Sunday, 1 November 2009

Foucault and Facebook

Working out what I'm going to teach this term to do with identity and the online age (media studies), I thought I might look at ideas of hegemony, social control and Foucault around Facebook. I googled Foucault and Facebook, et voila:

http://veronicawaisberg.blogspot.com/2008/10/week-7.html
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/foucaults-facebook/
http://criticaltheoryforum.blogspot.com/2007/05/foucault-versus-facebook.html
http://foucaultblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/facebook-is-the-new-panopticon/