Facebook and Philosophy

MICHAEL V. BUTERA is currently finishing a PhD in the ASPECT program at Virginia Tech. His dissertation is within the emerging field of Sound Studies, specifically the categorization of sounds perceptually and socio-logically. Other interests generally include technologies of music and media production. Not yet convinced that Facebook is the future of social interaction, he has taken to writing postcards on a typewriter . . . if you believe his current status update.

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JOHN CLULOW is on indefinite leave from a normal working life, occasionally being employed as a geologist, waiter, teacher, journalist, bartender or editor. He prefers sitting in cafes trying to take his own advice and not checking to see who’s on Facebook every 5 minutes, as it takes up his very precious time spent thinking, talking about things that are ridiculously important. And drinking coffee.

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CRAIG A. CONDELLA is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where his academic interests include the philosophy of technology, environmental ethics, and the history and philosophy of science. Heeding Aristotle’s advice that the friend is another self, he created a second Facebook account in the hope that his other self could take care of his paper grading.

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MARGARET A. CUONZO is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Humanities Division at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, where she specializes in philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of science. A world-class procrastinator, Cuonzo also cultivates two large virtual farms and operates an impressive organized crime ring as “Maggie Knuckles” on MobWars.

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WADDICK DOYLE lives in Paris and has lots of former students from all over the world who are now Facebook friends. He teaches in and runs the Communications and Film Division at American University of Paris. He feels that self-expression is just another form of control. His children will not let him be their Facebook friends and he wants to know why.

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ABROL FAIRWEATHER loves teaching Philosophy so much that he splits time between the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and Las Positas College. He received his PhD in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, has published in the area of Virtue Epistemology, and is pursuing a recent interest in Philosophy of Emotion. His personal interests are focused on his wonderful daughter Barbara, ridiculously hot Bikram yoga classes, and an occasional leap into the cool abyss. Follow him on Facebook if you’d like to hear all about what sandwich he is eating at the moment, or to discuss churros.

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MATTHEW FRASER is Associate Professor at the American University of Paris where he teaches in the MA program in Global Communications. He returned to academia after a long career in the media as a newspaper columnist, television host, advisor to governments and Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s daily National Post. His research has focused on the media industries and, more recently, on the social, economic and political impact of online social networks like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. He is the author of several books, including Weapons of Mass Distraction: Soft Power and American Empire (2005) and Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work, and World (2008). He lives in Paris with a bichon called Oscar.

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HOMERO GIL DE ZÚÑIGA is Assistant Professor at University of Texas—Austin. He heads the Center for Journalism and Communication Research in the School of Journalism at UT and has published academic research studies dealing with all forms of new technologies and digital media and their effects on society. Given the increasing number of social network sites and other social media outlets he needs to be up-to-date with, his main goal in life now gears toward securing a large grant that will allow him to pay for a Social Media Assistant to manage his virtual alter ego.

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JAMES GRIMMELMANN is Associate Professor at New York Law School. A former programmer, he studies the connections between law and computers. He’s also written about search engines and virtual worlds; Facebook was far and away the most fun to research.

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JODI HALPERN, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley. Halpern, a psychiatrist and philosopher (introspection squared!) is the author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice, (2001). She also has a playful, curious eight-year-old son who wants to know everything in the world about technology. She is having fun keeping up with him by finally entering the digital age.

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MAURICE HAMINGTON is an unnatural cross between a feminist, a philosopher, a Trekkie, and a vegan who works at Metropolitan State College of Denver teaching women’s studies and ethics courses. He has two PhDs, been tenured twice, married once, and has authored or edited six books but almost never changes his Facebook status. Why?

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DEANYA LATTIMORE is adjuncting while she finishes her PhD in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric program at Syracuse; her dissertation focuses on social media and is called “AFK while I’m Rezzing: Community Literacy and Second Life.” Although she has migrated from YoVille to Second Life, she loves receiving Krispy Kremes and Shite Gifts, and she is the creator of the Emoticon Appreciation Society and several Habborelated groups on Facebook.

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ELIZABETH LOSH is a rhetorician and an expert on online politeness, but despite this she champions many kinds of bad Internet behavior and has written essays defending lying, showing off, stealing, and taking advantage of others. She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (2009) and is currently working on Early Adopters: The Instructional Technology Movement and the Myth of the Digital Generation.

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MIMI MARINUCCI teaches both Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Washington University when not occupied by YoVille, FarmVille, Bejeweled Blitz, or one of the many distractions available on Facebook. She is especially interested in how and what we learn through popular culture, and has published a number of articles at the intersection of philosophy and pop culture. Examples include “There’s Something Queer about The Onion,” (The Onion and Philosophy); “Television, Generation X, and Third-Wave Feminism: A Contextual Analysis of the Brady Bunch” (Journal of Popular Culture, 38.3, Feb. 2005); and “Feminism and the Ethics of Violence: Why Buffy Kicks Ass” (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy).

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GRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media, and Journalism at the University of Stirling in the UK. He has published books about news and about Internet activism. His FB status quite often reads ‘404’, and, at the time of writing, his profile photo is a picture of a fence, which suggests you’re probably not going to get much more biographical detail out of him.

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RICHARD MORGAN is a Europe-based journalist, writer and editor. He has lived and studied in England, France and Germany, doing a little bit of work every now and again when necessary. A late comer to Facebook, he has yet to make a single status update or add more than a solitary profile picture, but he still finds the site useful for exploring the fascinating lives everybody else appears to lead.

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SARA LOUISE MUHR is a post-doctoral researcher at Lund University, Sweden. Although she is paid by a business department, most of her work concerns philosophically-inspired discussions on topics such as gossip, cyborgs, and pole dancing. Sara unfortunately neglects her Facebook self too much, which is probably why Facebook tells her that she is a custard tart. She is not happy about being tagged in pictures taken in the early ’90s, but loves Facebook for giving her the opportunity to pry into other people’s lives.

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MICHAEL PEDERSEN is an Assistant Professor in Management Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, researching contemporary work-life issues such as self-management, stress, and well-being with inspiration from philosophers such as Deleuze, Lazzarato and Žižek. Once a big fan of Facebook, he is no longer as interpassive online as he used to be.

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JEREMY SARACHAN is an Assistant Professor of Communication/ Journalism at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He teaches courses on virtual worlds and cyberculture, digital media, web design, and documentary film. He’s used Facebook for course management, to friend famous authors, and for research. Thus, he considers all time spent on Facebook well spent, alleviating all guilt that he’s just procrastinating. Yeah, right.

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TREBOR SCHOLZ teaches Internet Studies at The New School in New York City. As founder of the Institute for Distributed Creativity, Dr. Scholz’s academic interests include the digital economy, media education, and activism. He is working on a monograph and an anthology about distributed labor. In 2009, he convened a conference about digital labor and while he feels ever more expropriated by Facebook, he still uses the service with fierce regularity. http://digitallabor.org/

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MATTHEW TEDESCO is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Beloit College. He works primarily in normative ethics, and he’s been glad to use this chapter as an excuse to spend time on Facebook and call it research.

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MARIAM THALOS is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. She’s omnivorously, even indiscriminately interested in fundamental philosophical questions that are converged on by a wide range of academic disciplines. She’s currently working on two book projects: The Natural History of the Will and, for a wider audience, Philosophy Is of Familiar Things: Philosophical Thought in Lay Contexts. She cannot be found on Facebook. She has maybe a dozen friends and knows every one by face. And she’s not following any of them except to the grave.

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SEBASTIÁN VALENZUELA is a doctoral student in the J-School of the University of Texas at Austin. When not procrastinating on Facebook and Twitter, he conducts research on political communication, social media, and journalism. As he comes from Chile, you’ll often find that his Tweets and Status Updates are in Spanish. However, most of his serious work (like journal articles) is available in English at academia.edu.

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RUNE VEJBY is an MA student in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. His primary research interests revolve around the impact of the media on interpersonal relations and power structures, the causes and effects of violence, urbanism, and the contemporary effects of capitalism. And by the way he can’t remember how life was like before Facebook . . . a little bit scary, actually!

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TAMARA L. WANDEL is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Evansville. Her latest research focuses on social media and corporate branding, and she holds a 2009-10 fellowship through the Society for New Communications Research. She extends a special thanks to her children, nine-year-old Brock and six-year-old Layla, for teaching her the nuances of the online world of Webkinz. Technology has come a long way since she was a New York journalist with a bagged cell phone the size of a bread loaf stashed safely in the trunk of her blue-streak metallic Toyota Tercel.

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D.E. WITTKOWER teaches philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Coastal Carolina University, where he has friended many, students and faculty alike. He is a father of two wonderful cats, two just-as-wonderful step-cats, over two hundred orchids, and one human boy-child who he will embarrass horribly in later life. In addition to editing iPod and Philosophy and Mr. Monk and Philosophy, he writes on business ethics, new media ethics, and online aesthetics and culture. At various different times, he has had a difficult and troubled relationship with FarmVille, Bejeweled Blitz, Word Challenge, Pet Society, Treasure Madness, and PackRat, but has been clean for weeks now.