Since its launch in 2013, hundreds of researchers and journalists have received access to The Zuckerberg Files. Here are just some of the publications that have utilized the archive.
If you’ve used the archive in support of your work, please let us know.
Videos
- The Facebook Dilemma (2018). PBS Frontline.
- Order of Magnitude (2019). Benjamin Grosser
Books
- Coen, Noam (2017). The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball. The New Press.
- Levy, Steven (2019). Facebook: The inside story. Blue Rider Press.
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva (2018). Antisocial media: How Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy. Oxford University Press.
Journalism & Essays
- Hoffmann, A. L. (2014, June 30). Reckoning with a Decade of Breaking Things: The Zuckerberg Files and Facebook’s Enduring Contempt for the World. Model View Culture.
- Hoffmann, A. L. (2016, April 19). Facebook is worried about users sharing less – but it only has itself to blame. The Guardian.
- Hoffmann, A. L. (2016, September 2). The Zuckerberg Files: everything the Facebook CEO has said publicly. The Guardian.
- Morais, B. (2013). Sharing is caring is sharing. The New Yorker.
- McHugh, M. (2019). A Brief History of Facebook’s Party Lines on Privacy. The Ringer.
- Proferes, N. (2018). The Many Mea Culpas of Mark Zuckerberg. Slate: Future Tense.
- Taddonio, P. (2018). Finding Zuckerberg: How FRONTLINE Amassed an Archive of the Facebook Founder. PBS Frontline.
- Wong, J. and Botnik Studios. (2019). ‘I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump’: a conversation with the Zuckerbot. The Guardian.
- Zimmer, M. (2014, February 4). Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy. The Washington Post, C1-C2.
Academic Publications
- Casilli, A. (2015). Four Theses on Digital Mass Surveillance and the Negotiation Of Privacy. 8th Annual Privacy Law Scholar Congress, Berkeley, CA (also posted at Medium.com)
- Cirucci, A. M. (2015). Facebook’s Affordances, Visible Culture, and Anti-anonymity. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Media & Society. New York, NY
- Cirucci, A. M. (2017). Normative interfaces: Affordances, gender, and race in Facebook. Social Media+ Society, 3(2).
- Cirucci, A. M. (2018). Facebook and Unintentional Celebrification. In Microcelebrity Around the Globe, in Crystal Abidin, Megan Lindsay Brown (ed.) Microcelebrity Around the Globe (pp. 33-45). Emerald Publishing Limited.
- Draper, N. A. (2017). From Privacy Pragmatist to Privacy Resigned: Challenging Narratives of Rational Choice in Digital Privacy Debates. Policy & Internet, 9(2), 232-251.
- Haimson, O. and Hoffmann, A. L. (2016). Constructing and enforcing “authentic” identity online: Facebook, real names, and non-normative identities. First Monday, 21(6).
- Healey, K., & Potter, R. (2018). Coding the Privileged Self: Facebook and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis “Outside the Clinic”. Television & New Media, 19(7), 660-676.
- Hill, S., & Bradshaw, P. (2018). Mobile-First Journalism: Producing News for Social and Interactive Media. Routledge.
- Hoffmann, A. L., Proferes, N., and Zimmer, M. (2016) “Making the World More Open and Connected”: Mark Zuckerberg and the Discursive Construction of Facebook and Its Users. New Media & Society. [The authors have made available the document index and codebook used in this research publication.]
- Jacobsen, J. T. (2020). The post-politics of public-private security governance: An ideology critique of the complaints about Facebook. European Journal of International Security, 5(2), 179-194.
- Jørgensen, R. F. (2019). Rights Talk: In the Kingdom of Online Giants. Human Rights in the Age of Platforms, 163.
- Lee, N. (2014). Social Networks and Privacy. In Facebook Nation (pp. 23-70). Springer, New York, NY.
- Salisbury, M., & Pooley, J. D. (2017). The #nofilter Self: The Contest for Authenticity among Social Networking Sites, 2002–2016. Social Sciences, 6(1), 10.
- Segovia, S. (2015). “Privacy: An Issue of Priority, Hastings Business Law Journal, 11(1), 193-224.
- Zimmer, M. and Hoffmann, A. L. (2014). Privacy and Control in Mark Zuckerberg’s Discourse on Facebook, Selected Papers of Internet Research 15 – Boundaries and Intersections, Daegu, Korea.
