The problem of privacy in capitalism and the alternative social networking site diaspora

TripleC

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 600-617

  Sevignani, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alternative media; Critical internet studies; Fetishism; Ideology; Marx; Privacy; Private property; Social networking sites; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861721442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.394     Document Type: Article

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