The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world - everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow," an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications. Web Squared is our way of exploring this phenomenon and giving it a name.
David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. His research focuses on children's and young people's interactions with electronic media, and on media education.
The mission of The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is to catalyze and support research, innovation and investment in digital media technologies to advance children's learning.
Phone makers should be happy: the worldwide market is enjoying strong growth in sales of phones and a boom in smartphone sales, which grew by almost 50% compared to the recession-hit first quarter last year