This article is super interesting. Its completely about how the Jihad are using the internet as well as other terrorist groups. It also gives info on Yahoo! and how its working with them that i was unable to find in the other articles I've looked at.
Young people are increasingly using social networking sites (SNSs) like MySpace and Facebook to engage with
others. The use of SNSs can have both positive and negative effects on the individual; however, few studies identify
the types of people who frequent these Internet sites. This study sought to predict young adults' use of SNSs and
addictive tendency toward the use of SNSs from their personality characteristics and levels of self-esteem.
"We are makers of our own world and how much technology is involved in our world." Others are more creative in our making, some artistically and some simplistically.
This article talks about on how people are social beings who seek to establish
identity and friendship with others. In organizational
settings, diverse groups of people use
these ties for social support and work accomplishment.
Authors:
AJAY MEHRA
University of Cincinnati
MARTIN KILDUFF
DANIEL J. BRASS
The Pennsylvania State University
In this talk, Tom shows 7 ways how games can help us when we use it in education. If only our mind can be addicting to education as in games, then that's a reward to our brain.
Orff, an architect talks about a new way to help us to have a better, cleaning environment. She explain about a hero that change make a differences to our water sources and the species around us. This new hero that she introduce are OYSTER!!!
In this video, Jane McGonigal talks about how individuals (online gamers) can make a better world. She mentioned that individuals play online games because it makes them happier and give them a feeling of working hard. Gamers do not give up when they fail and they tend to have a more strong social relationship than in real life. McGonigal said that gamers are human resource that we can use to do real world work. Instead of playing games and trying to save the virtual world, she had created online games intended to help gamers play and think critically about how to survive
"Facebook vs. Twitter: battle of the social network stars" is an article written by Curt Tagtmeier, a reference librarian, about libraries using Facebook and Twitter to reach out to people. He started a project in May 2010 creating a Facebook page and a Twitter profile to make use of the popularity of social networking. This article gives reasons about both the sites and to why a library should pick between Facebook or Twitter in the battle of the social network stars.
I found this article from the CSU Chico Library Database.
This video is a clip of a student documentary on religion, the clip have many good sources like interviews, sideshows, songs and self-narrative in the clip.