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Etiquette Returns for the Digital Generation - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The Emily Posts of the Digital Age"
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Interview: Douglas Rushkoff, Author Of 'Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now' : NPR - 0 views

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    "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present' "
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Internet 2012 in numbers - 0 views

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    How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What's the most popular web browser? How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we'll answer for you.
Andrew McCluskey

Facebook Privacy Study Shows Why You Gave Up On Keeping Your Data To Yourself - 0 views

  • ew study reveals just how effectively the social network can nudge its members to behave in ways Facebook might consider most fitting.
  • An unprecedented study from Carnegie Mellon University followed the privacy practices of 5,076 Facebook users over six years
  • users steadily limited what personal data
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  • Yet through changes Facebook introduced to its platform in 2009 and 2010, the social network actually succeeded in reversing some users' inclination to avoid public disclosure of their data.
  • This result “highlights the power of the environment in affecting individual choices,"
  • "The entity that controls the structure (in this case, Facebook), ultimately remains able to affect how actors make choices in that environment."
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      The medium IS the message -- "The entity that controls the structure (in this case, Facebook), ultimately remains able to affect how actors make choices in that environment."  
  • Between 2005 and 2009, Facebook users in the study exhibited “increasingly privacy-seeking behavior” and gradually limited what information could be seen by strangers. They grew more protective of all types of personal data
  • Then something surprising happened: Between 2009 and 2010, these privacy-aware people suddenly became more open with certain kinds of personal data. The researchers observed a “significant increase in the public sharing of various types of personal information.” (Emphasis theirs.)
  • concluded the reversal was, “with high probability,” caused by an update to the social network's privacy controls in December 2009 and the launch of Community Pages and Connected Profiles in April 2010, which made some previously private information about a user’s interests more widely visible.
  • Acquisiti, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon and one of the paper's authors, said the study’s findings call into question the merits of letting companies self-regulate on matters of user privacy. On Facebook, “users were taking charge [of their privacy],” he explained. “And yet things happened to push them to a higher level of disclosure than they’d expressed an interest in previously, or pushed them to disclose [information] to third parties that did not necessarily happen with users’ awareness or consent.”
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    "An unprecedented study from Carnegie Mellon University followed the privacy practices of 5,076 Facebook users over six years, between 2005 and 2011. Researchers found that during the first four years, users steadily limited what personal data was visible to strangers within their school network. Yet through changes Facebook introduced to its platform in 2009 and 2010, the social network actually succeeded in reversing some users' inclination to avoid public disclosure of their data. "
Andrew McCluskey

Facebook users want more privacy, but are nudged toward less, study finds - Red Tape - 0 views

  • What impact will Facebook's new redesign have on users' privacy? It's far too soon to tell, but a study published this week by Carnegie-Mellon University suggests that prior design changes to the social media site have nudged users into sharing more information than they want to. 
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    What impact will Facebook's new redesign have on users' privacy? It's far too soon to tell, but a study published this week by Carnegie-Mellon University suggests that prior design changes to the social media site have nudged users into sharing more information than they want to. 
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Study: Facebook Users More Protective Even as They Reveal More About Themselves - NYTim... - 0 views

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    "Study: Facebook Users More Protective Even as They Reveal More About Themselves"
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Checking Facebook Can Improve Memory of Older Adults, Study Says | TIME.com - 0 views

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    "How Facebook Improves Memory"
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Infographic: Media Consolidation - The Illusion of Choice » OWNI.eu, News, Au... - 0 views

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    "INFOGRAPHIC: MEDIA CONSOLIDATION - THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE"
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Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Se... - 0 views

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    Steven Levy looks into Facebook's "Graph Search"
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