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Reputation on the line; Before posting those wild party photos on Facebook, keep in min... - 0 views

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shared by Donna DesRoches on 09 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna DesRoches on 09 Dec 09
     
    Star Phoenix - (available in Canadian Newstand database) According to the University of Victoria political science PhD candidate and digital media researcher, students -- especially those on the verge of graduating and heading out into the working world -- should be aware of their digital reputation. According to Norah McRae, executive director of UVic's Co-operative Education Program and Career Services, there aren't any statistics that show exactly what percentage of employers will Google
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A Better Safety Net: It's time to get smart about online safety - 11/1/2009 - School Li... - 0 views

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shared by Donna DesRoches on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna DesRoches on 02 Nov 09
     
    Online safety must be relevant to youth, or we're talking to ourselves. It must accommodate the growing body of research on youth risk and what kids themselves say about how they use digital media, and it must be respectful-of both young people and the new media conditions they're ably exploiting.
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Fear of Screens - The New Inquiry - 0 views

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shared by Donna DesRoches on 31 Jan 16 - No Cached
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      Donna DesRoches on 31 Jan 16
       
      I think that the use of the tools that technology now allows such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram enable us to be more empathetic - e.g. the outpouring of support for #laloche.  Facebook and Twitter helped create connections that allowed people to then get together face-to-face to grieve and provide support.
  • Turkle too often assumes screen-mediated communication comes in only one flavor, which cannot grasp the complexities of our always augmented sociality, to say nothing of how screens are differently used by those with different abilities.
  • We should not conceptually preclude or discount all the ways intimacy, passion, love, joy, pleasure, closeness, pain, suffering, evil and all the visceral actualities of existence pass through the screen. “Face to face” should mean more than breathing the same air.
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  • This screen-mediated communication is face-to-face, in person, physical, and close in so many important ways, and distant in only one
  • The camp study, relying on shoddy methods and inaccurate conclusions, exemplifies how cultural fears and emotional appeals can facilitate the spread of unsubstantiated claims, cloaked in science.”
  • Why this presumption of doom?
  • How do you look at everyday people using digital devices to communicate with one another and suppose that they may not even know what conversation and friendship are?
  • hat people who text more often also meet face to face more; that the contemporary technologies of social isolation were, and are, the television and the automobile, not smart phones; that there’s been a recent reversal of the long post–World War II trend toward social isolation.
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