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Smile and Say 'No Photoshop'

For Teenagers, Hello Means 'How About a Hug?'

Texting May Be Taking a Toll

Jorge Colombo drew this week's cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Times Square.

Taking advantage of all the abandoned retail spaces in urban areas, marketers are leasing them at cut-rate prices and filling them with their ads.

Should the FTC make sure there is truth in Advertising on the Web, especially in Blogs and Tweets?

Should the FTC make sure there is truth in Advertising on the Web, especially in Blogs and Tweets?

"The Kindle's challenge to reach 100 million sales may not have to do with price primarily. It will probably have more to do with people's media consumption habits."

In a piece reminiscent of classic "60 Minutes," USC journalism student Matt Schrader exposes the dirty side of parking enforcement and street cleaning in downtown Los Angeles. Schrader found that while parking enforcement is out in droves ticketing cars, and mostly on street cleaning days (making the city $15,000 an hour!), the streets they're patrolling aren't even being cleaned. The best line of the piece is from a guy who got ticketed on one of those streets: "They have the manpower to ticket you, but they don't have the manpower to actually do the job."

In a piece reminiscent of classic "60 Minutes," USC journalism student Matt Schrader exposes the dirty side of parking enforcement and street cleaning in downtown Los Angeles. Schrader found that while parking enforcement is out in droves ticketing cars, and mostly on street cleaning days (making the city $15,000 an hour!), the streets they're patrolling aren't even being cleaned. The best line of the piece is from a guy who got ticketed on one of those streets: "They have the manpower to ticket you, but they don't have the manpower to actually do the job."

"A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook. [Her insurer] confirmed that it uses the popular social networking site to investigate clients."

This article talks about how it is essential for young children to be educated in Media Literacy so they can thoroughly evaluate and analyze bias' in this technological age that these kids become increasingly immersed in as the grow older. The author of this article suggests that the education of Media Literacy should be universally implemented into school's curriculums to train these children to become critical thinkers in the Media World

Through things you've searched, videos you've watched and e-mails you've sent, google creates a profile about you, whether you have a google account or not. Though google claims it uses your profile to make its services work better, it actually uses this information to sell you to advertisers. By the things you search, google decides what advertisements to show.

This article isn't talking so much about how people are using media literacy but is rather really showing how much it is needed today. Here we see that the Chinese people feel that it is really a necessity to have media literacy in high schools and elementary schools as well. They also believe that it is important to have media literacy because it will enhance global citizenship as well as domestic citizenship. This idea was also organized by the Communication University of China

"How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet" Ars revisits those wild and crazy days when Jay Gould ruled the telegraph and Associated Press reporters helped fix presidential elections. Is government supervision really the worst thing that can happen to a communications network?"

"On March 16, 2007, a great thing happened in Culver City, California. For the first time ever, all three contestants of the game show Jeopardy, without ending in a score of zero, tied. At the time, at least two incorrect interpretations of this event were made; one being that it was a chance occurrence, the other that it was caused by mistake."