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Maryam Kaymanesh

Social Networking's Good and Bad Impacts on Kids - 1 views

  • Teens who use Facebook more often show more narcissistic tendencies while young adults who have a strong Facebook presence show more signs of other psychological disorders, including antisocial behaviors, mania and aggressive tendencies.
  • Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all children, preteens and teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders, as well as by making them more susceptible to future health problems
  • Facebook can be distracting and can negatively impact learning. Studies found that middle school, hig
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  • school and college students who checked Facebook at least once during a 15-minute study period achieved lower grades
  • Young adults who spend more time on Facebook are better at showing “virtual empathy” to their online friends. 
  • Online social networking can help introverted adolescents learn how to socialize behind the safety of various screens, ranging from a two-inch smartphone to a 17-inch laptop.
  • Social networking can provide tools for teaching in compelling ways that engage young students.
braxtondn

Why Selfies Matter | TIME.com - 0 views

  • self-portraits are an extension of their self-absorption, while others view it as nothing more than an outlet for self-expression,
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      Some may view the idea of a "selfie" as a form of expressing themselves, while others view it as just another trend. Either way, its an idea that has adapted to society.
  • As tweens and teens try to form their identity, selfies serve as a way to test how they look, and therefore feel, in certain outfits, make-up, poses and places. And because they live in a digital world, self-portraits provide a way of participating and affiliating with that world.
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      By participating in posting "selfies" , it is giving people permission for others to comment and voice their opinions about the picture
  • they are simply reflections of their self-exploration and nothing more. “Self captured images allow young adults and teens to express their mood states and share important experiences,”
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      The saying " a picture is worth a thousand words" applies to the idea of a selfie. 
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  • With Facebook becoming a prominent resource in young people’s’ therapy sessions, they could provide a useful jumping off point for addressing a teen’s or young adult’s self-perceptions.
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      The comments and interactions online can be either positive or negative. It just depends on what is being posted
  • “Psychologically speaking, there may be some benefit to participating in sharing selfies because this practice is interwoven in our social culture and is a way to interact socially with others.”
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      This helps support my idea that posting selfies can help boost a person's self-image.
  • selfies could be a way for therapists to break the ice and start a dialogue about what the teen was feeling when the self-portrait was taken, or why he snapped the picture in the first place
  • the material that children and adolescents view online — selfies included — can be influential in molding their sense of self.
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perezmv

Clear Channel built iHeartRadio into massive streaming radio service - 0 views

  • Pandora continues to grow with 250 million registered users
  • There are one billion FM radios in the US and 160 million smartphones and 160 million PCs, so it’s still a subset of the FM marketplace.
  • Pittman doesn’t believe streaming hours will overtake traditional radio in his lifetime.
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  • “Music collections always replace each other and radio always tends to be yet another choice,” he says. “Satellite didn’t kill FM. AM didn’t kill FM. (Streaming music) one more choice and one more device you can listen to the radio on.”
  • digital is an important growth area for the business, even if the $17 billion or so that advertisers spend on radio each year is slow to move over to the Web.
  • In 2012, Clear Channel made strange bedfellows when it joined forces with Pandora to lobby Congress to lower the rates their services were required to pay artists to stream their music online. The companies eventually backed down from that effort in order to focus on a different political tact.
  • Online, people “tend to have a favorite and then they bounce around a couple different services,”
kahn_artist

Impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices and choices - 0 views

  • Surfing the Internet has become a daily routine of the new generation.
  • The present generation especially the college students are well versed with the new technologies and their application in present networked society
  • Now the potential reader can access and browse the online information from the whole web while using his/her terminal at home.
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  • The hypertext and hypermedia technologies allow the e-readers to go from one page to another by selecting links in various directions popularly known as surfing
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    The internet brings a wider scope of reading material.
kahn_artist

A review of Web searching studies and a framework for future research - Jansen - 2000 - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Wiley Online Library - 0 views

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    A study on trends in internet-based research
morganaletarg

Everyday Fandom: Fan Clubs, Blogging, and the Quotidian Rhythms of the Internet | Theberge | Canadian Journal of Communication - 1 views

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  • fan clubs become more than simple, isolated groups of individuals with a particularly strong attachment to an individual celebrity or media text. Indeed, fan clubs as a medium serve specific, though different, functions for both fans and the music industry: they act as a conduit through which the fans' desire for contact with the artist is channelled, at the same time as they serve as a means for the promotion of tours and commercial releases. They can be used both to create a sense of identity and belonging and as a means of direct marketing.
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      "desire for contact" particularly stirring word choice
  • popular culture is, by definition, "of the people," and it works against commodification (1989). In the present context, however, the fan clubs appear to operate in a more complex modality, with fan interests and industry interests feeding off of and reinforcing each other, rather than acting in opposition
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      lol, not in my neck of the woods
jamieparkerson

Anonymous Browser Mass Hit as Russians Seek to Escape Internet Censorship | News - 0 views

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    The government's campaign for online censorship has created a backlash, with the number of Russia-based users of anonymous web surfing software Tor more than doubling in the past three weeks. The Tor network, which allows users to anonymously visit websites blocked in their country, numbered almost 200,000 users from Russia on Wednesday, compared to some 80,000 as of June 1, according to official statistics for Tor usage on Torproject.org.
Blake Mollnow

Getting Started with Chrome extension - Diigo help - 0 views

  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
  • Highlighting can also be accomplished from the context pop-up. After the Chrome extension is installed, whenever you select text on a webpage, the context pop-up will appear, allowing you to accomplish text-related annotation. Highlight Pop-up Menu – After you highlight some text, position your mouse cursor over it and the highlight pop-up menu will appear. The highlight pop-up menu allows you to add notes to, share, or delete the highlight.
  • Sticky Note Click the middle icon on the annotation toolbar to add a sticky note to the page. With a sticky note, you can write your thoughts anywhere on a web page.
jamieparkerson

Don\'t trust privacy apps, use Tor (Wired UK) - 0 views

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    Tor is not a silver bullet, but as we become more aware of the types of ongoing government and corporate surveillance of our online lives, it remains a vital tool. This was the message delivered by Runa Sandvik, a contributor to the open source Tor Project, at Kaspersky Lab's open day.
jamieparkerson

Tor Internet privacy tool sees downloads jump to 120 million - 0 views

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    In the year since Edward Snowden's leaks lifted the veil on the National Security Agency's massive global surveillance apparatus, the powerful online anonymity tool known as Tor has been downloaded about 120 million times, according to Andrew Lewman, the Tor project's executive director.
gerellmalazarte

Internet Privacy | Computer Privacy | Microsoft Privacy - 0 views

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    Precautions to protect your privacy
morganaletarg

Access and affiliation: The literacy and composition practices of English-l...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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      all on legitimacy of writing & online environment for writing development
Sarah008 Burley

Things You Should Know About YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, and Instagram - 1 views

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    Many people are making use of key online video platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, and Vine to market their businesses to large, global audiences. However, popularity can be a double-edged sword.
gerellmalazarte

Facebook draws fire from privacy advocates over ad changes - The Washington Post - 1 views

  • Facebook came under fire Thursday from privacy advocates who say that changes to its ad network mark an unprecedented expansion of its ability to collect users' personal data.
  • Facebook, of course, is no stranger to privacy criticism. In 2011, the company settled charges with the FTC over changes to its privacy policy
  • In its announcement Thursday, the company said that it will follow competitors in joining the Digital Advertising Alliance and adopting that organization's central tools to let users opt out of data collection for ads.
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  • "It's true that everybody is doing all of this, and that's how the system works," Chester said. "But this is unprecedented. Given Facebook's scale, this is a dramatic expansion of its spying on users."
  • He said that Facebook, in particular, has become skilled at reading what people understand about online privacy and figuring out how to gradually expand its data collection efforts in ways that will tamp down criticism.
normonique

The Future of Communication? Let's Ask the Experts - 1 views

  • Technology has been helping us to communicate easier, faster and more often. We’re now at a point where we’re “always on” and panic sets in when we temporarily lose the ability to communicate – for example when we lose the data connection our mobile phone.
  • However, in spite of technological developments, we still don’t seem to understand each other.
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      The african drum simple tool but very powerful 
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  • Long before today’s technology existed, the African drum was perhaps the most powerful messaging technology,
  • When the telephone was invented, the fabulous reality was that we could hold distant conversations and spend as long as we liked adding context.
  • Remember the last text you sent that someone didn’t understand? Remember the email that got misunderstood? Or maybe a tweet that you realize could be interpreted in a different way (but you only had 140 characters to use)?
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      This relate to the article that social networking makes communication fast but sometimes ineffective because of misinterpretation due to not having the face to face interaction
  • It’s possible we will look to create more communication tools that will advise us how to reason, and advise us how to feel. If you think about it, this may well remove what is left of being a human from our race.
  • It’s amazing. In only a few years touchscreens in our smartphones and tablets drastically changed the way we interact with humans and machines. In the next few years we’ll see an explosion of touchscreens invading every part of our lives; from the bathroom mirror, to the touchscreen table and even the possibility to interact with your living-room touch window.
  • Intelligent personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S-voice allow us to input text or speak commands with our voice instead of typing.
  • An important element will probably also be mood-communication: that our mood (reflected in brain wave patterns) will affect our surroundings in order for them to give feedback and for example lift our mood and shape it in various ways.
  • Dream modification will be another interesting area – the dream we wake up from in the morning largely determines in what mood we start the day. So if that last dream period can be modified in a positive direction through fx soundscapes played softly by your iPhone (by your bed) it would potentially mean a lot for your life, work and productivity.
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      This article relates to my question of technology communicating with the nervous system. 
  • Whether we will have direct communication brain-to-brain via some sort of implanted or just attached devices I’m not sure.
  • Combining sophisticated and surprisingly detailed user profiles with online technologies and “old” tech as direct mailing, robocalls and TV ads, strategists can now truly microtarget voters.
  • Securing communications presents us with a challenge of enormous importance and complexity.
  • The future of communication is already here, it’s just – to paraphrase William Gibson – not evenly distributed. Instead of radical departures from what we have, we will most likely see incremental improvements.
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    This article answer my question of the speed of communication through technology in the future
lilymg

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

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      Opposing view: Claims that police afraid to act because of "retribution"
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      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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      Sometimes video evidence can genuinely help against cases involving brutality 
  • a phenomenal 6.7 million times.
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      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.
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      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
mjminutoli

Visual Culture Is Taking Over and Other Insights From Media | Media - Advertising Age - 2 views

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      Its alarming how beauty companies have been able to cash in on woman's insecurities by exploiting it
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      I think that the work Dove is doing is great and should be more advertised
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      I find it interesting that the most visual of the social networks in the one on the rise.
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      I think this has to do with the idea that we are growing up in a more technological age that nurtures our love of new inventions.
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      I find it interesting that shows viewers correspond to what events are happening in the real world.
  • llennials -- the largest and most important consumer segment. The populari
  • The quick popularity of "24" showed a hardening of the public's stance on security post9/11. And popular shows such as "Modern Family" and "Glee" include prominent portrayal of lead gay characters in interesting stories, indicating something of a coming out for Middle America.
  • millennials -- the largest and most important consumer segment
  • that geeks and technology have officially become cooler than chasing fame and fortune
  • the rise of Pinterest, the online pinboard for sharing images and video -- and currently the fastest-growing social-media platform.
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