As the ‘Friction-Less’ Web Grows, Friction Against It Does Too
. . . That story you just read about Kate Winslet being photoshopped? Just by reading it, you told every one of your 700 Facebook friends that you read it. Was it really something you wanted to share? On the friction-less web, that may no longer be your decision. And that is what has critics worried . . .
Read more at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/04/as-the-friction-less-web-grows-friction-against-it-does-too116.htm
In this case Twitter, and apparently including here in the States: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/04/governments-increasingly-targeting-twitter-users-for-expressing-their-opinion102.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
And some responses to that talk: http://www.ted.com/conversations/10527/technology_doesn_t_create_lone.html
(CNN) — For years now, companies have been combing through Twitter postings, trying to glean any information that may help them improve their products and services.
But with more than 250 million tweets sent every day, it would take an enormous staff to analyze the data.
That task gave rise to hundreds of social media-monitoring companies, but they were still limited to the tweets that could be accessed by individual users.
Twitter, however, has decided to make it easier for these companies to mine billions of messages for valuable marketing data. The company will open its archives and sell its old tweets.
Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/tech/social-media/twitter-selling-tweets/index.html
IMPORTANT: Please note that not all the articles you might find linked to this class website are suitable as sources for your final projects. I often post breaking news, and the sources are often blogs. You need to use valid sources as listed on the final project assignment page. Blogs are rarely valid sources.
“Want to learn more about what Google knows about you?
Visit Google Dashboard to see what data is associated with your Google Account.
Check out Google’s Ad Preferences Manager to view the interests and demographic information Google has associated with you, or to opt out of targeted advertising.
Clear, monitor, or control the data Google collects information about your browsing history on Web History, or on YouTube.”
For more information and for active links to where you can actually check this information, read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/google-privacy-policy-changes_n_1310506.html
Since most of you left it to me (and a random number generator) to select your topics for you, here’s what you got:
Diamante: Citizen Journalism
Marcus: Internet Addiction
Hopes: Censorship of New Media Environments
Chelsea: Multitasking
TJ: Net Neutrality (definition and current status of legal battles)
Liz: What is all this technology we live with doing to us?
Marlon: Data mining in online environments
Felix: Videogames (as long as you can find sufficient information on this topic; if not, talk to me about the 2nd topic you suggested)
Pat: Privacy Online: Google’s upcoming changes — what are they and what do they mean to the average user of Google services (google.com, gmail, google+, google reader, Chrome, etc.)
Larry: Digital Divide (current, not the hardware divide of the past)
Kemar: SOPA and PIPA: Whose rights are we protecting?