Tiny Brain No Obstacle to French Civil Servant - 0 views
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Stellena Nelson on 10 Apr 11Here's an example of the plasticity of the brain that Carr discusses in Into the Shallows
Social Websites Harm Children's Brains - 0 views
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Going along with the Shallow's argument about our changing ability to focus and shortening attention spans, this article addresses that, as well as communication problems.
Google and the Proper Antitrust Scrutiny of Orphan Books - 0 views
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The Shallows talks a lot about Google Books, and many of our books have addressed the issue of copyright. This is a really interesting article about "orphan books" and where they fall into this argument. (An orphan book is one that the copyright has not expired, but where they copyright holder is unknown or can't be found)
ABC news conversation with Nicholas Carr - 0 views
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There are a lot of other videos of interviews with Nicholas Carr so check the "Related Links"
Forgetfulness - Billy Collins - 0 views
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We read this in my American Lit class and I just laughed because I feel like this is what google is doing to our brains! Please enjoy. ;)
Welcome to the Galaxy Zoo: ordinary people classifying galaxies makes one of the world'... - 0 views
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An article that goes a little more in depth about the social aspect/history of the Zooniverse project.
Zooinverse - 0 views
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Call me a science geek but I think this is just too cool. With the advent of newer, more advanced technologies, Astronomers are running into an unusual problem--too much data to go through themselves.Their solutions has been to put it up online and let people (amateur, everyday people) help them out. I think it connects well to Shirky and Remix. Sure puts a whole new spin on "social science".
American Gothic - 0 views
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We discussed this painting in class today. Check out Wikipedia's justification for having the painting
The Ethics of Digital Manipulation - 0 views
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This is a really good article about ethics in the age of photoshop--the ultimate remixing tool!
Creative Commons FAQ - 0 views
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CC made easy! Licenses designed specifically for remixing/re-use while protecting the original creator's desired rights (more or less)
What's the Inverse of Remixing? Unmixing. - 0 views
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A recommended blog post from Lawrence Lessig about "Unmixing."
Netflix Topples Blockbuster - 0 views
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Netflix has taken over the movie world, leaving Blockbuster in financial trouble.
The Secret To Google's Success - 0 views
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Google's innovative ideas have taken it to the top!
More on Rebecca Black - 0 views
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The tale of Rebecca's speedy rise to infamy is just a click away...
A great example of a great example of what not to do... - 0 views
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Something that I brought up during our small-group discussion in class today that I thought I'd share with everyone. Enjoy!
Teaching to the Text Message - 0 views
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College English teacher Andy Selsberg describes how he has been working vernacular, Internet-era composition assignments into his syllabus, assigning good tweets and YouTube comments alongside the traditional five-paragraph essay.
Another book I'm surprised we haven't been asked to read... - 1 views
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The title of it basically speaks for itself, don't you think?
Monkeying around with the gorillas in our midst: familiarity with an inattentional-blin... - 1 views
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An article about the Invisible Gorilla experiment. I think this is interesting not only because of the content, but of how widespread the access to this experiment has been--the youtube video has something like 3,095,286 hits.
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - 1 views
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Here is the article that Bilton references in Chapter 3 when talking about anchoring through Social Networking and how digital natives have mastered this in order to survive the information overload.
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