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Lifecasting: The Age of Narcissism, Exhibitionism blooms
Lifecasting comes naturally to today’s youths, who are used to living their lives in public, posting details of every hookup and breakup on their Facebook or MySpace pages. Anyone with a laptop,… more →
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Lifecasting: The Age of Narcissism, Exhibitionism blooms
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Lifecasting comes naturally to today’s youths, who are used to living their lives in public, p … more →
'Social' porn sites and the privacy intrusions we make on each other
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: As sites like YouPorn and PornoTube that mesh community aspects of social networking with completely … more →
Forgive me Tim Berners-Lee, it's been two hours since my last post
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Links and commentary from MetaFilter … more →
Digital Divide evolving from a question of access, to one of social skills
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Henry Jenkins, director of the media studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, s … more →
War Games software, for realzies
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Darpa, the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, is looking to design a software suite that predict … more →
Google Maps help do-gooders
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Google has launched an initiative to help charities and other nonprofit groups use maps and satellit … more →
Emotional Recognition to be used first for....drumroll...marketing!
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: A computer program that reads human expressions may bring an about-face in marketing….The soft … more →
Mapping applications used by activists to raise awareness
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Three-dimensional maps from Google Earth are giving nonprofits new tools in their efforts to raise a … more →
Me, MySpace and I: Teens don't use new media, they live it
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: They don’t use technology, it simply is. It’s the main focus of their life. See, that … more →
'Better' Avatars may result in surreptitious communications
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Donath notes that even seemingly simple human behaviors are accompanied by collections of body langu … more →
Choice of social media reflects class divide...II
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. T … more →
Choice of social media reflects class divide
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: A six-month research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teen … more →
MySpace and schools go together like oil and water
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Some schools ban social networks for wasting classroom time or to protect students from weirdos. But … more →
Will torrent networks be required to narc on their users?
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Two weeks ago, a judge ruled that BitTorrent search engine Torrentspy was required to enable server … more →
New Media is indulgent, counterproducive and often just silly
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: The AMA recently suggested that perhaps gaming addiction should be considered as a sub-category of i … more →
Games, why we play them, love them, hate them and increasingly incorporate them into our lives
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: From the simple MUDs of a decade ago to the addictive EverQuest, massively multiplayer online gaming … more →
Political expression inside Second Life: protests, digital graffiti and griefing
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: “There’s a rationale for it to the extent that in this day and age, the powers that be h … more →
Virtual property, real disputes
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whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: This case centers on virtual property maintained in a virtual world on the Internet. The plaintiff c … more →
The heretical download
whatsnewmedia wrote 2 years ago: Disgruntled Italian Catholics are increasingly turning to the internet to leave the Church by gettin … more →
