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Maryam Kaymanesh

Social Media Has Good and Bad Effects on Kids: Experts - 1 views

consumer.healthday.com/...ts-on-kids-experts-651251.html

social social media media classroom student technology social networking

shared by Maryam Kaymanesh on 26 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • and nearly one-quarter of teens say they log on to their favorite social media sites 10 or more times each day.
  • "Facebook is geared toward teen age and up. There are ads and cont
  • ent on the site for an older group.
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  • he report found that social media encourage kids to connect with each other and to express their creativity.
  • They also provide an opportunity for learning,
  • Bullying was around before the Internet, but cyberbullying makes it easier,"
  • "Kids have always wanted to look at nude pictures, and today, taking and sending a picture can be done in a second,"
  • "We need more technology infrastructure, and pediatricians need to be ready to intervene and help educate young people and their parents on how to be more media literate, and how they can evaluate the types of things they're exposed to,"
  • "Facebook depression."
braxtondn

Selfies and Self-Esteem, Emotional Effects of Pictures - 0 views

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effects selfies images social media

shared by braxtondn on 11 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • So, if you’re doing a little more than documenting the moments of your life, and obsessing about your image seems to be taking over your life, what can you do to put things into perspective? “Make sure the focus is on the internal as much as the external,” says Weiner. “If all the images are fabricated to a degree, they’re not really showing life as it really is. Not all moments are perfect and model-ready. Enjoy your beauty, take that selfie, but be present for those memories while you're taking the photo.”
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 11 Jul 14
       
      This is interesting because of the phrase " model ready". 
  • “It may reset the industry standard of beauty to something more realistic.”
  • “It can be empowering. Some women use it as a way to control how their image is portrayed in social media, which is completely fine.”
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  • “It depends on how you use it. If you're using it as a tool to document feeling good about yourself and you’re just taking mementos of living a great life, that’s fine.”
  • “The concern lies when people who are using it to create a personae that will be approved of, i.e., how many Facebook or social media clicks, 'likes,' and approvals they get. Facebook and other types of social media create a feedback loop, and some people take more to feed their self-esteem, which can become more important than simply documenting the experience.”
  • Jess Weiner, Global Self-Esteem Ambassador for Dove, a social messaging strategist, and CEO of Talk to Jess, has seen a considerable rise in self-esteem issues with the pressure to constantly be camera-ready. “I have seen a remarkable shift is self-esteem issues with the rise of the selfies," she says. "The pressure to be camera-ready can elevate self-esteem issues, with the pressure of commenting on posts and with the rise of social media. It has a more competitive aspect, and that can really put the pressure on.”
majeeds

Loneliness as the Cause and the Effect of Problematic Internet Use: The Rel...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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shared by majeeds on 29 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Loneliness as the Cause and the Effect of Problematic Internet Use: The Relationship between Internet Use and Psychological Well-Being.
    • majeeds
      majeeds on 29 Jun 14
       
      #diigodynamics
normonique

Can the Nervous System Be Hacked? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-nervous-system-be-hacked.html

bioengineering brain neurocommunication neurodevelopment neurogrowth neurology neuroscience neurotechnology normonique pychology technology

shared by normonique on 29 Jun 14 - Cached
  • But communication between nerves and the immune system was considered impossible, according to the scientific consensus in 1998.
  • It would have been “inconceivable,” he added, to propose that nerves were directly interacting with immune cells.
  • electrical pulses to the rat’s exposed vagus nerve. He stitched the cut closed and gave the rat a bacterial toxin known to promote the production of tumor necrosis factor, or T.N.F., a protein that triggers inflammation in animals, including humans.
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  • the nervous system was like a computer terminal through which you could deliver commands to stop a problem,
    • normonique
      normonique on 29 Jun 14
       
      This small passage answer my question of 'if the nervous system could be directly wired to technology' 
  • All the information is coming and going as electrical signals
  • Inflammatory afflictions like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease are currently treated with drugs — painkillers, steroids and what are known as biologics, or genetically engineered proteins. But such medicines, Tracey pointed out, are often expensive, hard to administer, variable in their efficacy and sometimes accompanied by lethal side effects.
    • normonique
      normonique on 29 Jun 14
       
      This is a refreshing approach to cures from medicine which has a tedious list of side affects with no promise of correcting the initial problem. 
  • His work seemed to indicate that electricity delivered to the vagus nerve in just the right intensity and at precise intervals could reproduce a drug’s therapeutic — in this case, anti-inflammatory — reaction. His subsequent research would also show that it could do so more effectively and with minimal health risks.
  • bioelectronics is straightforward: Get the nervous system to tell the body to heal itself.
  • normonique on 29 Jun 14
     
    This post is incredible, it's exciting to understand how technology can tell the brain to heal itself. 
symone008

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles4(3)/escalating.pdf - 0 views

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government privacy qualityoflife #ThoughtVectors #tv008 internet

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      symone008 on 02 Jul 14
       
      Abstract- What legal and criminal events have facilitated a reevaluation of the balance privacy & security? Find examples Historically Police Strategies involve high surveillance and less privacy Preventive law enforcement has caused a new civil privacy paradigm. How does this affect us? Whitaker (2003: 52) claims that "the historical cycle in which violent threats generate the expansion of arbitrary and intrusive powers of government is being repeated. Once again, the constitutional protection of rights is being dismissed, sometimes from the highest offices in the land, as an inconvenient impediment to safety."  - police use crime control/drugs/terrorism to justify expanding their powers  Balancing of Competing Interest Standard- test devised to weigh the permissibility of police surveillance and search powers in relation to privacy Patriots Act ECPA- police may intercept electronic communications, without a warrant or court order CALEA- internet service provider easy access to law enforcement Effects of Increased Police Surveillance on civic life - diminution of privacy rights - Alien conspiracy - Public anxiety  - Public disruption- impediment to free movement - demise of fundamental democratic ideals -- Orwellian surveillance  there is an absence of  understanding, among researchers, about the scope of police surveillance Effects on this  dimension of public existence - assess the social and psychological impact of the US police surveillance on civil life? How can we maintain the balance of security and privacy? Withnot being ill-equipped or not deminishing the quality of the US life. 
  • symone008 on 02 Jul 14
     
    Great article of the impact of US police surveillance on civil life.
George Neff

The Netflix effect: how binge watching is changing television | News | TechRadar - 0 views

www.techradar.com/...is-changing-television-1215808

#ThoughtVectors netflix bingewatching

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  • The bold new era of content distribution and technological efficiency has served up entire, original award-winning series series like Netflix' House of Cards and Orange is the New Black for consumption in one sitting, if the viewer desires.
  • Quite frankly, we've never had it so good.
  • empowered the consumer.
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  • We spoke to television scholars and media psychologists on whether marathon viewing is really enhancing our experience, beyond the buffet. If we can have everything, does everything mean anything?
  • "Even a single episode has so many highs and lows that by the end of it you're so beaten up, you're less receptive to the emotional and intellectual ideas being put forth. Yet still we click and watch another one."
  • Netflix says it's more organic that way – it also means that if you don't do anything the episodes will just keep on coming.
  • With more traditional distribution models there is arguably more of an opportunity to let the experience sink in, find an appreciation and look forward to the next part of the journey.
  • "Breaking Bad has become the greatest example of the perfect show for binge viewing, he tells us. "Not only is it okay to binge view a series like that, but it is a better way to watch it.
  • you can understand the inner workings of these stories if you view them in more concentrated chunks
  • binge watching is the antithesis to how TV traditionally works.
  • Now, thanks to the advent of high-speed internet and the connected services they've enabled, technology has surpassed the content.
  • Ironically enough, the week-to-week format we enjoyed/endured during our last hours with Jesse and Walt proved to be an anomaly for millions who latched on to the growing buzz and raced through the previous five-and-half-seasons during the 12-month pre-climax hiatus – the binge before the episodic storm.
  • "I think Breaking Bad is probably as close as we're going to come to such a universal, cultural televisual event again," said film and television historian and associate professor at UCLA Jonathan Kuntz.
  • Breaking Bad, as it turned out, bridged the two eras perfectly, offering a stunning paradox of each distribution model's merits.
  • "The generation coming up now, all they're going to know is on demand. What pleasure they derive from anything will come from that,"
  • Another factor to consider in the great binge debate is that feeling of withdrawal when we run out of new episodes.
  • "The [binge viewing] experience is so good that you feel physically sad that it's over. That sense you had is more attached to it being a great artistic experience,"
  • The strength of our desire for gratification plays into a debate the psychologists call Connoisseur vs Addict. The former loves to be present in the moment, can savour the engagement and sees how everything ties into a beautiful package. The latter just needs a fix.
  • "An addict is working on a two-pronged schema, which is aspiration and completion. Aspiration is thedopamine-fuelled desire to recapture a feeling," he told TechRadar."When you get the completion, it's not about the rush, but ultimately about achieving the aspiration of the completion. When things are that accessible, what happens to the value of the product?"
ewingjm2

Does Humor Make You Live Longer? - 1 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...oes-humor-make-you-live-longer

#ThoughtVectors #laughteristhecure #teamzeotrope

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  • ewingjm2 on 26 Jun 14
     
    I just attended a "Laughter is Good Medicine" seminar put on by a local hospital. The speaker pointed to evidence showing that laughing has such good effects as: Reduce blood pressure Lower blood glucose Dull pain Alleviate stress and anxiety Improve feeling of well being ... and it even burns substantial calories.
George Neff

Your Brain While Watching Orange Is the New Black - Shape Magazine - 0 views

www.shape.com/...your-brain-binge-watching-tv

#ThoughtVectors bingewatching media netflix brain

shared by George Neff on 15 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Like a perfectly addictive drug, almost every aspect of the television viewing experience grabs and holds your brain’s attention, which explains why it’s so tough to stop watching after just one (or three) episodes of Orange is the New Black.
  • Characters run or shout or shoot accompanied by sound effects and music. No two moments are quite alike. To your brain, this kind of continuously morphing sensory stimulation is pretty much impossible to ignore, explains Robert F. Potter, Ph.D., director of the Institute for Communication Research at Indiana University.
  • “Our brains are hardwired to automatically pay attention to anything that’s new in our environment, at least for a brief period of time,” he explains. And it’s not just humans; all animals evolved this way in order to spot potential threats, food sources, or reproductive opportunities, Potter says.
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  • “This also explains how you can sit in front of the TV and binge for hours and hours at a time and not feel a loss of entertainment,” he says. “You brain doesn’t have much time to grow bored.”
  • 
Studies show that, by this point, most of your brain activity has shifted from the left hemisphere to the right, or from the areas involved with logical thought to those involved with emotion. There has also been a release of natural, relaxing opiates called endorphins, research indicates.
  • You’re noodle isn’t really analyzing or picking apart the data it’s receiving. It’s basically just absorbing. Potter calls this “automatic attention.” He says, “The television is just washing over you and your brain is marinating in the changes of sensory stimuli.”
  • At the same time, the content of your television show is lighting up your brain’s approach and avoid systems, Potter says. Put simply, your brain is pre-programmed for both attraction and disgust, and both grab and hold your attention in similar ways. Characters you hate keep you engaged just as much (and sometimes more) than characters you love.
  • 
Like any addictive drug, cutting off your supply triggers a sudden drop in the release of those feel-good brain chemicals, which can leave you with a sense of sadness and a lack of energy, research shows. Experiments from the 1970s found that asking people to give up TV for a month actually triggered depression and the sense that the participants had “lost a friend.”
perezmv

Independent Survey Finds Advertisers and Media Companies Alike View Technology as Key Differentiator : Press Releases : Videology : video advertising platform - 0 views

www.videologygroup.com/...a-companies-alike-view-technol

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  • The survey included 150 advertisers, media companies and agencies across the U.S. and Canada and was designed to explore the hypothesis that the evolving combination of data, technology and cross-device viewing would lead to holistic, platform-agnostic planning of linear television and digital video advertising
  • consumer engagement with content on a second screen will increase moderate or significantly
  • Another key finding is that while all parties agree that technology will be a differentiator, there are still multiple views on what this technology should enable and the capabilities that it should offer,”
kahn_artist

Meet the Good Guys of the Deep Web - Hit & Run : Reason.com - 1 views

reason.com/...deep-web-antiheroes

websurfing internet deep web knowledge

shared by kahn_artist on 25 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Doctor X is a trained physician that works on harm reduction projects in real life but helps Silk Road users in his free time by providing answers to any of their questions—all for free. He started in June 2013, and received 600 questions and 5,000 visits after just three months. In an interview with Joseph Cox of Vice, Doctor X said: "Drug users need more...They need answers, and that's what I try to provide. People ask me about the real risks and adverse effects, drug combinations [illegal and prescriptive] and the use of drugs in persons suffering from different conditions, such as diabetes or neurological problems."
    • kahn_artist
      kahn_artist on 26 Jun 14
       
      This intrigues me for the same reason Wikipedia does -- it allows an almost endless amount of knowledge to anyone who knows how to seek it.
  • jamieparkerson on 25 Jun 14
     
    Most mainstream media coverage has derided the Deep Web as a hub of child pornography and hitmen for hire. But though there may be depraved activities facilitated by the underground network, there are also many upstanding individuals using marketplaces like the Silk Road to ease the pain of unjust laws and otherwise do good.
  • kahn_artist on 26 Jun 14
     
    Article talks about basically the Black Market of the internet. Not directly useful, but I could work it in if I gear my topic towards the freedom and benefits of deep web surfing.
kahn_artist

hinder-enhance.pdf - 3 views

www.sjsu.edu/...hinder-enhance.pdf

knowledge internet websurfing

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  • kinseyem on 24 Jun 14
     
    Article by Mei Yeung-Fang discussing pros and cons of how the internet effects learning and teaching.
  • kahn_artist on 26 Jun 14
     
    Note to self to read later. Title leads me to believe I could work this into my argument on how Wikipedia encourages knowledge.
braxtondn

USATODAY.com - Do thin models warp girls' body image? - 0 views

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  • "We have done studies of grade-school girls, and even in grade 1, girls think the culture is telling them that they should model themselves after celebrities who are svelte, beautiful and sexy."
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Being sexy doesn't mean you have to be skinny. As long as the skin you're in makes you feel sexy and beautiful thats all that should matter. People don't need advice from a celebrity, who also struggled with their body image, to tell them that in order to be considered sexy by the media and today's society, you have to be skinny.
  • Some girls can reject that image, but it's a small percentage: 18% in Murnen's research
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      That is a shame that only 18% are unaffected by media's new idea of an acceptable look. They must either have a high self-esteem or do not interact with the media as much as the other 82%.
  • those who were exposed to the most fashion magazines were more likely to suffer from poor body images.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      This shows that magazines such as Seventeen and Vogue are held responsible for the negative image that they are putting into teens' mind. They do not need to be skinny enough to put on a magazine cover, they need to accept the skin they are in and show it.
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  • t's not surprising that women want to be slender and beautiful, because as a society "we know more about women who look good than we know about women who do good," says Audrey Brashich, a former teen model and author of All Made Up: A Girl's Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty.
    • braxtondn
      braxtondn on 26 Jun 14
       
      Hearing this from a teen model who was probably in the 18% of young women who weren't effected by the media, is amazing because she knows what is most important. Although looks play a major part in being successful, the hard work is more important. Media is taking away the important concept and forcing a lesser concept to become the main focus.
lilymg

Police brutality in the iPhone era :: Cover :: Philadelphia City Paper - 0 views

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police brutality social media internet

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      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Opposing view: Claims that police afraid to act because of "retribution"
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Can you be arrested for videotaping? Depends on state?
  • The video was uploaded a day later and viewed more than 200,000 times. Within a week, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey announced Josey’s firing and the DA dropped disorderly conduct charges against Guzman
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    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Sometimes video evidence can genuinely help against cases involving brutality 
  • a phenomenal 6.7 million times.
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Videos posted online can be seen by everyone, once videos go viral they can gain an incredible amount of views and attention
  • And YouTube and social media have democratized the distribution of video, just as the camcorder and, subsequently, the cameraphone revolutionized their recording.
    • lilymg
      lilymg on 26 Jun 14
       
      Youtube is also a useful platform for posting videos of police violence
  • National Fraternal Order of Police executive director Jim Pasco has warned USA Today that “the proliferation of cheap video equipment … has had a chilling effect on some officers, who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video.”
  • police in Philly and elsewhere have been known to arrest citizen videographers and destroy cameras
Kathleen Hancock

Impact of whaling on the ocean carbon cycle Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center - 0 views

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  • When whales and other large animals flourish in the ocean, they carry a substantial amount of carbon to the sea floor upon dying. Whales and other large marine vertebrates could effectively function as carbon credits
  • About 160,000 tons of carbon per year could be removed from the atmosphere if whale populations were restored to pre-industrial levels. This amount is equivalent to adding 843 hectares of forest
  • Restoring the whale populations compares favorably with unproven schemes such as iron fertilization in removing carbon from the ocean surface
  • Kathleen Hancock on 01 Jul 14
     
    Whales and carbon
Kathleen Hancock

Whale poop fights global warming - 0 views

news.smh.com.au/...bal-warming-20100616-ydl6.html

shared by Kathleen Hancock on 01 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • The iron is a terrific food for phytoplankton - marine plants that live near the ocean surface and which suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
  • As a result of faecal fertilisation, the whales remove 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, twice as much as the 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide they contribute through respiration
  • By way of comparison, 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide is equal to the emissions of almost 40,000 cars, according to an equation on the website of the US Environmental Protection Agency
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  • The whales' faeces are so effective because they are emitted in liquid form and close to the surface, before the mammals dive,
  • Industrialised whaling not only gravely threatened Southern Ocean sperm whales, it also damaged a major carbon "sink", the scientific term for something that removes more greenhouse gases than it produces
  • The Southern Ocean is rich in nitrogen but poor in iron, which is essential for phytoplankton.
  • Kathleen Hancock on 01 Jul 14
     
    Whale support of iron and carbon dioxide
Kathleen Hancock

The Effect of Individuals' Organization Affiliation on Their Internet Donations - 0 views

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internet donations organization

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 07 Jul 14
     
    Non-profit organizations using the internet for donations/communication
Kathleen Hancock

The Effect of Individuals' Organization Affiliation on Their Internet Donations - 0 views

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internet donations organization

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 07 Jul 14
     
    Non-profit organizations using the internet to obtain donations/supporters
majeeds

Your Brain on Computers - Plugged-In Parents - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...10childtech.html

shared by majeeds on 26 Jun 14 - Cached
  • “There’s something that’s so engrossing about the kind of interactions people do with screens that they wall out the world,” she said. “I’ve talked to children who try to get their parents to stop texting while driving and they get resistance, ‘Oh, just one, just one more quick one, honey.’ It’s like ‘one more drink.’ ”
    • majeeds
      majeeds on 26 Jun 14
       
      Another instance of the addiction of technology. Addiction effects the brain very negatively. 
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