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"People often think about new technologies in task-oriented ways: how to access information, how to create projects, how to make presentations. But there is a more personal dimension to the role of new technologies in the lives of young people. In this session, Sherry Turkle and Henry Jenkins explore how young people, as they engage with new technologies, begin to change the ways they think about themselves, relate to others, and participate in communities."

"This paper explores key issues people experience managing personal boundaries within and across social technologies. We look in particular at email and online social networks. We offer a theoretical framework for understanding the errors in assumptions about the singularity of identity that are currently inscribed into the sharing models of social technology systems. Through a questionnaire study we examine how people facet their identities and their lives, and how these facets are expressed through use of technology. We found for more mature users family was an extremely important context for sharing online, and that email was still a preferred form of communication for private sharing across facets of life. Single, working men had the highest level of incompatible facets, and a higher level of facet incompatibility was correlated with increased worry about sharing in the context of social networks."

"People often think about new technologies in task-oriented ways: how to access information, how to create projects, how to make presentations. But there is a more personal dimension to the role of new technologies in the lives of young people. In this session, Sherry Turkle and Henry Jenkins explore how young people, as they engage with new technologies, begin to change the ways they think about themselves, relate to others, and participate in communities.

Technology - smh.com.au

The usage of these technologies in learning processes is not a fad, it is just a normal reflection of the evolutionary development of internet. Our students like YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, ect. and spend much time in these virtual places. The informal learning based on Web 2.0 exists and functions like a "university in shadow" with possibilities of a borderless digital learning environment. So, why don't the educators present the power of social media for learning and better strategies for its utilization?

commentary on ECAR report - student use of technology - The Unofficial Facebook Blog

"Those who are seeking social media careers need to remember to remember that social media technologies are secondary to meeting business and customer needs."

"Does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology?"

This is a long article, but well worth the read - on what might be the most important technological topic facing our society.

"Over the last several years, the problem of attention has migrated right into the center of our cultural attention. [...] Everyone still pays some form of attention all the time, of course-it's basically impossible for humans not to-but the currency in which we pay it, and the goods we get in exchange, have changed dramatically."

Explores the downfall of Bebo from the primary social network in the UK to the decision to shut down in 2010.

Roundtable of discussion relating to technologies and social media.

A Q&A discussion with Mark Zuckerberg and david Kirkpatrick on the history, technology, and cultural effects of Facebook. Nothing shocking but worth the time nonetheless.

"Altimeter has conducted a research project to find out how companies are connecting social technologies to the overall buying process as well as analyzing how they increase revenues for brands."

"Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. "

Slides for 2010 Pearson survey on social media. "More than 80 percent of college faculty are using social media, with more than half using these tools as part of their teaching, according to a first-of-its-kind survey, "Social Media in Higher Education." The survey was conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group in collaboration with New Marketing Labs and Pearson, a global leader in education, technology and services."

Some very debatable assumptions about how we use technology and social media in particular in this piece; a good read nonetheless. "Five years from now, will Internet historians signpost the Facebook movie, due out in 2010, as the beginning of the site's end?"

Social networks typically promise to remove "personally identifying information" before sharing this data, to protect users' privacy. But researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that, combined with readily available data from other online sources, this anonymized data can still reveal sensitive information about users.

"The couple has been inseparable ever since-at least in a sense. In the real world, there are oceans between them."

"I have written before about Shiv Sena's militant approach towards Orkut communities critical of the party, its leader Bal Thakeray, or its Hindutva ideology. Caste-based communities on Orkut are another disturbing example of online communities mirroring the dysfunctions in Indian society."

This site is hilarious- great videos about technology.

Cartoon video depicting Facebook, Friendster and Myspace applications