Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
ReadWriteWeb, via iStrategyLabs:
How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in a mere six months, according to estimates Facebook provides to advertisers that were archived for tracking ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
[An uncredited photo from the Iranian government's assault on Tehran University.]
I've been riveted to the ongoing revolt in Iran. While many mainstream media outlets dropped the ball initially, even those few with brave reporters on the ground have been hampered by a foreign media crackdown. Much of the news is ...
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Teens and Texting (New York Times, 5/26/09)
Step 1: Select an act, norm, or condition to become stigmatized. The group or subculture primarily associated with this topic should ideally have little to no political power, and already be associated with other deviant behaviors (e.g., teenagers).
Step 2: Write a title stating the ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
My thesis, Learning to Like Facebook? Effects of Cultural and Educational Capital on the Use of Social Network Sites in a Population of University Students, is now available for download.
Abstract: This study explores the reasons why university students prefer to join or participate frequently in one social network website (SNS) ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
David Gibson at the Complexity and Social Networks Blog hypothesizes about Facebook and (anti) social capital:
I predict that we will eventually want to add something that I am tempted to call anti-social capital, which is a snarky (and imprecise) term for the absence of ties of a certain type, namely ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
MySpace: 90,000 Sex Offenders Removed from Site
When I think of the attitudinal outlook driving moral panics, I think of my experience working as a technology assistant at a one-to-one laptop high school at the height of the MySpace/Facebook sexual predator panic from 2004-2006.
The school organized a series of informational sessions ...
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Last night, with eyes sagging and sinuses hanging out of my nose, I nevertheless spent hours customizing a new iPhone.
Tools like that fascinate me, and not just because I can play Katamari on them. It's clear that our society's most beloved toys are progressing toward holding more and more data, ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
This uproar and boycott over the new Facebook is pretty interesting in the context of my thesis.
One of the major differences between Facebook and MySpace is its design, layout, and overall aesthetic. As danah boyd colorfully notes, MySpace is ridden with "flashy...Las Vegas imagery," while Facebook is akin to a ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
CNN:
Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Jon Taplin has a post today on journalism’s future (a topic about which he's uniquely qualified to address).
Everyone knows the future of journalism is on the web, but just putting the New York Times print edition on the web is not transformative.
I think what is transformative is the work Frontline, ...
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