Sarah K. Noonan: Fake Facebook Account - 0 views
Immersed In Too Much Information, We Can Sometimes Miss The Big Picture : All Tech Cons... - 1 views
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Perhaps the sheer bulk of data makes it easier to suppress that information which we find overly unpleasant.
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I can bury myself in a mountain of incoming information.
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we’re a lot more ready for the technology revolution than we are for Aisha
Views: Over It Yet? Privacy, That Is - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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social media were invented not to promote your own reality show or to engage student learners in the digital age but to make money via programming and targeted advertising at your and your institution’s personal expense
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give marketers and advertisers the most direct window into our psyche and buying habits they've ever had
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imagine the level of awareness by other majors not required to understand privacy invasion, liability and social responsibility
Teens' Self-Image Shaped by Friends, Family, TV - MarketingVOX (Teens tend to be happie... - 0 views
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Eight in 10 teenagers (81 percent) are at least somewhat happy - 36 percent say very happy - and they list girlfriends/boyfriends, religion, friends and parents as positive influences, according to a recent OTX Research and Intelligence Group study, writes MarketingCharts. Relationships with friends ranked highest in the areas where teens feel happy (85 percent put this category in the top two positions), followed by personal talents or abilities (80 percent) Moreover, teens tend to be happier with how they look online (e.g., their MySpace profile) than with their actual looks - 78 percent vs. 68 percent.
"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" danah boyd - 0 views
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Structurally, social networks are driven by homophily even when there are individual exceptions. And sure enough, in the digital world, we see this manifested right before our eyes.
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One thing to keep in mind about social media: the internet mirrors and magnifies pre-existing dynamics.
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In many ways, the Internet is providing a next generation public sphere. Unfortunately, it's also bringing with it next generation divides. The public sphere was never accessible to everyone. There's a reason than the scholar Habermas talked about it as the bourgeois public sphere. The public sphere was historically the domain of educated, wealthy, white, straight men. The digital public sphere may make certain aspects of public life more accessible to some, but this is not a given. And if the ways in which we construct the digital public sphere reinforce the divisions that we've been trying to break down, we've got a problem.
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Second International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09) CALL FOR PAPERSSecond International Workshopon Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09)in conjunction with the8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009),Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009.
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Social Network Analysis Conferences in 2009 2009 seems to be a great year for social network analysis and computer science. Here is a list of conferences I am aware of.