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Rebeka Aščerič

BBC News - Children 'must know web limits' says Wales commissioner - 0 views

  • Adults must impose the necessary checks and balances to keep children safe online, says the children's commissioner for Wales.
  • "All children and young people don't seem much of a distinction between their online and offline lives,"
  • Mr Towler told BBC Radio Wales. "It's all just one thing and they get really excited by the opportunities the internet affords and sometimes parents get a little scared about that and worried about what their children are accessing." 'Crossing the road' Continue reading the main story “Start Quote They're all running around with handheld computers these days, they're not just on phones ” End Quote Keith Towler Children's commissioner Mr Towler said he talks to children in lots of different settings and they "still enjoy playing outside as much as they ever did". He said we need to recognise that the internet provides fantastic opportunities for education and learning and its making sure that children access that safely. He said that was a real challenge for parents and carers. "It's a bit like crossing the road, you try to teach your children the best way of crossing the road well. We need to teach our children the best way of using this fantastic resource. "I think too many parents are very very scared of the internet and because they're so scared they will say 'Oh I don't understand it'". Handheld computers The commissioner also praised Hwb, the virtual learning environment, which he said provides protection for children using the web in schools. Mr Towler said: "We've got to get parents and carers to recognise that children do operate in the digital world. They're all running around with handheld computers these days, they're not just on phones. "They can access whatever they want whenever they want and parents need to engage on that. " "We need to remember that children and young people are much more savvy than sometimes we think they are, and they are much more responsible than sometimes adults think they are so its not all doom and gloom. "What we need to do is put the right checks and balances in place and what children always want from parents and carers is to understand what the boundaries are, and that's our job to do that." Sangeet Bhullar, executive director of Wise Kids, added that the digital landscape was "evolving rapidly" and up-to-date data was needed on how children and young people in Wales related to it. More on This Story .related-links-list li { position: relative; } .related-links-list .gvl3-icon { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } Related Stories Web safety lessons urged for infants 05 FEBRUARY 2013, EDUCATION &amp; FAMILY Online chat 'should be monitored' 22 JANUARY 2013, TECHNOLOGY Body to promote digital teaching 22 JUNE 2012, WALES $render("page-see-also","ID"); $render("page-newstracker","ID"); Related Internet links Children's Commissioner for Wales The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites $render("page-related-items","ID"); Share this pageShare this pageShareFacebookTwitter Email Print In association with $render("advert","advert-sponsor-module","page-bookmark-links"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); More Wales stories RSS Army base shuts in defence shake-up An Army base in Pembrokeshire is to close with 600 troops transferred to St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. Soldiers' conman jailed three years Wales recall Warburton and Jones <!--
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  • "I think too many parents are very very scared of the internet and because they're so scared they will say 'Oh I don't understand it'".
  • "What we need to do is put the right checks and balances in place and what children always want from parents and carers is to understand what the boundaries are, and that's our job to do that."
Gabrijela Vrbnjak

BBC News - Web code weakness allows data dump on PCs - 0 views

  • The loophole exploits a feature of HTML 5 which defines how websites are made and what they can do.
  • Developer Feross Aboukhadijeh found the bug and set up a demo page that fills visitors' hard drives with pictures of cartoon cats. In one demo, Mr Aboukhadijeh managed to dump one gigabyte of data every 16 seconds onto a vulnerable Macbook. Clever code Most major browsers, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, were found to be vulnerable to the bug, said Mr Aboukhadijeh. While most websites are currently built using version 4 of the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), that code is gradually being superseded by the newer version 5. One big change brought in with HTML 5 lets websites store more data locally on visitors' PCs. Safeguards built into the "local storage" specification should limit how much data can be stored. Different browsers allow different limits but all allow at least 2.5 megabytes to be stored. However, Mr Aboukhadijeh found a way round this cap by creating lots of temporary websites linked to the one a person actually visited. He found that each one of these associated sites was allowed to store up to the limit of data because browser makers had not written code to stop this happening. By endlessly creating new, linked websites the bug can be used to siphon huge amounts of data onto target PCs. Only Mozilla's Firefox capped storage at 5MB and was not vulnerable, he found. "Cleverly coded websites have effectively unlimited storage space on visitor's computers," wrote Mr Aboukhadijeh in a blogpost about the bug. Code to exploit the bug has been released by Mr Aboukhadijeh and he set up a website, called Filldisk that, on vulnerable PCs, dumps lots of images of cats on to the hard drive. So far, no malicious use of the exploits has been observed. In a bid to solve the problem, bug reports about the exploit have been filed with major browser makers. More on This Story .related-links-list li { position: relative; } .related-links-list .gvl3-icon { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; } Related Stories Firefox smartphone partners revealed 24 FEBRUARY 2013, TECHNOLOGY Flash Player exits Android store 15 AUGUST 2012, TECHNOLOGY HTML 5 target for cybercriminals 02 DECEMBER 2011, TECHNOLOGY $render("page-see-also","ID"); $render("page-newstracker","ID"); Related Internet links Feross Aboukhadijeh The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites $render("page-related-items","ID"); Share this pageShare this page1.4KShareFacebookTwitter Email Print In association with $render("advert","advert-sponsor-module","page-bookmark-links"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); More Technology stories RSS Computer glitch hits Mars rover Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover is put into "safe mode" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files. US plans small-ship drone launches Hackers breach Evernote security $render("advert","advert-mpu-high"); $render("advert-post-script-load"); Top Stories http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/6618
  • found the bug and set up a demo page that fills visitors' hard drives with pictures of cartoon cats.
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  • because browser makers had not written code to stop this happening. By endlessly creating new, linked websites the bug can be used to siphon huge amounts of data onto target PCs.
  • found a way round this cap by creating lots of temporary websites linked to the one a person actually visited
  • Most major browsers, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari, were found to be vulnerable to the bug
  • was not vulnerable
  • Mozilla's Firefox
  • bug reports about the exploit have been filed with major browser makers.
Patricija Čelik

Next generation of social media 'exposing girls to sexual abuse' - Online - Media - The... - 0 views

  • A new breed of social media websites is leaving young people open to cyber bullying, with anonymous users able to bombard others with sexually explicit messages and demands.
  • The anonymity provided by the sites has made them a hotbed for sexual pressure, bullying and abuse.
  • Despite little mainstream media coverage, “question and answer” websites such as ask.fm, qooh.me and formspring.me have exploded in popularity
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  • Browsing some of the sites for just a few minutes reveals a torrent of sexual demands, explicit questions and abusive threats to users whose photos suggest they are young teenage girls.
donnamariee

Who is Social Media Really Working For? | Jason Benlevi | Cato Unbound - 0 views

  • “digital activism” had tremendous impact and leverage for change
  • It’s my opinion that social networking, as an activist tool, is being vastly oversold.
  • Technology always cuts two ways. Although the personal computer provided empowerment and creative liberation for individuals, and the Internet gave us access to information, they came at a cost.
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  • Since centralized power is inherently non-democratic, these monolithic network entities are not inclined to liberate humanity. Therefore utopians better think twice if they are depending on the Net to promulgate democracy and freedom
  • Does social media make any kind of impact in molding opinion? Yes. As with all media types it serves both for good and evil, truth and lies
  • in the belief that cultural and physical realities are the determining factors far more than “friending” a cause. Whether we like it or not, bullets and batons are more potent than bytes. Reality generally trumps virtuality.
  • The efficacy of the network as a tool of activism is best examined in three different contexts: 1. Democratic states 2. Authoritarian states 3. Commercial “states”
  • the social network as it is presently constituted is not a serious tool for substantive social change. It is concentrated, centralized and controlled
  • n the democratic context, it is similarly a way to vent, and perhaps organize, but as of yet not much more. However, if you are selling widgets, the social network looks more promising.
  • Who is Social Media Really Working For?
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ninicka17

Quitters Never Win: The Costs of Leaving Social Media - Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Seling... - 0 views

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Neža Zidanič

Why doesn't everyone 'social media stalk' a potential date? - Telegraph - 0 views

  • A new study has found that two thirds of single people ‘social media stalk’ before agreeing to go a date.
  • There have also been countless accounts in recent years of people not being able to even get a job because of a negative online identity prejudicing the interviewer.
  • as digital communication can be easily misconstrued
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  • Brilliantly the study also broke down what specific things during a good old social media stalk could break a date: an ugly mug shot, lack of humour, aggressive online behaviour, excessive flirting with others online and, my favourite one, oversharing
  • However, this light-hearted poll provides further proof of how we are increasingly judged every single day by our online personas.
  • Of those honest souls, 77 per cent claimed they had turned down a date as a result of something they found out about the said babe or hunk through social media.
  • However, while it’s important for both professional and increasingly personal reasons to be conscientious about what you post online, we do also need to remember that societal attitudes are still playing catch-up with the web.
  • All it takes is for one negative comment, or silly photo to be shared by someone else, and then a digital identity can be marred – giving a falsely negative impression of somebody.
  • The web can be unforgiving and is often out of our control.
  • he internet can do many things – but it simply cannot tell you whether you will get those unexplainable stomach butterflies when you meet your date in person.
Rebeka Aščerič

Social media followers: Beware the tweeting crowds | The Economist - 0 views

  • IF YOU think money can't buy you friends, think again. In the online world, it’s possible to purchase a crowd of fans.
  • To decide whether a follower is human, Mr Camisani Calzolari used various criteria, including the number of posts from a fan’s Twitter account and the use of correct punctuation in tweets. According to this research, by June 2011 nearly half of Twitter followers of computer maker Dell—about 700,000—were bots.
  • On close inspection, a significant proportion of Mr Romney’s followers appeared to be fake profiles.
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  • There is no indication that any of the companies mentioned in Mr Camisani Calzolari’s paper have bought followers—rogue bots often attach themselves to people and brands without payment. But some firms do buy a social media following.
  • For now, the trick works. “Normal people don't know yet that there is this black market. Most have total trust that a brand's followers are real,” says Mr Camisani Calzolari.
Neža Zidanič

Social networking: teachers blame Facebook and Twitter for pupils' poor grades - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Teachers believe social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are to blame for pupils' poor grades, a study has concluded.
  • Seven in 10 British teachers believe children are becoming more and more obsessed with websites such as Facebook&nbsp; By Andy Bloxham 10:38AM GMT 18 Nov 2010
  • This research clearly demonstrates that students up and down the country are spending more and more time using social media.
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  • "Rather than relying on life experiences, educational travel and face to face interaction with others, children are becoming obsessed with social networking and this is shaping their attitudes instead.
  • The report concludes that the children with the poorest grades at school are the ones who spent most time on social networking.
  • Seven in 10 British teachers believe children are becoming more and more obsessed with websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
  • Half of the 500 teachers polled believe this fixation is affecting the children's ability to concentrate in class.
  • 'They enjoy using this tool but there is a danger that these virtual interactions filter out problematic or emotional issues, which in real life, support social and emotional development. ''Social networking has become so much the norm, for adults and children alike, that non-participation can result in feeling excluded or even socially ostracised. ''The time invested in social media versus real life interpersonal interaction can detract from that available for real human contact and contribute to delayed and/or distorted social and emotional development.''
  • It is also claimed that children who are online at every available opportunity are less willing to communicate with adults.
  • ''Currently there is little empirical research and related guidance on how to integrate social media into school-based learning, although I am aware that many teachers are grappling with this challenge in their day to day practice and some are managing to use this new media very constructively.
Meta Arcon

Google Glass: what it means for business | Media Network | Guardian Professional - 0 views

  • Google Glass could herald the next phase of mobile computing.
  • One of the most exciting announcements and demos from Google IO 2012 was Project Glass – Google's computerised glasses designed to let wearers use apps, capture images and video, use the internet and social networks on the move
  • Glass has a processor, memory, and a visual display that is positioned above the eye so that one is able to interact with the virtual world without inhibiting the real one. It has a camera, microphone, and speaker to capture and receive information. It has multiple radios for data communication. Glass also has gyroscopes, an accelerometer, and a compass so the device is aware of its context not only to you, but to your location in the physical world as well.
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  • But how does knowing a fact faster help us? How can near-instantaneous access to information make a difference?
  • How does a wearable mobile device such as Glass represent a step forward for business? It does so because it provides the ability to interact with relevant data, in real-time and in a collaborative fashion that has never before been possible.
donnamariee

Does social media cause a more isolated society? - 0 views

  • Does social media cause a more isolated society?
  • ocial networks “don't only change what we do, they change who we are.”
  • As MIT professor and clinical psychologist Sherry Turkle sees it, our s
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  • our preoccupation all things virtual, over face to face communication
  • “Connected, but alone?
  • expect more from technology and less from each othe
  • offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship." In other words, she says, "We're getting used to a new way of being alone together
  • ext and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings
  • in 1985, long before tweets and adding friends and social media dialect
  • relationship with television was similar to how many relate to their Blackberry
  • Just like the television was an expression of Eric's isolation and inability to relate emotionally, so too is the overuse or over reliance on social media in 21st century. The concept [Connected, but alone] isn't new, just the technology.
  • With a society seeking and yearning for connection, we have an opportunity to take a risk emotionally and share ourselves with another soul willing to do the same, healing one another.
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donnamariee

Technology and productivity: The hollow promise of the iEconomy | The Economist - 0 views

  • Apple is the most creative, innovative and envied technology company of our time,
  • spring of 2000,
  • Cisco and its ilk as the internet transformed the economy.
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  • If fact there is little sign in the data that machines are displacing humans any faster than usual
  • Perhaps because of uncertainty, though that’s a poor explanation for a phenomenon occurring globally.
  • How to put a price on the contribution of Facebook or Twitter to the Arab spring?
  • IN THE battle between David Einhorn and Apple over the latter's $137 billion cash hoard lies a deeper lesson about the outlook for the economy. Mr Einhorn, an activist investor,&nbsp;says Apple clings to its money out of a “Depression mentality”. Perhaps. But the more mundane explanation is that Apple, like many of the world's big companies today, is generating more cash from its existing product line than it can usefully plough back into new projects.
  • Today, we all know Apple’s products, and a lot of us own one. Yet it is hard to identify the impact they or any of today's social-media giants have had on productivity. I was at first delighted with the convenience and freedom to read documents, check Twitter and search the web on the iPad mini I got in December, but it occurred to me recently that this was at best an incremental improvement over doing it on my BlackBerry or laptop. It also provides me with many more ways to waste time. As Tom Toles, the Washington Post’s cartoonist, puts it:
  • No doubt some of those YouTube videos were being watched over Apple products. Not that I blame Apple for Penney’s culture (after all, Google owns YouTube), but it is a reminder that the social-media revolution has been a mixed blessing. Yahoo at one time stood atop the Internet but the ability of its workers to do their job from anywhere may be backfiring on productivity
  • are genuine benefits of social media and the related hardware. In its first few decades the computer/internet revolution re-engineered business processes, enabling companies to interact with each other and customers in more ways at lower cost than ever, producing measurable, bankable results. Now, it’s leading to brand-new consumer products, many of whose &nbsp;benefits are unmeasured or unmeasurable.
Anja Vasle

Progressive Internet Entrepreneurs | The Nation - 0 views

  • Since there's no evidence these investors are interested in anything but profit, it's up to progressive organizations to become players in the global m
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  • generate huge revenues
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  • they are doing what they can to make sure young people are immersed in brand messages
  • Last year, more than $21 billion was spent in the United States on Internet-related ads. By 2011, online advertising will overtake newspapers as the leading recipient of US marketing dollars.
  • US media history in the twentieth century illustrated how radio, broadcast television and cable were media with great promise, but once advertising took hold their public interest potential was soon scuttled.
  • how corporate investments affect the diversity of digital ownership.
  • Google, Microsoft, and Time Warner are gobbling up leading digital media companies
Gabrijela Vrbnjak

City must wake up to digital growth, says tech investor | Business | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • digital business was now the third biggest contributor to the economy, responsible for 8% of GDP
  • American internet companies like Google and Amazon have walked in and eaten the lunch of the UK in media, in retail, in travel – and they are not going to stop here
  • digital business will grow to 12.4% of the economy in 2016
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  • every business and public-sector organisation should be forced to measure its digital operations
  • structural change was necessary if the media were going to survive.
  • Retail isn't dead, it's just changing – the same with media
Jan Majdič

China to Web Users: Great Firewall? Just Be Glad We're Not North Korea - David Caraglia... - 1 views

  • Last week, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt urged North Korean leaders to embrace the Internet. Only a small proportion of that country's 24 million people can access the World Wide Web, and the majority of the 1.5 million mobile phones there belong to political and military elites.
  • Meanwhile, in China, a country that has embraced the Internet to a much greater extent, the big story was about censorship, both online and off.
  • For Chinese social media users, the irony here was too perfect to go unnoticed
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  • A number of social networking and sharing websites are blocked in China, including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, and certain Google applications
  • "China's progress must be viewed in the context of its unique historical and cultural circumstances.
  • Web users engage with and identify as part of a broader, sometimes international, online community
  • Chinese public preferences are shifting from broadcast media to networked media; with that shift, the expectation for public participation is growing.
  • Knowing well the impact and viral nature of social networking, editors loyal to propaganda authorities took control of the newspaper's microblogging account not long after the scandal broke.
Mateja Žnidaršič

A truly world wide web? | Media | MediaGuardian - 0 views

  • In its early, idealistic days the web was heralded as a force for democratic change. According to the early web revolutionaries, the medium opened up the world of publishing to everyone, regardless of nationality, race or location.
  • the network continued to grow organically, expanding to take in an ISP, a shopping site and a small businesses portal.
  • The BBC also plays an important role. As with its wider new media activities, the corporation's public service role has increased in importance as commercial competitors have fallen by the wayside.
donnamariee

A 'more revolutionary' Web - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Just when the ideas behind "Web 2.0" are starting to enter into the mainstream, the mass of brains behind the World Wide Web is introducing pieces of what may end up being called Web 3.0. "Twenty years from now, we'll look back and say this was the embryonic period," said Tim Berners-Lee, 50, who established the programming language of the Web in 1989 with colleagues at CERN, the European science institute.
  • To many in technology, Web 2.0 means an Internet that is even more interactive, customized, social and media-intensive - not to mention profitable - than the one of a decade ago.It is a change apparent with multilayered media databases like Google Maps, software programs that run inside Web browsers like the collaboration-friendly word processor Writely, high-volume community forums like MySpace, and so-called social search tools like Yahoo Answers.
  • In this version of the Web, sites, links, media and databases are "smarter" and able to automatically convey more meaning than those of today.For example, Berners-Lee said, a Web site that announces a conference would also contain programming with a lot of related information embedded within it.A user could click on a link and immediately transfer the time and date of the conference to his or her electronic calendar. The location - address, latitude, longitude, perhaps even altitude - could be sent to his or her GPS device, and the names and biographies of others invited could be sent to an instant messenger list.
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  • "There is an obvious place for the semantic Web in life sciences, in medicine, in industrial research," Shadbolt said, and that is where most of the focus is today."We're looking for communities of information users to show them the benefits," he said. "It's an evolutionary process."The big question is whether it will move on next to businesses or consumers, he said. A consequence of an open and diffuse Internet, he noted, is that unexpected outcomes can emerge from unanticipated places.
  • "People keep asking what Web 3.0 is," Berners-Lee said. "I think maybe when you've got an overlay of scalable vector graphics - everything rippling and folding and looking misty - on Web 2.0 and access to a semantic Web integrated across a huge space of data, you'll have access to an unbelievable data resource."Said Sheehan: "I believe the semantic Web will be profound. In time, it will be as obvious as the Web seems obvious to us today."
donnamariee

Better Policy Through Better Information | John O. McGinnis | Cato Unbound - 0 views

  • Can Internet activism work?
  • is importantly correct that the Internet can help redress the balance between special and more encompassing interests by reducing the cost of accessing information. Such reduction redounds to the advantage of diffuse groups more than concentrated groups because reduced costs can temper the former groups’ larger problems of coordination.
  • earing that more information may enable citizens to better organize to attack their privileges, they have tried to restrict emerging technologies of free communication as long as these technologies have been around.
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  • In a democratic state like ours, the primary interest groups are not authoritarian cliques, but private actors, like public sector unions and trade associations, which have the leverage to pressure politicians to use public power on their behalf. And, like authoritarian leaders, such groups are desperate to avoid transparency to retain their benefits. A case in point is the opposition of teachers' unions to publishing evaluations of schools and teachers on the Internet. And many interest groups have tried to prevent laws requiring Internet disclosure of campaign contributions.
  • Yet the results of policies are contestable. And it is often hard for citizens who are distracted by many enterprises more interesting than politics to find good information about policies' likely outcomes. Most people also have a better intuitive sense of how policies will affect their short-term interests than the long-term interests of society, even if the long-term effects may be of great personal as well as social benefit.
  • The Internet provides an important mechanism of such social discovery. Because of the greater space and interconnections that the Internet makes available, web-based media, like blogs, can be dispersed and specialized and yet connected with the wider world. As a result of this more decentralized and competitive media, the web generates both more innovative policy ideas and better explanations of policy than were available when mainstream media dominated the flow of political discussion.
  • In short, over time the Internet and allied aspects of the computational revolution can create more focused and more accurate knowledge about the consequences of social policies. This knowledge in turn can help more citizens focus more on what they have in common—their shared goals and policies that may achieve them—rather than on the unsupported intuitions or personal circumstances that may divide them. Of course, some citizens will remain ideologues, impervious to updating on the facts. But democracy moves by changing the middle, not the extremes. Like other mechanisms that increase common knowledge, the Internet can give wing to the better angels of our nature.
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