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Donna DesRoches

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    An infographic which demonstrates the complexity of FAcebook's privacy settings. "To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet"
Donna DesRoches

Facebook Guide Book - How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable - 0 views

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    a complete collection of resources to help you master Facebook
Donna DesRoches

10 New Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know - 1 views

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    updated Facebook privacy guide
Donna DesRoches

5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Unbeknownst to most mainstream Facebook users, the social network actually offers a slew of privacy controls and security features which can help you batten down the hatches, so to speak. If used properly, you'll never have to worry about whether you should friend the boss and your mom. You can friend anyone you want while comfortable in the knowledge that not everyone gets to see everything you post.
Donna DesRoches

Are You Googling What You Think You're Googling? | Blog - 0 views

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    Google and Facebook 'personalize what you see' 
Donna DesRoches

Monitor Facebook use by teens - Technology & Science - CBC News - 0 views

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    The introduction of social media means parents need to supervise their kids' use of the technology though they may not know much about it themselves
Donna DesRoches

Fear of Screens - The New Inquiry - 0 views

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      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.
Donna DesRoches

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

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    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
Donna DesRoches

MyHope (original song) - 0 views

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    an original song about the permanence of one's online postings.
Patricia Cone

Free Technology for Teachers: Read Write Think - Profile Publisher - 0 views

  • Read Write Think offers a free program called the Profile Publisher. Profile Publisher allows students to create and print mock-ups of social network profiles. Students can create profiles for themselves of for fictional characters. Profile Publisher includes fields for "about me," "blog posts," "interests," and all of the other profile fields typically found on a social network. Completed profiles can be printed.
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    Read Write Think offers a free program called the Profile Publisher. Profile Publisher allows students to create and print mock-ups of social network profiles. Students can create profiles for themselves of for fictional characters. Profile Publisher includes fields for "about me," "blog posts," "interests," and all of the other profile fields typically found on a social network. Completed profiles can be printed.
Donna DesRoches

Heather Armstrong on Web Predators - Newsweek 2010 - 0 views

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    It is still more dangerous to take your kid to the grocery store than it is to write about them online, or let them surf the Web.
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