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This article focuses on the gender difference and age groups teens use social networks. It states many facts and has useful information for anyone who is in need of information regarding Facebook and MySpace.

This article presents an interview with Kurt Squire, assistant professor in educational communications and technology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The interview was built on Squire's presentations on the relationship between digital games and education. Squire discussed about the issues in the games research community and the benefits of gaming for learning

Clay Shirky NYU professor, expert on social media, discusses the benefits of social media engagement through: online communities, blogs, networks, and groups etc. He encourages people to participate in online interactions and communities in the sense that people who share common interests can interact online to form new ideas to better their specific interest and culture.

In this video, William Li talks about how we can lower our risk of cancer by eating local food. Food such as tomatoes, soy bean, cherry, etc. He also talks about the causes of cancer.

This article is about the rise of flash mobs and how this club used a flash mob in order to promote their club/ organization.

This article talks about the increase in usage of the internet, cell phone technology, game tech, wireless by age, internet usage by age, ethnicity, class, year, twitter, and other social networks. This article is very useful for anyone who needs information on how teens today have become the majority of tench users in todays's world. Very interesting

I found this article by Mary Chayko to be most interesting in which she discusses how people create social media communities and bonds based on commonly shared pleasures and interests. She focuses on the "sociomental connections" we form with others.

In this article, it talks about how the development of the internet create a popular place for discussion of political and social issues. In recent years, sites like Facebook are illustrations of the outstanding growth social network sites.

McKenna talks about how people are texting more than talking on the phone. She stated that texters are more lonely than talkers.

Flash mob at the beach.

Video games today isn't just for kids and teaches anymore. Gaming have been use in many new and different ways that have helped improved businesses, educations and also the medical fields.

Facebook can useful for college students and teachers.

In this video it tells facts about Google , face book and etc. How in a way is taking over the world. They ask in the beginning is social media a fad? Which is a good question will we in the future be over the internet technology?

Most people probably feel that Twitter is nothing but a waste of time, and does nothing positive for the individuals using it. After reading this article, I must say Twitter is darn good invention, that has a postive effect and outcome for the individuals who partake in the action.

This article talks about how "we" our generation has cause CD's to go out of business. Record companies are not selling much anymore because we now get our music freely as we like of the internet. Torrents, Limewire, Itunes all are site we can access music.

This is a scene from a episode of Glee. They combine two songs into one performance.

In this talk Chellman talks about why girls have a better chance at succeeding in school than boys; and how should we change our methods of teaching today to improve the boys chances of success. She states that some of the reasons why this is happening is because, there are more female teachers than male teachers so they enforce their ideas on the boys. She goes on to say that there should be more input into creating video games which is something that boys are interested in as a source of teaching.

I watch one of his videos in another class and thought he was really interesting. He talks about race and issue we have today that you don't always notice.

interesting...I like they way they express you can be anyone on face book and how it has taken away from being social. Friends don't need to make new friends in person they can just add them.

I liked this one because it was different than all the others flash mobs it was more of a statement, they make tons of indivduals one by one take there pants off. I think they do it for the reaction of others.