Nicole Ellison has a good post on the uses of Facebook as identity affordance over time, and puts very nicely the sentiment that, this expanded social network of people from one’s history as a supportive presence that enables individuals to stretch, knowing that they have links to their past should they need them. Ongoing research [...]
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Facebook and Who We Want to Be
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Do Something Good
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob Walker has a recent column in Slate with a provocative suggestion: Why do agencies need to go find a client that has ideas about social or environmental responsibility? Don’t the smart folks at the agencies have any such ideas of their own? Well, then, pick one, forget about finding a client, and go out [...]
American Journalism 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged journalism on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in time for the New Year comes this heartbreaking account of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s impending demise: Then, on Friday, the e-mail message from Oglesby. It was a body-less e-mail, the only text being that foreboding subject line: “Please join me in the newsroom for a few minutes for an announcement.” People in both newsrooms [...]
Gamers
Posted in research, Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As Fred noted, there is a new, excellent-as-always report out from the Pew Internet & American Life Project – “Teens, Video Games, and Civics.” [PDF] To get it out of the way up top – no, not really, there’s not much positive correlation in terms of civics and game-playing. Nor negative. This is in part [...]
Media Lab!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to join the rest of the Berkman summer interns on a tour of MIT Media Lab, and hang out with some of the Scratch team. It’s pretty hard not to be a total fanboy about this place (my heavily-laden bag from MIT Press’ bookstore [{amazing} clearance rack!] being an [...]
Google Book Search, Orphan Works and the Public Domain
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Google Book Search has inspired passionate feelings and responses from many people since Google announced the project. Some, like Larry Lessig, view its scanning and indexing of copyrighted books as a legitimate activity under Fair Use. Others, like Siva Vaidhyanathan, are more skeptical of Google Book Search (and in Siva’s case, Google generally). Either way, [...]
Social Contexts and Solidarity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged identity on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Clay Shirky, in discussing his new book at TPM Café, concludes with the following question(s): I can imagine that however unjust it may be to be relegate to the status of a despised cubicle rat, it’s gotta be worse to be a d.c.r. who doesn’t kick ass at WoW. The question it leaves me with [...]
Technology
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jan Chipchase: If technology is everything that was invented after you were born, then technologies that have been superseded are historical artifacts. Except here in this time warp of a courtyard – where the ancient typewriter continues to be nothing less than a computer with a built in printer and an unlimited power supply. Oh, [...]
Moments of Connection
Posted in identity, Uncategorized on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the following passage from this paper brought me back to the lobby of a hostel in Thessaloniki : The Finnish network in Figure 7 is qualitatively different. It continues the trend observed in the Portuguese network in that it is smaller and looser, but unlike the previous networks, it lacks an apparent center. Rather, [...]
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