"This course is taught at the University of Florida in the College of Journalism and Communications. It is open to any UF student who has completed JOU3101 or RTV3303 with a grade of C or better. You will find it listed under Journalism with the course number JOU4341."
Christian Crumlish describes the themes in his book, "the Power of Many," a 2004 look at social web topics. Of particular interest are his thoughts on the use of the Web and social media in the Dean Campaign of 2004.
"In a sweeping ruling with little precedent in the eight-year history of Wikipedia, the committee blocked editing from "all I.P. addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates, broadly interpreted." The ruling did allow users from those addresses to appeal to be reinstated on a case-by-case basis."
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.