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Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves-double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009).

Nov 14, Medicine & Health/Psychology & Psychiatry Experts have questioned whether Internet addiction constitutes a psychological disorder and an Arlington, Va., group may add it to its diagnostic manual. Members of the American Psychiatric Association have said the organization may include Internet addiction in its next guidebook, while experts debate whether the issue constitutes a psychological problem, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

This study used an experiment embedded within a Web-based survey to examine the influence of contextual (i.e., face-to-face vs. online chat room discussion) and social-psychological factors on individuals' willingness to express opinions. In this experiment, respondents were asked whether they would be willing to express an opinion if they were placed in a face-to-face discussion group in one condition and in an online chat room discussion group in the other condition.

Online teaching vs face to face teaching.

"I need to get off Facebook and write my paper": Plenty of students have seen those statuses posted by friends on Facebook when they were supposed to be studying. Some students even posted that particular status themselves. Facebook has become the biggest distraction for students when trying to get homework done.

An article about internet addiction in South Korea.

In a sweeping victory for free speech rights in cyberspace, the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU in June 1997. The Court granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet, and cyber-activists are still dancing in the streets.

This article is story about a school who tries to remove her school district's policy of blocking gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender informative websites.

Early records of music piracy on the Internet.

this article goes into detail of the role social media is playing and what it is changing.

This video is a really great snapshot of just how important social media is becoming in the market place and how brands and businesses are starting to embrace it for real commercial gains.

If you are interested in Youtube or identity or communities of practice, this is a great video.

This TED talks video contradicts the current view most people hold of intimacy over the web.

Good for papers that include both the social media and music.

The article discusses the use of the online social network Twitter in journalism.

This article discusses the top reasons of why a person would want to join a social networking site.

This article is on differentlevel of anxiety when communicating with online communication and face-to-face communication. Baralt, Melissa, and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss. "Comparing learners' state anxiety during task-based interaction in computer-mediated and face-to-face communication." Language Teaching Research 15.2 (2011): 201-229. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Sept. 2011.

Some info about how terrorists are using the Internet to spread propaganda and encourage the growth of their organizations.