Video-game players often hold radically different views on what constitutes cheating. Today's digital fare represents the first time we've argued about the precise meaning of cheating.
Lawrence Lessig is doing a series of 6 presentations on what Congress should do about Internet Policy. We may be most interested in looking at Copyright: Remix Culture, Network Neutrality, and Harmful to Minors Material.
Males stand further away when talking to other males in the virtual world of Second Life and are less likely to keep eye contact, according to a study that shows at least one aspect of human behavior carries over into the virtual realm. The results indciate that interaction in virtual environments are governed by the same social norms as social interactions in the physical world.
This blog post provides links to Henry's "best of" posts about intellectual property, participatory culture, education, the moral panic, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Second Life.
The Valentine's Day breakup of two North Carolina college students that featured singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade was a hoax after all.Ryan Burke confessed Monday that the confrontation, which became an instant hit on YouTube.com, was all a stunt to show the power of Internet communities and the amount of money that companies make from them. The pair weren't even dating.
This article is filled with stories of people cheating reputation rating systems to earn trust. It also describes Paul Resnick's research on the role of online rating systems in building trust. Resnick seems to argue for a structural approach to curbing the cheating - create powerful algorithms to force people to be trustworthy.
We fail to Protect The Children when we react with fear & hate to the challenges inherent to interactive media, rather than teaching kids to think critically about what they encounter. We do students a disservice when we provide them with teachers who aren't equipped with the skills to incorporate computers and the internet into education.
Essjay was a trusted, credible Wikipedia editor/contributor, but it turns out that he fabricated his identity. He's not really a tenured professor but a 24 year-old who has never taught a class before. This raises questions of identity, credibility, transparency on open source collaborations such as Wikipedia.
A follow up article about the disgraced Wikipedia administrator named Essjay. He presented himself as a tenured professor when he was really a 20 something with a BA. His contributions to the Wikipedia community were of high quality
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Video-game players often hold radically different views on what constitutes cheating. Today's digital fare represents the first time we've argued about the precise meaning of cheating.
This blog post provides links to Henry's "best of" posts about intellectual property, participatory culture, education, the moral panic, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Second Life.
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