Monthly Archives: September 2012

Teen Social Network Affair

Danah Boyd is the author of the article Why Youth (Heart) Socal Network Sites: The Role of the Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life. In the article she discusses why young people in particular seem to be infatuated with social … Continue reading

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Digital Vertigo

Andrew Keen is the author of Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us, a book where like the title, he talks about how online social networks are breaking up society, which today is not … Continue reading

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Remix

Remix is a book written by Lawrence Leesig which discusses the effects of the internet. He writes about how the copyright laws of today seem outdated and unfit to deal with the way the internet changes culture and creativity. He … Continue reading

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Understanding Cybercultures

Reading Cyberbultures discusses the many ways internet culture mirrors life outside the digital world. It covers topics from globalization to race and gender and also the gap between those who have access to the digital world known as the digital … Continue reading

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Hello Movies

I chose to visit the blog of Aaron Weiss which features movie and film reviews. The home screen of the blog features movies and films in order of how recenlty they were released, although there are still a number of … Continue reading

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