Describes the incident of SVMaria - a girl from Chile who allegedly faked a miscarriage and other details of her life, set up a wish list when she was in the "fake" hospital, and maintained a number of fake LJ user accounts (sock puppets) who reported about her misfortunes and asked for gifts from the LJ community.
Critics have mocked the banality of most tweets & questioned whether we really need such an assault upon our powers of concentration. But right now, it’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet. I also strongly disliked the radical self-revelation of Twitter. I wasn’t sure that it was good for my intimate circle to know so much about my daily rounds, or healthy for me to tell them.
In my graduate proseminar on media theory and methods, I spend a great deal of time getting students to think about how they can draw on their own personal experiences and interactions with media to inform their scholarship.
Random Shapes features the best teen blogs on the web in an attempt to encourage good blogging among teens. Random Shapes is only open to teens, who must apply to participate in the community. The focus is on developing teens' blogging skills and creating a sense of community.
With people spending so much time connecting in the virtual world, their online identities are becoming as important as their offline ones. "As silly as it may sound, your avatar essentially reflects you or who you would like to be," said Krista Callahan. For some people, their avatars are simply an extension of their offline selves. For others, they are pure fantasy, said Anastasia Goodstein.
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed, peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersecting aspects of current and past entertainment media. The journal is published by the Cinema Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.
Graduate and undergraduate students will present their work at a day-long conference investigating identity, identification, privacy and anonymity through various disciplinary lenses. Participants will be selected through a fully peer-reviewed process and presentations from students from around the world are anticipated.
The properties of networked publics - primarily persistence - extend the reach of relationship performances. If posted on a MySpace profile, verbalized adoration can be read by all of that person's friends... By breaking up through MySpace comments, the heartbreaker is attempting to assert their view for everyone else to see so that they cannot be accused of saying something else in private.
Not only do the new social networking sites facilitate and widely disseminate teenage indiscretions, they help seal them in Internet amber. Ill-advised Internet postings are like a bad tattoo with little hope of laser removal. The article also discusses predators, cyber-bullying, and the unintended, high-stakes audiences who may view teens' MySpace pages.
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Describes the incident of SVMaria - a girl from Chile who allegedly faked a miscarriage and other details of her life, set up a wish list when she was in the "fake" hospital, and maintained a number of fake LJ user accounts (sock puppets) who reported about her misfortunes and asked for gifts from the LJ community.
The properties of networked publics - primarily persistence - extend the reach of relationship performances. If posted on a MySpace profile, verbalized adoration can be read by all of that person's friends... By breaking up through MySpace comments, the heartbreaker is attempting to assert their view for everyone else to see so that they cannot be accused of saying something else in private.
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