I know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no."
When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN. And a study this year from the center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that “ ‘The Daily Show’ is clearly impacting American dialogue” and “getting people to think critically about the public square.”
A growing number of professors are experimenting with Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking tools for their courses, but some students greet an invitation to join professors’ personal networks with horror, seeing faculty members as intruders in their private online spaces. Recognizing that, some professors have coined the term “creepy treehouse” to describe technological innovations by faculty members that make students’ skin crawl.
The Trolls Among Us: Weev (not, of course, his real name) is part of a growing Internet subculture with a fluid morality and a disdain for pretty much everyone else online.
Web designer Sean Tevis has raised more than $96,000 from nearly 6,000 people — most of whom aren?t from Kansas — in his bid to unseat Kansas state Rep. Arlen Siegfried.
Yet even as the police tightened security before the Games, the power of new information technologies to chip away at the official line was still on display. In a poor county in Guizhou Province in the south, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances, and rumors of police malfeasance and a cover-up spread widely on the Internet, prompting public protests to demand a new investigation.
In 1996, Congress enacted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides immunity from legal liability for messages posted by anyone other than the operator or proprietor of a site or service. The presence of such a barrier goes far to explain why victims are frustrated, as most poignantly illustrated by Juicy Campus, a campus-gossip Web site.
Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem. But with YouTube students have discovered a new avenue for actually promoting such fraud. Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the University of California at Irvine, notes that there’s now a genre of videos that combine cheating advice with a “do-it-yourself aesthetic.” She flagged one of them Wednesday on her blog. It shows a student using a scanner and photo-editing software to make a cheat sheet on a Coke bottle.
Publishers see Web sites like Textbook Torrents, which offer free downloads of textbooks without authorization, as part of a growing problem of piracy that could potentially threaten their industry. But the founder of Textbook Torrents calls his actions “civil disobedience” against “the monopolistic business practices” of textbook publishers.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a Connecticut high-school student could be barred from running for student government after posting a blog entry calling a school official a “douchebag” and encouraging other students to write or call the official to annoy her, the Hartford Courant reports.
RSS for user "katiebda: story"
I know a girl who asked a boy to be her boyfriend via Facebook before they had even discussed the matter face-to-face. It was Gen Y's version of the omnipresent grade school love letter that read: "I like you. Do you like me? Check yes or no."
discuss this
email this
When an Edtags member saves something that piques your interest,
click their photo or username to read their profile.