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Impact of smartphones on children's psychology. Looks at how constantly taking photos is affecting children's psyche and comments on parents obsession with taking digital photos. 

Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing.

This article relates back to the issue of trolls and online identity/authenticity.

Interesting article about the future of technology and social networking by the BBC. 

Based on today's Mashup, an article on big data privacy invasion as a business model for companies. Our data is moving more and more out of our control.

In light of our discussion this week on the social web, this article challenges the dominant history of the internet suggesting that the true social web started in the 1990s with link sharing. Today, the vast trove of social traffic is essentially invisible to most analytic programs. The author calls it the "DARK SOCIAL."

Real-life example of a company that recently switched to an entirely virtual office. This manager is entirely in favour of it, but she is a self-admitted introvert.

This article looks at how different large organizations are using NASA style control centres to manage social media content and analyze who's talking about them on social networking sites! 

Campbell added that increasingly, employers are searching Facebook and Twitter before hiring and that there are jobs out there for young people with social media savvy. Starting in Grades 4 and 5 teachers want to teach students to have a responsible digital footprint. Campbell's teaching style is not uncommon. The provincial curriculum has required technology to be woven into the classroom for several years, said Clare Brett, an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. This article refers to our discussion in much earlier weeks where talked about the importance of engaging students and the younger generations in technology to avoid having a lack of a digitally literate society.

This article elaborates on the idea of the constant shifts towards more mobile and interactive digital technology. We are now able to use our smartphone to make payments. Canadians are embracing smartphones as part of their everyday life, and increasingly they are using these devices to stay connected to their finances through service like mobile banking and emerging options such as mobile payments. It is interesting how much technology has impacted our every day activities.

An interesting example of how toy companies are now marketing to kids and their families. Also, a good example of how kids are more technology literate due to the fact that they are exposed to technology at such a young age.

I just read this article (didn't see you post it until now). But for kids who have already seen and used the iPad -- they want the REAL thing!

Interesting post. I wonder how much of it is marketing and how much this tablet will actually differ from tablets geared at adults.

This article is a few weeks old, but a topic I am extremely passionate about - education and technology. 

GREAT article on how smartphones make us "superhuman" and the concept of your phone as a "phantom limb". READ IT! 

If you're a former "burner" like me - this article presented a really interesting look at how digital communications and social networking are affecting an event that has always been about rejecting mass media/the ordinary and cultivating face to face relationships. 

Interesting article about how Apple is now on a course similar to other techno companies -- "tweaking" their products and using timely release dates to maximize profits. But will they be able to innovate?

Great article about a relatively new communications strategy/software to reach out to customers to raise start up capital.

Interesting article about our dependence on mobile technology when traveling. I also found it related well to the discussion this week and the readings on virtual teams and virtual organizations.

The author makes an interesting argument about how cellphone use and constant data connection has become "domesticated" in the last five years. He makes a strong case for being cut off every once and awhile.

This is perhaps more relevant to our Communications theory class, or even for those of us in the Presentation class, but regardless I found this to be a really concise and interesting way of breaking down communication rhetorical strategies in the political realm.

In addition to the obvious way small businesses are using Pinterest (communicating with customers) some clever entrepreneurs have found the platform to be a great way to communicate inside the office as well. This short article provides three unexpected ways to use Pinterest in the office : vision boarding, staff engagement and internal communications.

I initially thought this article would point me in a different direction, but after reading it I think we are able to see cool equate to technology. In fact, while I was reading I tried to change all the "cool" words for "technology" and I still got the same message. In our society we measure coolness by your technology integration. Geek is chic.

This is an interesting article about wireless regulation (or the lack of regulation) in Canada. I thought this was especially interesting considering we were just talking about the mobile revolution and the effect it has on work.