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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jessica McDonough

Jessica McDonough

Anonymous no more - 1 views

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    Is browsing anonymously possible?
Jessica McDonough

Addicted? Really? - 1 views

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    Should internet addiction be in the DSM?
Jessica McDonough

Glitzkrieg - 0 views

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    How to buy status/reputation.
Jessica McDonough

GA prison riots - 0 views

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    The first major prison riot orchestrated via contraband cell phones.
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Follow my leader - 2 views

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    Large groups with ignorant members seem to thrive in nature (and democracy?).
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On Language ends - 0 views

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    Zimmer discusses how language will become more technologically mediated.
Jessica McDonough

Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins - 0 views

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    This reminds me of David Weinberger's discussion of the Corbis and Bettman photo archives at the beginning of his book.
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Two new books reviewed - 0 views

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    Aboujaoude thinks the Internet harms us, while McGonigal (as we have seen) thinks the opposite. "If Aboujaoude is the Internet's Hobbes, McGonigal is its Rousseau."
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Crowdfunding - 0 views

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    Kickstarter and other sites allow people to donate money to artists, etc. It may be an example of how virtual communities function with real-world matters.
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Egypt's Recent Internet Blackout - 0 views

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    Details are emerging about the recent blackout.
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Internet Blackouts - 0 views

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    On Jan. 25 a bill was introduced in the Senate to allow the President to shut down the Internet in an emergency. This article discusses shutdowns in Egypt, China, Nepal, Tunisia, Iran, Thailand, and North Korea.
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Wikipleadia - 0 views

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    the problems with crowdsourcing content
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Not just talk - 0 views

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    Mobile phones have many useful apps in poor countries, including verifying safety of medicine, assisting trade, enabling "crowdvoicing" and creating branchless microbanking systems.
Jessica McDonough

AnyBody: Parents are ignoring their children for their BlackBerry - 1 views

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    Sherry Turkle's new book is cited.
Jessica McDonough

logos - 1 views

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    Clay Shirky and how the Internet allows people to vote for logos, etc.
Jessica McDonough

Factors Affecting the Use of Social Networking - 1 views

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    various concerns that affect its use
Jessica McDonough

Sherry Turkle's Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each O... - 0 views

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    People used to use the Internet to try on personalities and express themselves freely. Now it may be a corporate trap. Social robots sometimes supplant people. The author comments on "the banalities of electronic interaction" and how we don't interact in meaningful ways. However, some studies have shown than facebook users, for instance, have greater social capital.
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