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Digital Media as a Civic Engagement Tool - For Educators - ITVS - 0 views

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Introducing students to digital citizenship and activism

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Liveplasma - Discovery Engine / Amazon mashup - 1 views

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search mashup Amazon Visualization

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A visually rich application that combines the Amazon API to show the relationship between movies, bands, actors, etc. You can go straight from interacting to making purchases

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#haiku - Twitter / Flickr mashup - 1 views

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mashup flickr twitter digital humanities

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An example of a mashup of Twitter and Flickr drawing upon the hashtag #haiku

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The Open Video Landscape: 90+ Web Sources You Might Have Missed « EUscreen - 2 views

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open video sources

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Source for open content for video

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The Internet? We Built That - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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it’s impossible to overstate the importance of peer production to the modern digital world.
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What sounds on the face of it like the most utopian of collectivist fantasies — millions of people sharing their ideas with no ownership claims — turns out to have made possible the communications infrastructure of our age.
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Peer networks laid the foundation for the scientific revolution during the Enlightenment, via the formal and informal societies and coffeehouse gatherings where new research was shared. The digital revolution has made it clear that peer networks can work wonders in the modern age.
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We have an endless supply of folklore about heroic entrepreneurs who changed the world with their vision and their force of will. But as a society we lack master narratives of creative collaboration.
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what the Internet and its descendants teach us is that there are now new models for doing things together, success stories that prove convincingly that you don’t need bureaucracies to facilitate public collaboration, and you don’t need the private sector to innovate
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WordsDay: Entropy in literature | Scholars and Rogues - 0 views

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I Heard You Like Feedback Loops | Oscillator, Scientific American Blog Network - 1 views

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cybernetics Norbert Wiener control communication

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A basic introduction to control theory and cybernetics (now applied to biology)

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MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Matthew Battles on Going Feral on the Net: the ... - 0 views

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feral wild net podcast Berkman

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Explores the metaphor of the internet as a wild

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Hackasaurus - 2 views

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remix tool service

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A remix tool for education

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How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers i... - 1 views

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amateur pro-am photography creative commons

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An example of someone succeeding at photography by seeking only reputation, not money, by publishing his work as Creative Commons-licensed.

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Content Curation World - 1 views

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curation content

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An excellent aggregation of content related to curation (recommended by Ellis Dyck)

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Computer History Museum - 1 views

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Pong (1972, Atari) - YouTube - 1 views

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video game history

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Pong was both a console game for the home Atari system, as well as an arcade, stand-alone machine.

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High Tech History | A weblog exploring computer technology, digital history and early h... - 0 views

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technology history blog

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Great background on key players and places in the development of tech and computing

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Internet of Things and Kickstarter - Internet of Things News | Postscapes - 0 views

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Recommended by Chris Anderson

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My So-Called Second Life: Are You Your Avatar? | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific Ame... - 1 views

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An account of a science writer broadcasting a podcast from Second Life. Includes brief and helpful background on the history of avatars and their social function and best practices. A good intro to avatars.

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I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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social media friendship relationships Facebook nytimes weak ties

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Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye
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This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting
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A 2008 article in which the new kinds of digital relationships made possible through Facebook and other social media are discussed. Digital friends have "ambient awareness" through news feeds, begging the question about kind of friendship and their authenticity.

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The Rise Of Visual Social Media | Fast Company - 0 views

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Will photos replace text messages as the connecting medium of choice?

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Things as They Really Are - Ensign June 2010 - ensign - 0 views

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Bednar LDS internet danger reality

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A key talk about the digital realm from the point of view of an LDS apostle.

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Ravelry and knitting: Why Facebook can't match the social network for knitters. - Slate... - 1 views

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social network knitting

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Benefits of a social network for a niche interest community (knitting)

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