http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/katiebda/dm2 Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901346.html?wpisrc=newsletter The ease of being in touch has created a phenomenon that Rainie calls "love taps," in which couples exchange hellos and touch base with a regularity that did not exist 10 years ago...another family phenomenon: huddling around a screen to watch YouTube videos together or other Internet entertainment, a kind of "virtual hearth," Rainie said. katiebda Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:47:27 +0000 october08 dm2 research family http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3327&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Residents of Westchester, the neighborhood surrounding Loyola Marymount University, in Los Angeles, say microblogging services like Twitter are not only allowing students to find out where their classmates are partying, but also when the gatherings are about to be shut down by the police. katiebda Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:45:35 +0000 september08 dm2 participation story http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/juicycampus-expands-its-libelous-gossip-machine/ JuicyCampus, the controversial site that lets students post totally anonymous (and often malicious) comments about their college classmates, has launched a new version of its site and opened support to over 185 new campuses, with 500 expected by the end of the month. JuicyCampus is essentially a public, anonymous bulletin board that encourages users to gossip about eachother, often referring to their targets by their full names. katiebda Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:29:51 +0000 september08 dm2 participation story http://ypulse.com/archives/2008/04/online_relation.php 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." katiebda Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:34:54 +0000 august08 dm2 privacy story participation http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ref=technology 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. katiebda Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:50:18 +0000 august08 dm2 participation story http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93346096 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. katiebda Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:58:27 +0000 august08 participation groups story dm2 http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/c/6/topics.asp How the Internet affects the groups where we live and work, including how they grow and change, their social dynamics, and the activities we do there. katiebda Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:26:36 +0000 dm2 research august08 http://www.frankwbaker.com/mediause.htm katiebda Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:47:03 +0000 august08 research dm2 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/world/asia/02china.html 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. katiebda Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:21:30 +0000 august08 story dm2 participation http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/25513119.html Rheingold said that even if online friends don't become best friends, there's a benefit to building a "portfolio of weak ties." When you experience something traumatic, he explained, like losing your home, you're most likely to seek shelter from one of your closest friends or relatives. But when you lose a job or are seeking a mate, a sizable network of weak ties can come to the rescue. katiebda Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:45:03 +0000 july08 dm2 friends http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age. Some literacy experts say that reading itself should be redefined. Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem. katiebda Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:19:51 +0000 july08 dm2 research literacy http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/06/17/markers_of_stat.html ...the vast majority of youth that we studied used networked technologies to reinforce more traditional markers of status and hierarchy. While there are certainly youth who engage in a variety of geeky practices, the vast majority of youth use tools like MySpace, Facebook, instant messaging, and mobile phones to socialize with peers from school, church, and activities. katiebda Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:30:29 +0000 dm2 research http://cct.edc.org/index.asp katiebda Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:23:36 +0000 dm2 research