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This article discusses whether our constant use of the internet might actually be changing the way our brains do their work - physically and mentally. Why should the brain retain information if it knows that Google can supplement what it's lost? Studies have shown that our habitual practices can actually change our neuronal structures, and what is more habitual than our constant use of the internet? This article posits that we may be losing some of our capability for contemplative concentration due to technology and a culture that is no longer print-based.

This source shows both sides of the internet, examining how the benefits of the internet can change depending on what you use it for.

Who am I? How does our development of online identities affect our development of offline identities?

RELATED TO MY ENGLISH RESEARCH: It is not difficult to observe the ubiquity of "Internet Addiction" as a phenomenon and/or accepted part of every day life in the Digital Age. Much less mentioned is the even more pervasive "cell phone addiction", "Crackberry addiction", "gaming addiction", or "texting addiction".

It is not difficult to observe the ubiquity of "Internet Addiction" as a phenomenon and/or accepted part of every day life in the Digital Age. Much less mentioned is the even more pervasive "cell phone addiction", "Crackberry addiction", "gaming addiction", or "texting addiction". Are we now at risk of seeing a vast presentation - a cultural commonality - of "Facebook Addiction Disorder"? (Or is sometimes FAD just a fad?) :-)

This article talks about how most people are not protected on the internet and it tells how people with accounts on the internet can protect themselves.

List of things that became famous on the internet.

In this technology-centric classroom, students are bent over laptops, some blogging or building Facebook pages from the perspective of Shakespeare's characters. One student compiles a song list from the Internet, picking a tune by the rapper Kanye West to express the emotions of Shakespeare's lovelorn Silvius.

The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymity.

This essay writed by Danah Boyd at the University of California-Berkeley talks about the role of the internet and social sites in teens life, identity, friendships,etc.

Youtube video looking at identity on the internet

The recent case of a Columbia grad, Carla Franklin, seeking to have YouTube release the identity of an anonymous user who posted defamatory comments and videos about her has reignited the debate over internet users' right to privacy: