EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 45, Number 4, July/August 2010 | EDUCAUSE “The current issue of EDUCAUSE Review focuses on Openness, including an article I did with Dave Cormier on Through the Open Door: Open courses as research, learning, and engagement. Articles address topics of openness as a catalyst for reform, open faculty, open students, open [...]
Research on Social Network Sites “This page provides a bibliography of articles concerning social network sites. For an overview of this space, including a definition of “social network sites,” a history of SNSs, and a literature review, see boyd & Ellison’s 2007 introduction to the JCMC Special Issue on Social Network Sites, Social Network Sites: [...]
Tagged bibliography, research, social network sitesOnline dating assistants help the lonely and busy (tags: online socialnetworking) Association of Internet Researchers The Association of Internet Researchers is the top international association for students and scholars in any discipline in the field of of Internet studies. Membership connects you with our vibrant community, gives you access to our archive of past conference [...]
Facebook updated its privacy settings making lots more public than the public thought would be public! Here are some links addressing that. Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation “Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select small community [...]
Tagged facebook, franken, nyt, privacyOne or more services have been developed recently so that you can see how your ‘brand’ or your presence on the Web: how many times you are mentioned, what information is associated with your name, and similar items. A few links related to all this follows. Reputation Professor Personal Branding Blog (tags: personal branding cpsc104) [...]
Tagged branding, Internet, personal brandHowStuffWorks “How Web Servers Work” In this article, you will learn how Web servers bring pages into your home, school or office. (tags: webserver servers tutorials internet learning guide) IANA — Root Zone Database “The Root Zone Database represents the delegation details of top-level domains, including gTLDs such as “.COM”, and country-code TLDs such as [...]
Tagged netetiquette, server, web serverThese links may not go too well together, but they are the some of the ones I was getting together for my class, Introduction to Computer Science, the other day. The first is another good TED talk. Jonathan HArris talks about ways to map, view the stories, blog entries on the Web. Very interesting stuff, [...]
Tagged digital stories, kurzweil, nanotechnology, singularity, visualizationThe first of these is an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 17, 2010. The article discusses how we expose our identities and characteristics on social networking sites, how that information can be aggregated and interpreted, and reiterates the maxim that essentially nothing is private on the Internet. The second is [...]
Tagged dictatorship, Internet, privacy, social mediaVideo: Robots that make things! (And how sharing is the best way to run a business and your life.) | opensource.com “A few folks from Red Hat’s video team had the opportunity last summer to attend the first Open Video Conference in New York. We met some inspiring, open minded, and highly motived people and [...]
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Social Networking and About the Web Changing Us
A few tags for my discussion in the Internet class I’ve been teaching this summer, CPSC 105 The Internet: Technology, Issues, & Information. NCFY : : Publications : :The Exchange Building Communities through Online Social Networking Somethings for us to consider USATODAY.com – Video websites pop up, invite postings Article from 2005 discussing the beginnings [...]
Tagged carr, shirky, social networking, video, webInteresting Web Sites
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