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TOPIC: Net Neutrality-Issues of censorship or equality of access and the digital divide - 20 views

On Mohammad post I learned how the people in Iran used Twitter in the Election of the President to bring information out to the rest of the world and organize rallies within the country. This is an...

Madeline Brownstone

Schools creating new rules for social networking policies - USATODAY.com - 2 views

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    "beginning of the academic year warning them of social networking issues. Source: Individual schools * Share * Yahoo! Buzz * Add to Mixx * Facebook * Twitter * More o Fark o Digg o Reddit o MySpace o StumbleUpon o Propeller o LinkedIn * Subscribe * myYahoo * iGoogle * More o Netvibes o myAOL * By Kyle Oppenhuizen, USA TODAY More college athletic departments are developing or publicizing online social networking policies for student athletes, experts say. USA TODAY researched social networking policies for 27 schools in six major conferences, including the University of Iowa, which will implement a new monitoring policy Friday. Last fall, pictures emerged on Facebook of two 19-year old Hawkeye football players holding cash and liquor bottles. Five of these schools already have specific monitoring policies in effect - Auburn, Iowa State, Ohio State, Miami and North Carolina. Others warn athletes of the potential dangers of sites such as Facebook and MySpace through student-athlete handbook policies, meetings, coach's discussions and even letters. Some schools don't have a specific policy but allow coaches to monitor at their discretion, or take action if inappropriate material online is reported. Iowa's policy puts senior leaders in charge of monitoring profiles of athletes' on their team and bring problems to administrators, who then work with the athlete, associate athletic director Fred Mims said. Administrators will not get involved, Mims said, unless issues are brought to their attention, in which case they will talk to the athlete about addressing the issue and check out the profile, public or private. Ohio State, on the other hand, requires athletes to have a public profile or add coaches and administrators as friends (which gives access to the private profile). Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. cand
Jaymee C

TOPIC: In what ways is social networking used for serious business? - 35 views

The article I read was about the United States government using social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace to do investigation on people and catch criminals. Though it may be helpful for the...

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Jaymee C

Facebook, Inc. News - The New York Times - 1 views

  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
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  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
  • Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances.
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Noreen C

Facebook, Twitter Turn Social Powers to Disaster Relief | Fast Company - 1 views

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    The article is primarily about the increased usage of social networking sites for altruistic advances. Sites like Twitter and Facebook have become sources of information for people to discuss and come up with relief for the disasters occurring all over the world. Due to the increased usage of these networks, the perfect "central" location to reach out to many groups of people seems like the best option. According to the article, this is a great advancement and benefit for situations such as the disaster in Haiti. Facebook has reported that they have raised "hundreds of thousands" of dollars for the cause through "status updates, chat and micropayment systems." Twitter, specifically, is a method for people to share their motivational bits in their short Tweet updates. The article also brings about current effort of raising awareness and gaining a greater volunteer network for the upcoming Martin Luther Day holiday, for the Corporation for National Community Service. Most importantly, the end of the article brings about a great benefit of using the social networks to connect anyone in the world who wants to help, even if they are thousands of miles away. As seen, the hours spent online every week can be finally put to use for the greater good.
Lenny H

Barack Obama and the Facebook Election - 0 views

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    This article describes the election of the 2008 election for President. Obama's election will go down as symbolic and inspiring victory for coming generations. A large amount of Obama's victory was due to the youth vote. With the rising of facebook and social networking Obama's ground swell support came from this generation of people on facebook and using social networks. He attempted to interact with American voters via online social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Obama teamed up with Chris Hughes, a facebook co-founder in order to podcast and mobile messaging. Obama is a natural Facebook politician. On his personal Facebook profile-which featured his "Our Moment Is Now" motto-Obama named his favorite musicians as Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Dylan and listed his pastimes as basketball, writing, and "loafing w/kids" (note the hip shorthand aimed at appealing to young voters). The 72-year-old John McCain, by contrast, never managed to connect on Facebook. He gave one of his pastimes as "fishing" and listed Letters From Iwo Jima among his favorite movies. McCain even got "punked" by a Facebook prankster who posted a phony policy announcement right on McCain's online profile: "Dear supporters, today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage ... particularly marriage between two passionate females."
Mariam B

How Obama tapped into Social Networks' Power - 0 views

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    The benefit of social networking allowed a medium of communication, in order to spread and advertise the campaign of Obama. The widespread usage of facebook, myspace, and other popular social networking websites by users was used to promote Obama during the election. He was able to gain many supporters through advertising on these social networks. Rather then excessively spending money on campaigning, it allowed a easy medium of spreading knowledge. Often times a lot of money is spent on president campaigns, and the emergence of social networks as a tool in the campaign helped increase Obama's supporters-significantly increasing his votes.
Saida K

Advantages Of Social Networking - Benefits Of Social Networking - 1 views

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    There are many benefits to the usage of social networks towards a society, but more specifically to an individual itself. Becoming a member allows users to interact with others they do not yet know personally, but allows them to "keep track" of what others are doing. One gets to interact with businesses, giving themselves more business opportunities. It also allows people to develop skills where they give feedback to others and vise versa, creating trust over the internet.
Jackie C

Social networks, texts boost fundraising - CNN - 0 views

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    Social networks help boost fundraising and donation efforts in Haiti by 5 million in only a day.
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    Social Networking helps raise money for Haiti donations and relief efforts
Madeline Brownstone

ISIS: Protecting children in online social networks - 0 views

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    "The aim of the Isis project is to develop an ethics-centred monitoring framework and tools for supporting law enforcement agencies in policing online social networks for the purpose of protecting children. The project will develop natural language analysis techniques to help identify paedophiles from chat logs and monitoring mechanisms that can be non-invasively attached to file sharing systems for identifying the distributors of child abuse media. "
Yuval S

Facebook Murderer Gets Life - 3 views

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    This article is about a rapist on facebook that makes fake facebook profiles to speak to teens. He got one young teen girl to meet him and he raped and murdered her. This is a big problem in social networking that it is so easy to find another person.
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    Yuval, there have been different cases of rape and murder through the use of social networking. Was the person who used facebook this way ever caught? Now, Facebook is one of the most secure social networks, with so many users online that its privacy settings are very well established; users are able to prevent others from viewing their profile. Its something old social networks have used as well, yet not to the extent that facebook is ensuring its users.
Madeline Brownstone

Twitter is Everything but a Social Network - 3 views

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    this article talks about twitter being more then just a social network, it is turning into a hub for people to share more important information such as spread of a news event, new discovery and gathering people's opinions on a large scale.
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    Ram originally posted this article but did not cache it.
Jaymee C

Government Surveillance Of Social Networks Challenged -- InformationWeek - 0 views

  • Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law filed a lawsuit against six government agencies seeking to force the disclosure of policies governing the use of social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
  • The complaint cites various media reports about how government agencies have used social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, along with social video sites like YouTube, to investigate people and catch criminals.
Madeline Brownstone

Digital Domain - Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe With Your Allowance) - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    "Systems like these - known in the industry as nurturing games - are built to require regular investments of time and, for fullest enjoyment, money. The games are usually hosted by social networks like Facebook, or can connect to such networks so friends can follow one another's progress. They feature living digital property - the crops in FarmVille or the fish in Happy Aquarium - that can die without care and feeding. At FooPets, death is averted because, after a short period of neglect, the pet goes to a FooShelter. (And reclaiming it becomes an expensive proposition.)"
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    Check out the insidious way such game producers get youngsters to pay actual money.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC News - Children social network in secret says Prof Byron - 2 views

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    ""Parents are often in the dark, so who is talking to kids about what they do?" she told the BBC News website. "
Ariel A

Social networks could help community college students - 3 views

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    Facebook and Twitter helps college students in their learning experience. There are alot of facts on the use of technology and how some colleges take advantage on social networking to learn more in there educated purposes.
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    hey ariel, i have read your post and you said that with the internet access other people are able to communicate about the collage that they are in. But what experience would a collage student need if they are already inside the collage? also i would agree with you about how it can help other people outside of the collage and wondering what they want to know. Also what advantages would someone in collage get? what kind of educational purposes?
Madeline Brownstone

Flash Mobs Take Violent Turn in Philadelphia - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "It started innocently enough seven years ago as an act of performance art where people linked through social-networking Web sites and text messaging suddenly gathered on the streets for impromptu pillow fights in New York, group disco routines in London, and even a huge snowball fight in Washington. Enlarge This Image Laurence Kesterson/The Philadephia Inquirer Young people filled South Street in Philadelphia on Saturday in what officials said was the latest flash mob to turn dangerous. Enlarge This Image Mustafah Abdulaziz for The New York Times Seth Kaufman was injured in the flash mob Saturday, which he called "a tsunami of kids." But these so-called flash mobs have taken a more aggressive and raucous turn here as hundreds of teenagers have been converging downtown for a ritual that is part bullying, part running of the bulls: sprinting down the block, the teenagers sometimes pause to brawl with one another, assault pedestrians or vandalize property. "
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | Business | Twitter 'costs businesses £1.4bn' - 1 views

  • Staff who use Twitter and other social networking sites while at work are costing UK businesses £1.38bn every year, a report has said.
  • Although many businesses have banned the use of Facebook in the workplace
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      I infer that Facebook bans can be enforced through proxy server settings.
  • Over three-quarters of respondents said that their employer had not issued them with specific guidelines with regards to using Twitter. "Without guidelines and usage polices businesses are leaving themselves wide open to a reduction in productivity, brand damage and security risks," Morse said.
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      If company policies need to specify this site or that site, they will drive themselves crazy with writing and rewriting regulations. It is just not a practical solution.
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  • It added that companies should think about protecting the reputation of their brand. A third of workers admitted they had seen sensitive information posted on social networks. However, 84% said they felt it should be up to them what they posted online
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      a secondary issue is inferred here. The author implies that there are some workers who revealy company business through social networking sites and that is potentially harmful for the company's reputation. A twist here: the company wants privacy!
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    Seem like this has potential as a lead article.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC News - Social networks and the web offer a lifeline in Haiti - 1 views

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    "The collapse of traditional channels of communication in Haiti has again highlighted the role of social media and the internet in disasters. Twitter is being used as a prime channel for communications, while sites such as Ushahidi are providing maps detailing aid and damage. "
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