Rochelle Gurstein, author of "The Repeal of Reticence," a book about the erosion of privacy in the US, said the blogs seem to reflect an "unprecedented change" in teenagers' sense of modesty. Many young bloggers say they don't think people other than friends are reading their journals. Some contend that the Internet is a safer place for their inner thoughts than a book that can be found by parents
Demos is a British think tank for democracy. They released a report on 1/11/07 called Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. They used interviews, focus groups, & youth diaries to collect data on how youth are using NDM. They identified different "types" of digital media users: Digital Pioneers, Creative Producers, Everyday Communicators, and Information Gatherers.
This blog entry argues that we react so intensely against plagiarism for 2 primary reasons: 1) we value originality & creativity (that's why we tolerate Shakespeare's creative "copying") 2) we value a just distribution of labor (it's not fair for someone to get credit for someone else's hard work). Other considerations: our market economy values individualism; Americans value myth of hard work.
This article provides a nice summary of the origins & political history of net neutrality.
Jeff Jarvis: "Young people just have a very very different view of privacy than people in my generation…The truth is, on the Internet, if you don’t reveal some of yourself, you won’t find friends." The bottom line is that our cultural experience of privacy is changing, whether we like it or not. And I think it’s one of the biggest disconnects we’re experiencing with our students these days.
Includes a good story about a Yale student whose video resume was posted on the Internet without his knowledge or consent.
There's a not-so-highlighted number in the Pew report that i find very interesting though. 84% of teens have posted messages to a friend's profile or page. This practice may signal something very interesting. Teens are primarily writing "private" messages to each other through this feature. By speaking in the witness of others, it's a lot harder to spread hearsay (or fabricated IM messages).
espinthebottle.com is a flirting site for teenagers that vets its participants’ information before matching kids up, to keep the fun clean and safe. So far, the site has attracted more than 3.8 million “hotties” (its term).
Henry posts his own and others' (e.g. danah boyd) responses to Clay Shirky's critique of Second Life. Henry bills himself the optimist & Clay the cynic when it comes to SL & virtual worlds.
I have never believed that SL is going to be a mass movement in any meaningful sense of the term. SL interests me as a particular model of participatory culture. SL embodies a new mixed media ecology in which institutions with very different levels of power, wealth, and influence co-exist in a shared virtual space creating more equivalence in terms of their relationship to the media landscape.
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Rochelle Gurstein, author of "The Repeal of Reticence," a book about the erosion of privacy in the US, said the blogs seem to reflect an "unprecedented change" in teenagers' sense of modesty. Many young bloggers say they don't think people other than friends are reading their journals. Some contend that the Internet is a safer place for their inner thoughts than a book that can be found by parents
Demos is a British think tank for democracy. They released a report on 1/11/07 called Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. They used interviews, focus groups, & youth diaries to collect data on how youth are using NDM. They identified different "types" of digital media users: Digital Pioneers, Creative Producers, Everyday Communicators, and Information Gatherers.
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