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"Calgary police could soon go behind the lens for a change to shoot their own news videos addressing community concerns. Other frontline officers may be given the opportunity to inform the public through frequently updated blogs. These two initiatives and many others are on the table as the Calgary Police Service maps out a new strategy to interact with the public like never before."

The immediacy of the social media seems to be drawing the audience, but what is lost in the translation? News takes time to gather, vet, and verify. So our demands for instant information would seem to be conflicting with the process of newsgathering. This piece showed that 49 percent of respondents had heard or seen a news item that turned out to be false. If we are to continue to absorb information that comes our way so quickly, at what point does credibility, authenticity, and factuality no longer apply? Worse yet, how many people will begin to remember some piece of news they saw online that is false without even realizing the error? How might this impact our own historical remembrance? Hmmmmm....

New technology: take a photo with a web-enabled camera, and receive a short description of said photo, provided by a real, live human! Will this really change the way we take photographs? The reasons we photograph? What about questions of editing, curating, filtering?

I'm interested in how Nikki S Lee crosses boundaries of her identity and how she can so easily move from one to the next. This is more easy for most people to do online where you don't have to physically become someone new.

It also sort of shows just how eager society is to classify and group others for their own convenience. Of course, Lee must be an amazing chameleon of an actress and participant/observant, but I am still surprised at how easily her groups will take to accepting what is essentially a deception or farce.

Poke through the list of columns by Virginia and peruse a few that align with our general unit theme of "social" stuff & media...

"It moves the paper much more into the linked world we all now inhabit."

Richard Prince is an art world superstar. His paintings sell for millions, and many hang in the world's great museums. But one recent series of works cannot be shown in public - at least, not lawfully. Last year, a judge found Prince liable for copyright infringement for using the photographs of another artist without permission. A federal court in New York is set to hear Prince's appeal Monday, and the outcome of that appeal could have major implications for the art world and beyond.

The Portland Mercury and historic Hollywood Theatre have come together to bring you HECKLEVISION, an all-new series that will permanently change how you think about movie-going. Here's how it works, in three easy steps: 1) We (Merc & HWT) pick a hilariously horrible movie (but one we secretly love). 2) Through the magic of MuVChat technology, you text your heckles, jokes, and commentary from your seat and they appear onscreen below the film 3) We all drink beer and laugh a lot.Sound awesome?  Then charge up those cellphones, limber up your thumbs, and get ready to launch your best text lobs at our screen!

great example of the story of intention vs. interpretation, ironic appreciation vs. new sincerity In 1989, a group of unknown Utah actors starred in what would be crowned the worst movie of all time: TROLL 2. After two decades of running from this cinematic disaster, the cast can no longer hide from the legion of followers that celebrate them for their ineptitude.

/.....or this http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/bronies-my-little-ponys/

In a move that heightened competition in online education and brought more prestige to the still-fledgling field, Harvard University and MIT announced a partnership Wednesday to offer the public mainly free Internet classes.

Heard about this on NPR today, M.I.T. and Harvard are actually starting a non-profit and have already dumped $60 million into a project they call edX, intended to "improve, not replace, the campus experience." Should turn out to be an honorable donation to the global learning community. This is an interesting move towards providing free access to quality educational information. -Another article containing a press release: Engadget Article

Meghan, did you get to see this film?

How does Facebook's Open Graph and "Social Design" concepts apply to mapping social media?  I'm not entirely sure how the process and operations work just yet, but I think there is certainly something of importance here pertaining to this week's topic.