http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/katiebda/participation Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.4773437/ Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value. katiebda Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:30:05 +0000 november08 research participation dm2 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3425&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Last night the founder of JuicyCampus.com, Matt Ivester, gave a talk at Georgetown University and fielded questions from students who are critical of the site. Students around the country have lambasted the site, saying the anonymous forum is full of personal attacks, false and malicious statements, and hate speech. katiebda Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:50:12 +0000 october08 participation story http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94668692&ft=1&f=1013 The Internet has given unprecedented access to information, but where do we draw the line? A new Web site invites users to share old college exams online. Is it cheating — or democracy? katiebda Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:48 +0000 september08 cheating story participation 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.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://chronicle.com/free/v54/i44/44a02301.htm 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. katiebda Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:56:58 +0000 july08 story legal participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2973&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Over on the blog bavatuesdays, a professor tells of a visit yesterday to the University of Richmond for a lecture that was interrupted by a lockdown following reports of a gunman on the campus. As the audience sat in a dark, locked room awaiting their fates, hoping and praying that tragedy wouldn’t befall another Virginia university, they began communicating and comforting each other via Twitter. katiebda Thu, 08 May 2008 03:20:41 +0000 may08 participation story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2813&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A joke about shooting fellow students, posted to a gossip Web site, led to the arrest of a Colgate University student this month. katiebda Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:42:50 +0000 march08 story participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2790&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A couple of blogs have pointed out that Matt Ivester, creator of the campus gossip blog JuicyCampus.com, has pleaded for a cease-fire among users who have apparently gotten particularly hateful. katiebda Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:44:48 +0000 march08 story participation http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2749&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en In the wake of the shooting at Northern Illinois University, numerous groups commemorating the event have already cropped up on Facebook. katiebda Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:19:27 +0000 february08 facebook participation story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2736&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en The site is called JuicyCampus, and it opened this summer. Some of the most viewed topics today are “Who is the sluttiest girl????,” “Hottest Cornell Sophomores,” and “Biggest Cornell Cokeheads?” Anonymous users of the site have posted their picks in each category and in many other, similar topics, and many of the students who are named on the site are not amused. katiebda Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:39:53 +0000 february08 participation