They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one. INTERNET USED TO STOP BULLYING OFFLINE.
The US National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has called on state leaders to work with schools and colleges to ensure that cyber-security, online safety and ethics lessons are integrated into every classroom.
Two researchers at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln have completed a study on “deception in cyberspace,” and they’ve hit on something pretty interesting: In text-based chat rooms, people who are lying generally get anxious. But in virtual worlds that let people create avatars, that edginess seems to fade away. “This suggests that ‘wearing a mask’ in cyberspace may reduce anxiety in deceiving others,” the researchers conclude.
But as games have grown in complexity, so has cheating. Massive online games such as EverQuest and Final Fantasy involve thousands of strangers playing simultaneously, striving to obtain virtual assets that have real-world value (by some estimates several billion dollars' worth). Cheating in these games can be at once harder to identify and more troubling.
A group of Los Angeles high school students recently created a version of Pacman that is based on people that they have interacted with in their Pico-Union and Koreatown neighborhoods. (See the games here). This fact alone - that is, their choice of characters - suggests that the games will be quite different than any games these kids have ever played.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In findings released today, Alloy Media + Marketing’s (NASDAQ: ALOY) 2007 Alloy College Explorer, powered by Harris Interactive, finds the current college class (students 18-30 years of age)heading back to campus in record numbers and with mounting concern surrounding the state of the union and the future of their country.
Dear Cary,
About a year ago I found out that five of the people on my campus, including my freshman roommate and a bunch of people I thought were my friends, had been laughing at me behind my back on Facebook -- which I'd never used -- for months. I found this out when I broke up with my first boyfriend. (He told me under pressure.) Shortly thereafter, I realized that everyone else I'd been friends with at school were his friends, and they stayed his friends. I graduated early, thank God, but it did nothing for me in the end. Some latent psychological issues surfaced right then, and I became every bit that awkward, narrow-minded, ugly and damaged beast they had all seen from the beginning.
Political “dirty tricks” have been around since well before Donald Segretti was on the scene; but now they are emerging in the world of new media. To cite one recent example, there was the Web video that merged Hillary Clinton and “1984.” Is Web video, with its relative anonymity, the new home for dirty tricks?
And yet unlike convicted sex offenders, who are required to stay away from places that cater to children, in this case the police can do next to nothing, because this man, Jack McClellan, who has had Web sites detailing how and where he likes to troll for children, appears to be doing nothing illegal.
But his mere presence in Los Angeles — coupled with Mr. McClellan’s commitment to exhibitionistic blogging about his thoughts on little girls — has set parents on edge. One group of mothers, whose members by and large have never met before, will soon band together in a coffee shop to hammer out plans to push lawmakers in Sacramento to legislate Mr. McClellan out of business.
Examines the cost-benefit differential between computer downloads and the meatspace version, and how some downloaders do it "because they can", not because it's the best available option.
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They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one. INTERNET USED TO STOP BULLYING OFFLINE.
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