Among students with weight problems, 42 percent reported opening spam messages offering weight loss products and nearly 19 percent ordered the product. Among normal weight students, 18 percent said they read the e-mail offers and 5 percent bought the product.
Findings from a forthcoming study by Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger: A positive sign was the indication that adults were playing a positive role in helping kids develop a healthy skepticism about online content. The survey found that 73 percent of youth have received some form of training, and the majority of parents talked to their children about whether to trust information on the web.
While they last, the sites seem to enjoy smashing some sacred journalism traditions, quaint rituals like editing, striving for objectivity, and verifying rumors before publication.
Cody Brown, a 21-year-old film major who founded NYU Local about two years ago, follows the new-media creed that "transparency is the new objectivity." His take on hearsay: It's "way more responsible to publish those rumors," as long as you label them as such. Then you can check reader comments to "see what kicks up."
The researchers expected the Facebook profiles to match an idealized version of the user’s personality. But to their surprise, the online Facebook profile matched the real-world personality test.
Trust is the new black... The great opportunity for news orgs is to constructively demonstrate trustworthy reporting & to visibly do so. The new model for news curation & selection, I feel, will be a balance of prof. editing & collaborative news filtering. In one incarnation, news orgs will look at feeds from highly respected news fans & that will drive stories that are featured more prominently.
Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine created in a garage in 1998 to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. He asks: "Do you trust Google? Do you want to store that information with a company? Will they guard your secrets, or will they share them with advertisers or with someone else?"
Former HGSE student Houman Harouni has some good teacher action research here about how students research and evaluate credibility.
Bloggers have gotten so big that they're about to be regulated -- at least when they accept money or in-kind services from a company whose products they review.
A blogger who reviews a new product -- but leaves out the fact that he or she received payments, high-value gifts or free vacations from the company -- could run afoul of new federal regulations on advertising.
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in official messages and statistics than in first-hand narratives and direct interaction with current students.
Chi's research suggests that the encyclopedia thrives on chaos — that the more freewheeling it is, the better it can attract committed volunteers who keep adding to its corpus. But over the years, as Wikipedia has added layers of control to bolster accuracy & fairness, it's developed a kind of bureaucracy...who wants to participate in a project lousy with bureaucrats?
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Among students with weight problems, 42 percent reported opening spam messages offering weight loss products and nearly 19 percent ordered the product. Among normal weight students, 18 percent said they read the e-mail offers and 5 percent bought the product.
Former HGSE student Houman Harouni has some good teacher action research here about how students research and evaluate credibility.
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