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This is an article I found on Google Scholar. This article examines the use of social-networking sites and how we really use them to interact with friends. Social-Networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact with our "friends", however it seems that the more friends we have on these sites the less we actually interact with them. This study used Twitter as a means to study just how many "followers" one has and how many of them do they really keep in touch with on a daily basis. This is an important/article I can use for my project because I am studying the use of Twitter and Authorship. Many use Twitter to as a way to elicit thoughts to others, but who are they thoughts going to if they aren't our everyday friends? This study could reveal why so many of our thoughts are being used and taken from us, because we are allowing people to see them who we do not even know. I may be able to use examples from this article to support who uses Twitter and for what reasons.

This is an article I got off of Google Scholar. This article explains a study that was conducted that examined Social-Networking sites and the use of friends. Social-networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact and interact with people we know. However, this study reveals how the more "friends" one has, the less they interact with them. This article looks at just how many people we do use social-networking sites to acutally interact with on a daily basis. Twitter is used in this study to examine how many "followers" people have but how many of them are thier actual friends. This will be a useful site for my project because it examines who uses Twitter and why.

Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

This article deals with the topic of "fair use," which is the copyright doctrine that allows the use of copyrighted works in certain circumstances without having to gain the owner's permission. It also correlated "fair use" with the popular video sharing website YouTube. This source was found through the database Project Muse. It was printed in the University of Texas Press. Its information is credible and useful. As for my project, this article will be helpful in determining if "fair use" applies in connection with fan remix videos of Twilight. Once this is determined, I will be able to better define the creators of these remixes.

This website explains what OpenID is and how it benefits users. Essentially, OpenID is a program that allows users to use a single online identity to log into various websites. The OpenID program saves users time by preventing them from having to create separate profiles for individual websites. Open ID also allows users to be in control of what personal details are revealed online. While the OpenID website states that the program will give users "greater control over [their] online identity," I also feel that the use of this program will discourage users from listing false information about themselves. If Internet users know that the personal details they provide will be available across an array of websites, they will be more likely to provide truthful information. For example, if an individual uses Myspace to meet new people and form online relationships, he or she may be likely to list false personal information in order to impress or attract others. However, if this individual knows that this same information will be shared among his or her professional colleagues through email accounts or other sites, he or she will be less likely to lie.

This site is dedicated to helping Internet users protect their anonymity and their privacy. Anonymity.com offers an anonymity test that helps Internet users to understand what kind of information they are revealing about their identity when surfing the Internet. The anonymity test uses symbols to warn users when they are revealing information that they may not be aware of. The link anonymizer allows Internet users to link to websites without passing along information to the destination site. The site also offers the OpenID Anonymity service. This service is very similar to OpenID. However, users do not have to use a set profile, but can instead remain completely anonymous through the use of randomized user names created by Anonymity.com.

This article might prove useful to those working on Fan Fiction. The beta readers are useful for another set of eyes on a particular work, though they are not always used. FanFiction.net does have betas for authors to contact, but does not automatically provide them. If they did, the quality of the site might be improved.

I first read this story in the DA and it was very intriguing. A hospital in Iowa has allowed surgeons to start "tweeting" the process of their surgery to the patient's family members. It is an easy and efficient way to follow a patient's progress as they go under the knife. The patient's family in this article tracked the developments from a laptop computer in the hospital's waiting room. One of the daughter-in-laws even kept tabs from work. The surgeon sent more than 300 tweets over more than three hours from a computer outside the operating room. Over 700 people followed them, some even asking questions. This is a great way to get glimpse into an actual operating room. Iowa has not been the first hospital to use Twitter, others include Children's Medical Center in Dallas, which tweeted in May when a father donated a kidney to his son, and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where officials have tweeted about several surgeries since January. My question is, is could I use the "tweets" this surgeon is sending and write my own article about the operation? Are the surgeons' tweets copyrighted?

This site emphasizes OpenID's role in ensuring the protection of one's identity. The site explains president Obama's endorsement of OpenID as a means of simplifying the use of government websites. The article states that the use of OpenID on government sites will allow users to access information without revealing a great deal of personal information. This article's discussion of the president's endorsement of OpenID does not lead readers to believe that OpenID will prevent user anonymity, but instead ensure users the privacy and security of their own online identities. Furthermore, Obama aims to make government sites more accessible. If Internet users feel that their identities are protected and secure, they will likely feel more at ease and be more likely to take advantage of the information and features offered on sites.

Newspaper columnist Walter Winchell coined the term 'celebutante' in 1939, referring to socialite Brenda Frazier and other quasi-celebrities of the day. The creation of blogs has morphed the word, resulting in the proliferation of the use of the prefix 'celebu-.' New words created with 'celebu-' have been used on the Internet and in other media to describe a variety of persons with celebrity-like status, including Paris Hilton, thus illustrating the linguistic impact of blogs.

Fell in love with this site. Users can create stories using images and text. Compositions are posted for anyone to view. Shockwave and quicktime are used here. Many different facets to this one site as shown in the links at the top of the page such as photos, stories, video, etc.

This master's thesis uses sociological methods to discover why Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series has become such a cult phenomenon. This article is relevant to my project, which focuses on YouTube "remixes" of the popular series. This article will help to explain why such a large portion of the population is attracted to the series. It may also be useful in ascertaining the force that drives the creators of the videos perpetuate their multimedia expressions.

In another bookmark I posted an article about Iowa being one of the first hospitals to use Twitter in the operating room. The patient underwent a hysterectomy and the surgeon sent over 300 tweets to the patients' family members about the process of the surgery. Here are some of the actual tweets that were sent...

This article questions whether online anonymity is truly possible, and if so, whether or not Internet users should be made to take responsibility for their words and or actions. Ultimately, Zack Whittaker, the article's author, states that individuals should be held responsible for their online behaviors in the same sense that they are held responsible for their actions offline. Whittaker uses the example of Rosemary Port, a woman who used Blogger.com to post insulting photographs and words of verbal abuse directed towards a female model. Under court order, Goggle, the owner of Blogger.com, was forced to reveal the identity of Rosemary Port, who is now suing Goggle for "breach of anonymity." Port clearly felt that her right to remain anonymous had been violated, but does the right to anonymity free Internet users of moral and social responsibility?

Cell phone novels are a big deal in Japan. The novel are written via cell phone using short text messages. Unfortunately for us, they're in Japanese. According to Wired: "A mobile phone novel typically contains between 200 and 500 pages, with each page containing about 500 Japanese characters. The novels are read on a cell phone screen page by page, the way one would surf the web, and are downloadable for around $10 each."

This article studied how students, professors, and graduate instructors feel about using multimedia in large lecture halls. Over half of the students reported that multimedia in the classroom stimulated their interest in the subject. This article explains how more and more technology/multimedia is being used to teach students.

Future Foundation is a UK based company that I worked for as an intern this past summer. One of the projects I worked on was the planning and organization of a client conference. At the conference, Future Foundation speakers used Twitter as a way to facilitate discussion and recieve feedback from clients throughout their presentations. This website uses Twitter to keep clients and/or potential clients updated on the research that is being completed for the Future Foundation databases.

This site is set up exactly like Google.com, but instead of searching the entire web it only searches Twitter messages. The purpose of this site (if there is one) is to type in whatever word or phrase you want and it will search through thousands of Twitter messages and bring up the ones where your words appear in. For example if I type the word "school" into the Twitter Search, it will bring back anyone's status that currently has the word school in it. This site also represents multimedia authorship because it taking people's tweets and allowing others to read them freely without knowing whose status it is. I never asked for anyone to search a word and to use my tweet just because it comes up on this search engine. I would like read about the terms of use in the Twitter website and if it does state that your tweets are open to anyone, because I think it is truly crazy how there are websites designed to spy and allow others to read what you are typing.

This article remarks on the efficiency of blogs in reporting news and other world events. The article tells how news about major events such as September 11th and the Indian Ocean tsunami was posted on blogs before it appeared on major news sites. The article goes on to tell how blogs were used to collect relief supplies and donations for disasters. This example demonstrates how Internet users throughout the country and the world are using anonymous sites, such as blogging sites, to reach out to one another during times of need. Bloggers can connect with readers and other bloggers and even send money and donations to causes without having to reveal their identities.

This blog is written by a published author. He has written and continues to write books about software or code. In this blog post he discusses authorship in terms of open source. He makes an argument about how writing in general should be treated more like open source software is created. I am using his assertions to help development my claims that sites like webook.com are open source communities that allow authors to share ideas.

This blog is written by a published author. He has written and continues to write books about software or code. In this blog post he discusses authorship in terms of open source. He makes an argument about how writing in general should be treated more like open source software is created. I am using his assertions to help development my claims that sites like webook.com are open source communities that allow authors to share ideas.

Twitter SPY displays the Twitter public timeline in a fancy and addictive way!