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Show Us the Data. (It's Ours, After All.) - 1 views

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  • Jessica McDonough on 24 Apr 11
     
    Should all of the information on us be made available to us?
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In a Data-Heavy Society, Being Defined by the Numbers - 0 views

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    Sherry Turkle is quoted in this article that discusses how young people especially increasingly quantify everything.
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It's Love at First Kill - 0 views

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    People meet spouses and make other connections on World of Warcraft, as discusses in Turkle's book.
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Google Says It Collects Location Data on Phones for Location Services - 1 views

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    Google says that phones need to know your location to provide services.
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E-book business should take a page from music industry and go DRM-free - 0 views

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    Good review of the issues with DRM in ebooks.
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Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It's Your Facebook Wall - 0 views

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    Sherry Turkle is quoted in this article that discusses how social media can induce FOMO: fear of missing out.
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Ancient World Digital Library - 0 views

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    NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World has a new website with their nice collection of digital books.
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Tech Brigands - 0 views

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    Amazon's Cloud Drive allows you to upload to Amazon's servers your music, ebooks etc, but the content companies don't want you to be able to hold onto the content.
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2011 Congressional Briefing National Release of Speak Up 2010 K-12 Students and Parent... - 0 views

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    On April 1, 2011 Project Tomorrow released the report "The New 3 E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged and Empowered - How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning" at a Congressional Briefing held in Washington, DC. Their survey revealed that e-textbooks are not yet widely used in the K-12 environment.
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Trolling for your soul - 1 views

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    Facebook's comments service was launched on March 1. It prevents anonymous comments from trolls because users are logged into facebook.
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Paterson Teacher Suspended Over a Post on Facebook - 0 views

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    This is similar to the Natalie Munroe story
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Docs warn about teens and 'Facebook depression' - 0 views

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    The AAP warns that teens may become depressed from facebook. Also see http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/socialmedia2011.htm
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In City Schools, Tech Spending to Rise Despite Cuts - 0 views

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    How technology is being incorporated into education (and its costs).
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Berkman Center for Internet and Society - 0 views

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  • Jessica McDonough on 30 Mar 11
     
    Does anyone know about this institution? They do interesting work and seem to research the causes of the digital divide.
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James Gleick's tour-de-force: The Information, a natural history of information theory - 1 views

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    Cory Doctorow reviews _The Information_, which traces its history from the early lexicographers to Wikipedia.
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Stopped in their tracks - 0 views

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  • Jessica McDonough on 18 Mar 11
     
    A proposed privacy law could help as well as hurt America's web companies. A "privacy bill of rights" was introduced on March 16 by Obama, which will outline internet privacy rights. Internet Explorer and Firefox will have more do-not -track features in their new versions. Privacy laws are stricter in the EU.
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Signalling dissent - 0 views

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    Savvy techies are finding ways to circumvent politically motivated shutdowns of the internet. Dissidents get around government shutdowns of the Internet via range-extending antennae, satellites, microwave ovens' radio waves, short-range radio stations, and converting digital computer data to analogue radio signals and back to computer data again.
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Super Mario Management - 0 views

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    Jane McGonigal applied psychology book on the life lessons in gaming is reviewed in the Economist. "Frustratingly, few of the book's other examples are as convincingly argued as World of Warcraft." The review will also state that it will be a while before a game designer wins the Nobel peace prize. Her frequent mentions of her own games also "lend the book an air of self-promotion."
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The Master Switch Reviewed - 0 views

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  • Jessica McDonough on 18 Mar 11
     
    Professor Wu traces the history of communications systems. He describes similarities between radio and the Internet, such as the tendency to consolidate.
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Facebook Users Who Are Under Age Raise Concerns - 0 views

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  • Jessica McDonough on 12 Mar 11
     
    danah boyd is quoted (name capitalized).
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