http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/august07 Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2336 Miss New Jersey, Amy Polumbo, spoke to freshmen at Wagner College about the dangers of putting too much personal information on the Internet. Many students tend to post private information and pictures on their MySpace and Facebook pages, then express shock when somebody finds them online. katiebda Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:46:51 +0000 privacy august07 story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2329 Jhannet Sejas, a sophomore at Marymount University who made news last month after she was arrested for filming a segment of Transformers in a movie theater, has pleaded guilty to violating Virginia law by unlawfully recording a motion picture, according to Wired. Her arrest was unusual and outraged digital-rights activists since Ms. Sejas acknowledged filming 20 seconds of the movie only to get her younger brother psyched about the film. katiebda Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:14:27 +0000 ownership august07 story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/television/21vide.html?ex=1345348800 The opinion in the first major video game case was written in 2001 by Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In blocking an Indianapolis ordinance that would have regulated public game arcades, he wrote that exposure to imaginary violence — whether in “The Odyssey,” “War and Peace” or Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 — can play an important role in the development of a child’s moral, social and political outlook. katiebda Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:37:53 +0000 games law participation august07 http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/15-09/ff_internetlies?currentPage=1 A middle-aged man and woman, both married, start an online romance posing as teenagers. A love triangle develops and the third man is murdered. "How could a mother like that, I asked her, hijack her daughter's identity to seduce strangers? Her answers, unsatisfactory as they are, suggest a profound capacity for self-deception." katiebda Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:52:05 +0000 deception identity story august07 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2319 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. katiebda Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:35:19 +0000 deception identity second life august07 participation research trust http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2313 Asking if Wikipedia is becoming a hub for propaganda, Canada’s Globe and Mail points out that an online database has shown 11,000 edits to the encyclopedia made from government computers. Tracking edits made by companies and governments has become a popular pastime this week, since grad student Virgil Griffith created the database, called Wikiscanner. katiebda Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:06:16 +0000 transparency wikipedia august07 story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2306 Sophos created a profile for a fake Facebook user named Freddi Staur (that’s “ID Fraudster,” anagrammed) and sent friend requests to 200 other randomly chosen Facebookers. In the end, 87 people made Freddi a friend, and nearly all of them shared some personal information — like their e-mail addresses or dates of birth — with the stranger. katiebda Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:46:52 +0000 august07 privacy story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2302 When word spread last year that Congressional staff members were feverishly editing their bosses’ Wikipedia entries, Virgil Griffith asked himself: How many company spokesmen & campus officials were doing the same thing? Griffith created Wikipedia Scanner, a searchable database that links anonymous Wikipedia edits with the businesses and organizations from which those markups came. katiebda Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:43:02 +0000 august07 transparency credibility wikipedia http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2297 This year, due to the opening up of FB, calls from parents complaining about their children's future roommates are coming all too frequently. In many instances, parents want their children separated from roommates whose profiles show them drinking or partying. However, according to one housing official, parents’ chief concerns are potential roommates’ race, religion, and sexual orientation. katiebda Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:25:38 +0000 august07 participation facebook audience privacy http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=165 Blogging offers then the type of solution to the private/public dichotomy that Arendt dreads. It does not release the passion of private life into the public, but deprives the private of its fascination and invests the public with a continuous repetition of identical personal experiences. katiebda Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:52:46 +0000 kdqpp august07 identity blogging commentary privacy http://select.nytimes.com/iht/2007/08/08/opinion/IHT-08edcohen.1.html? Media Predict amounts to a virtual stock market for manuscripts, television pilots, rock bands and the like. Traders with the equivalent of $5,000 in fantasy cash buy shares in the material they believe in. Whatever rises on this prediction market ought in theory to be the things entertainment moguls should buy and back. katiebda Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:43:10 +0000 august07 commentary participation collective intelligence http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/college/coll09second.html?pagewanted=3 The two, who are married to other people in real life, met in a Second Life club, hit it off and were married six weeks later in a Second Life ceremony — a more or less common occurrence (as are Second Life marital spats and Second Life divorce) that often occurs with the knowledge and consent of real-life spouses. katiebda Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:50:03 +0000 august07 second life identity story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2287 In a Podcast with The Chronicle, Tom Boellstorff, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine, talks about, among other things, how people bond and change genders in Second Life. Mr. Boellstorff spent two-and-a-half years exploring the culture of the virtual world through a digital character he created named Tom Bukowski. katiebda Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:51:07 +0000 august07 identity research second life http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/07/game_school If approved, the Game School will become a NYC public school in 2009. Executive Director of the Gamelab Institute of Play, Katie Salen, and other planners are looking at how games naturally engage players & teach them new skills, and hope to apply those principles to create kids who not only ace their SATs, but are also well suited for the 21st century. katiebda Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:06:30 +0000 august07 intervention play http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/hicss07.pdf Academic paper about LiveJournal katiebda Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:50:39 +0000 august07 livejournal kdqpp research