[Air-L] Facebook cencorship and regulation research

Sat Aug 13 01:21:11 PDT 2011

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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Korinna Patelis
<korinna.patelis at cut.ac.cy>wrote:

> Censoring Facebook practices are extremely complicated. We are doing some
> comparative research here in Athens as you might know Facebook did censor
> the Greek uprising of the indignants in greece as well as the rioting
> happening at time in July). Like with all monopoly media research the issue
> of access has again sprung up in that neither Facebook or the local
> authorities are publishing any information on exactly how all this happens
> and participating in our research is not up there in their priorities ( i
> think they mostly dont answer queries cause of lack of staff as oppose to
> anything else). I am however fascinated by the cultural discrepancy between
> local law enforcers and Facebook employes, which is one of the key aspects
> of what we are researching. Anyway the question is: is there anybody doing
> field research on Facebook censorship, that might be interested to share
> with us???????
>
> Korinna Patelis
> Department of Internet and Communications,
> CUT
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