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This Ted Talk explores the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief efforts through recent examples. An interesting look at how digital media is impacting aid efforts.

This article from the summer discusses First Nations leaders use of social media in the recent AFN election for National Chief. It is interesting because it talks about the impact of new new media for voters in remote communities. 

We've been talking about Wente in class so much recently, I thought it would be good to take a look at an article she wrote concerning a topic we are all familiar with: university. Interesting to see the rhetorical devices at play.

Really amazing rebuttal to her comments here: http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2012/10/22/wentes-university-prescription-is-misguided/ worth it if you can fit it in!

This article explores how pursuasive video games are users and is interesting in light of our discussions on technological determinism. Talks about games ability to educate and inspire change/behaviour modification in users. 

Ways in which people lie using digital technologies and also how technology has changed the ways we fib.

Talks about ways to build your personal brand. 

When we talk about sharing online, we often forget that through sharing, credibility and accountability for copyright is lost.

Justin Trudeau talking social media at the Facebook Summit in Toronto - and it's impact on elections. 

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! 

This is a great article that touches on many of the things we talked about in Janice's class this week. There are also some links to the innovation/diffusion readings for virtual org.

This article comes from the media relations section. Walmart has felt that the Huffington Post has published too many inaccuate articles about the company, and it is their business decision to no longer participate with this news source.

I think is really interesting when we look at the ways we communicate health causes and programs. Movember has turned into a really "sexy" cause as is support for a lot of other campaigns.

I thought this was interesting considering we have been talking about user generated content. Also, it is a good example of how social media has changed the way we look at major events.

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.

A very interesting movie that deals with anonymity on the internet. 2 filmakers look at a friendship formed online between an artist and a small-town family. I really liked the documentary!

The filmmakers of this documentary have come under a lot of fire as to whether or not the film was staged. After reflecting it does seem coincidental that so much of this key points of the storyline are caught on tape. However, staged or not it really makes you question who you might be talking to on the internet.

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.