in 202 issues, written by 1,674 different
authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday