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Kevin Champion

Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated - 0 views

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shared by Kevin Champion on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • What it shows is that, as a function of the people a Facebook user actively communicate with, you are passively engaging with between 2 and 2.5 times more people in their network. I’m sure many people have had this feeling, but these data make this effect more transparent.
  • The stark contrast between reciprocal and passive networks shows the effect of technologies such as News Feed. If these people were required to talk on the phone to each other, we might see something like the reciprocal network, where everyone is connected to a small number of individuals. Moving to an environment where everyone is passively engaged with each other, some event, such as a new baby or engagement can propagate very quickly through this highly connected network.
  • All Friends: the largest representation of a person’s network is the set of all people they have verified as friends. Reciprocal Communication: as a measure of a sort of core network, we counted the number of people with whom a person had had reciprocal communications, or an active exchange of information between two parties. One-way Communication: the total set of people with whom a person has communicated. Maintained Relationships: to measure engagement, we took the set of people for whom a user had clicked on a News Feed story or visited their profile more than twice.
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  • Peter Marsden found the number of people with whom individuals “can discuss important matters” numbers only 3 for Americans[3]. In a subsequent survey, researchers found that this number has dropped slightly over the past 10 years[4], causing some alarm in the press, but without sufficient explanation[5].
  • Killworth, et al. found using this technique and others that the number of people a person will know in their lifetime ranges somewhere between 300 and 3000[1]. On Facebook, the average number of friends that a person has is currently 120[2]. Given that Facebook has only been around for 5 years, that not everyone uses it, and that the not every acquaintance has found each other, this number seems reasonable for an average user.
  • We were asked a simple question: is Facebook increasing the size of people’s personal networks?
Mike Wesch

YouTube Stars!: Vloggers discuss vlogging - 0 views

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authenticity vlogging youtube

shared by Mike Wesch on 29 May 08 - Cached
  • Paperlilies remembers the earlier days of YouTube when it was interesting to watch people talk honestly about their real lives.
  • But the mundane was once interesting on YouTube as people were newly able to peek into lives of ordinary people. He finishes by observing that poets have always been able to make something special of the mundane - and reads a poem to illustrate his point.
  • Stevie Ryan (LittleLoca) hosted a TV show, HotForWords has been on Bill O'Reilly's show (and will be on it again soon!), Esmee Denters was signed by Justin Timberlake's company, Paperlilies has sold paintings on eBay.
Mike Wesch

Being Real - by Judith Donath - 0 views

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authenticity donath identity reality research youtube

shared by Mike Wesch on 29 May 08 - Cached
  • This chapter will address the problem of teleidentity: how do we - or do we - "know" another person whom we have encountered in a mediated environment?
  • Knowing something about a person's social identity is fundamental for knowing how to act toward them, for the complex rules of social conduct that govern our behavior toward each other cannot function in the absence of information about the other
  • When we first meet someone, we perceive only a few details about them: perhaps their appearance, a few words they utter, the context in which we meet them. Yet our impression of them is much deeper. As George Simmel wrote in his influential 1908 article How is Society Possible? we do not see merely the few details we have actually observed, but "just as we compensate for a blind spot in our field of vision so that we are no longer aware of it, so a fragmentary structure is transformed... into the completeness of an individuality."
Adam Bohannon

Facebook photo makes him a jailbird - social networking sites being used in the court room - 0 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 23 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Adam Bohannon on 23 Jul 08
     
    I don't agree that social networking sites are "just" another way that people say things or do things that come back and haunt them, but the article says something about the state of privacy and identity.
Jessica Rittenhouse

The Real News Network - Home - 0 views

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  • Jessica Rittenhouse on 17 Jan 09
     
    Now, I'm not 100% certain of the accuracy of this site, but with all the controversy that surrounds the media, it doesn't hurt to expand our sources a little, if for no other reason than to have something to compare.
Mike Wesch

Media Revolution: Podcasting (Part 2); 2/06 - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 31 May 08 - Cached
  • By the end of 2004, bloggers were using the ability to add video as an enclosure to an RSS feed, allowing viewers to subscribe to videos and have them delivered automatically to their computers. This solved the problem of click and wait, where you had to wait for a video to start playing when you clicked on it from a web page.
  • podcasting (both video and audio) is a bottom-up movement and squarely the domain of individuals who are being guided by human creativity and expression, rather than corporate agendas and economic exigencies.
  • With the cost of video cameras in the hundreds, sophisticated computers with video editing software available for just over a grand, and high speed always-on internet connections costing less than the average cable television subscription, the means of both production and distribution are now in the hands of practically anyone with something to say
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  • genuine conversation with their audience,
  • Marhshall McLuhan argued that in each socio-cultural era the medium in which information is created and transmitted determines the essential characteristics of that culture. He also predicted the evolution of an interconnected "global village".  The shift from a centralized media industry modeled on industrial revolution structures to a decentralized chaotic information-age soup is having a profound effect on the messages we exchange and shaping the characteristics of our culture. The global village comes to a crescendo with podcasting, and you can participate in the revolution with tools that are easily within reach: your imagination, the computer you're using to read this web page, and a video camera. We're not going to predicting what's next, as that's going to depend on what you, yes you, plan to do with new media. If the flutter of one butterfly wing, can trigger a chain reaction of events resulting in a storm half-way across the planet, imagine the effect millions, or billions, of individually produced videos will have on the characteristic of the global village and the media landscape.
  • You don't even need a video camera to start videoblogging, the mashup culture is in full force
  • most new computers come with free video editing software
  • A large group of vloggers, over 2,000 at last count, actively participate in the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group from all over the world.
Mike Wesch

Fluid Learning | the human network - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 31 Dec 08 - Cached
  • The lesson is simple: control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
  • trend toward sharing lecture material online
  • what role, if any, the educational institution plays in coordinating any of these components
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  • In this near future world, students are the administrators. All of the administrative functions have been “pushed down” into a substrate of software. Education has evolved into something like a marketplace, where instructors “bid” to work with students. Now since most education is funded by the government, there will obviously be other forces at play; it may be that “administration”, such as it is, represents the government oversight function which ensures standards are being met. In any case, this does not look much like the educational institution of the 20th century – though it does look quite a bit like the university of the 13th century, where students would find and hire instructors to teach them subjects.
  • The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers, anywhere
  • The classroom will both implode – vanishing online – and explode – the world will become the classroom.
  • Opening education up to market forces is a good thing when the market is a collection of people who want their children to get a great education (parents/guardians). Market forces are not a good thing when the market is a collection of people who want shorter, easier classes and more time to hang out (students).
  • If it can be rated, graded, or judged it will be. If that information can be archived it will be. If it can be accessed it will be. If it can be shared it will be. That is, as you point out, disruptive.
  • I read George’s comment with sadness. It does kids an injustice. Most kids don’t like a “soft” teacher. They want a fair deal. Think of your own school days- who were the teachers who inspired you - it wasn’t the guy who wanted to be your friend - it was the the guy who taught you with enthusiasm, knowledge and above all could communicate his ideas to you.
Adam Bohannon

Hearing on the "Digital Future of the United States: Part I -- The Future of the World ... - 0 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 08 Feb 08 - Cached
  • Though I was privileged to lead the effort that gave rise to the Web in the mid-1990s, it has long passed the point of being something designed by a single person or even a single organization. It has become a public resource upon which many individuals, communities, companies and governments depend. And, from its beginning, it is a medium that has been created and sustained by the cooperative efforts of people all over the world.
  • The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails.... The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation.
Frankie

mediascape1.jpg (JPEG Image, 3200x2400 pixels) - 0 views

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mediascape

shared by Frankie on 07 Feb 08 - No Cached
  • Frankie on 07 Feb 08
     
    Something I found on the internet, hosted on my own file server
Mike Wesch

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
Bill Genereux

Stryde Hax: The Spy at Harriton High - 0 views

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shared by Bill Genereux on 01 Mar 10 - Cached
  • packet sniffer
  • Perbix describes his use of this feature outside of school grounds repeatedly during a conversation with Absolute Software employees. They were enthusiastic... now they're throwing LMSD under the bus?
  • spent hours reading forum posts, messages, and communications from Mike Perbix, his "digital shadow".
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  • LANRev was designed to bypass this security measure.
  • listen carefully to the webcast, and listen for the word "house" at 1:28. Listen for "yes we have used it."
  • Cult of the Dead Cow's first Bo2k release
  • These kids are learning that security is something that happens to you
  • I don't ever want my kids on the business end of Remote Desktop Curtain Mode
  • There are a lot of school districts, administrators, IT professionals, and security professionals who see nothing wrong with this documentary.
  • affected parents to have the hard drive removed from their children's laptops and digitally imaged before the laptop is connected to a network.
Jesse Walker

African Mass Media -- Shallow Roots and Little Influence - 1 views

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mass media africa little influence

shared by Jesse Walker on 15 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Colonialism brought the print and electronic media which become another form of communication hitherto unused in African Societ
  • role of the media in Africa is something that to date has not yet been clearly ascertained.
  • First, African media systems are very small urban phenomena.
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  • Second, when it comes to the print media it is only those who can read and write and have the purchasing power who have access to the limited titles available
  • Third, African media systems are so undercapitalised that existence is precarious and the mortality of newspapers and magazines is very high. This is compounded by poor management and poor distribution systems. The transport networks are so underde
  • In terms of content, most programming is cheap and old programmes from Europe, North America and Australia.
  • perhaps the media in Africa is used more for its entertainment value than its ability to inform or teach people how to improve their living standards
presentsavage

Why I Ban Laptops in my Classroom - 3 views

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shared by presentsavage on 12 Feb 11 - Cached
  • presentsavage on 12 Feb 11
     
    Professor thinks laptops encourage thoughtless transcription of lectures, give bored students something to do. It's only a matter of time before he goes this far: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80925439/
presentsavage

Another Technology-Related Privacy Complaint - 3 views

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shared by presentsavage on 09 Feb 11 - Cached
  • presentsavage on 09 Feb 11
     
    School accused of spying on students through webcams in school-issued MacBooks. I've seen a few stories like this- I've yet to see one come to any fruition. But it's something to think about as another way media can be pervasive- or a way technology could become pervasive. Does the battle for the view include the battle for being viewed (or not viewed)?
Lyndi Stucky

South Africa's Newspapers written in English? How this effects law makers decitions. - 0 views

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  • Lyndi Stucky on 20 Feb 11
     
    It talks about how English-language newspapers dominate South Africa's print media. This is very interesting to me because you would think that more people would want to read something in their native language, yet millions of Africans are preferring to read their newspaper in English. It also stated that "the English-language press is also read by the most important decision makers and policy advisers in the country on a regular basis and no doubt influences coverage in non-English newspapers as well as television and radio". What in the world is going on here? This is corrupting their culture!
Lyndi Stucky

Culture, Globalization, Mediation - 2 views

www.jstor.org.er.lib.k-state.edu/...25064857

shared by Lyndi Stucky on 07 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Lyndi Stucky on 07 Mar 11
     
    This article helped guide my ideas for my video about how widespread technology can go across the globe. It talks about critical ethnography of the cultural politics of globalization and a broader concept of a medium. I like that it emphasizes on how we are a "public culture". That term is something I want to use in my video because everything we do now is public and the majority of people are okay with that.
Lyndi Stucky

War and Peace in the Global Village Part III (pages 126-190) Marchall McLuhan - 1 views

War and Peace in the Global Village Part III (pages 126-190) Marchall McLuhan

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  • Lyndi Stucky on 07 Mar 11
     
    This talks about how "technology disturbs the image, both private and corporate in any society, so much that fear and anxiety ensue and a new quest for identity has to begin". This helps me because I think it is a lot easier for someone to hide and protest behind a camera and act like they are tough and are going to do something big while yelling at a camera vs. going out and yelling a the government with few watching. So the images that we are seeing over here in America or anywhere else in the world could be full of people who are acting in a manner that they have never acted before. These pages are talking about how technology worked in other wars as well, so it gives me an idea of what it could be doing now (history repeats its self).
Steven Kelly

Why You Learn More Effectively by Writing Than Typing - 10 views

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shared by Steven Kelly on 18 Feb 11 - No Cached
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      Kelsey Duck on 18 Feb 11
       
      This is awesome. Do you have any sights where I can look this kind of "keyboard" up
  • Steven Kelly on 18 Feb 11
     
    Interesting article about the learning benefits of traditional writing vs. typing.
puentinl23

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