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Social Media: Bridging The Gap [INFOGRAPHIC]
What is the social media digital divide for consumers and business?
by Jason Falls On June 28, 2011
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Jonathan Franzen: Read Some Erving Goffman. Please!
When blurring the line between technology and the self, Kerim Friedman asserts that while you might be narcissistic, your telephone is not.
by Kerim Friedman On June 1, 2011
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Why Social Media Training is Bullshit
The knowledge gap between those not knowing anything about social media and those purporting to be in the know is not as wide as it’s perceived. Why are we letting people get away with paying hundreds of pounds for poorly structured, patronising and corny seminars?
by Joseph Stashko On May 31, 2011
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The Smart-Talk Trap in the Era of Social Media (and What to Do About It)
Our society has a bad habit of rewarding those who talk longer and louder over those who actually take action. How can we avoid the “smart-talk” trap in an age of Twitter and blogging?
by Patrick Meier On May 27, 2011
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Why Twitter’s Oral Culture Irritates Bill Keller (and why this is an important issue)
Zeynep Tufekci takes on Bill Keller of the New York Times and responds to his provocative piece lamenting that new technologies are eroding essential human characteristics.
by Zeynep Tufekci On May 25, 2011
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A manifesto for “augmented journalism”
In a media world run by digital technologies and an active public, do we still need journalists?
by Eric Scherer On May 22, 2011
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Who Will Be the First Facebook President?
Obama-as-president has thus far been a Web 1.0 leader instead of embracing the Web 2.0 ethic of users collaboratively and socially creating content.
by Nathan Jurgenson On April 22, 2011
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The death of email: what is in the afterlife?
Is email outdated? It’s a little more complicated than that, although it appears its better days are in the past.
by Damien Douani On April 15, 2011
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Curatorial journalism – what, why and how (a Masterclass)
What do we do now that we’ve realised that many big events can’t be covered adequately by professional journalists? The answer: curating content from social media and citizen journalism.
by Andy Bull On March 30, 2011
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The UK’s biggest spending cuts protest yet and the anti-kettling app
Veteran protester and activist Tim Hardy, now one of the leaders of the UK Uncut movement, takes OWNI through today’s protest, the tools used by activist and their online relationship status with the police.
by Thomas Seymat On March 26, 2011
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The State Department and Al-Jazeera: same (social media) battle
Taking a hint from Al-Jazeera, the U.S. State Department is trying to inject more social media in its communication. This isn’t easy in a media culture still fixed on television.
by Damien Van Achter On March 17, 2011
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Race, Racism & Social Networking Sites: What the Research Tells Us
Social networking sites are not only a place where people affirm identity and seek community – These sites are also venues where racism regularly appears.
by Jessie On March 11, 2011
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Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality
Digital and physical realities are conceptualised as separate aspects of our on- and off-line selves. Nathan Jurgenson argues this distinction is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
by Nathan Jurgenson On February 28, 2011
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Ould Ireland embraces its first internet election
A new generation of would-be Irish politicians are using their tech-savvy to produce impressive online campaigns including the sort of slick promo videos that were, until recently, the preserve of big parties with big budgets.
by Simon McGeady On February 21, 2011
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“NI PUTES NI SOUMISES”: experiments in online activism
An organization aimed at shattering the law of silence within the Muslim community concerning violence perpetrated against women – Neither whores nor submissives – has struggled with and ultimately failed at the challenge of online activism.
by Lobna Hadji On February 19, 2011
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On revolution
The revolution in Egypt follows a series of similar political revolutions in society, careers, technology – and yes, journalism, which are reforging the way the world works.
by Adam Westbrook On February 15, 2011
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The Twitter Revolution Must Die
It is time to abandon this fantasy, and to realize that although the internet’s original architecture encouraged openness, it is becoming increasingly privatized and centralized.
by Ulises A. Mejias On January 31, 2011
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The Arizona Shooting and Social Media
On Jan. 8, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner allegedly shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others resulting in 6 fatalities. This event has drawn attention to a number of new and important roles social media has come to play in our society, including how information is gathered, changed political rhetoric, and how these sites handle the profiles [...]
by Nathan Jurgenson On January 27, 2011
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At Netroots UK, British progressives plant seeds for future online struggles
In the wake of the largely publicized student demonstrations of November and December against the tuition fee increases, progressives in the United Kingdom are now striving to organize themselves not only on the streets but also online.
by Thomas Seymat On January 14, 2011
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Facebook skeletons can be forgiven (unless you are female)
The stigmatization of digital dirt may be eroding, but eroding for whom?
by Nathan Jurgenson On December 3, 2010
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New Evidence that Slacktivism Matters
It is true that actions in the “shallow end” rarely bring about the desired change, but ignoring these actions and the people who take reflects a misunderstanding of their value.
by Mary C Joyce On December 2, 2010
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Dear Media: Bullying is Never Just “Cyber”
The term “cyberbullying” is frequently used to describe hurtful behaviors occurring via communication technologies. But why distinguish “cyber” bullying from other forms of bullying?
by Nathan Jurgenson On November 16, 2010
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Data’ll Show ‘Em: Foursquare, Gowalla, and the Geosocial
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released new figures on the use of what they are calling “location based” or “geosocial” services
by PJ Rey On November 16, 2010
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Give Us Our Data, Facebook
it’s time for Facebook to voluntarily hand that data over to users, via an API that third party apps can use.
by Michael Arrington On November 10, 2010
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