Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)
Citation: boyd, danah and Henry Jenkins. 2006. "MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)." MIT Tech Talk. May 26. http://www.danah.org/papers/MySpaceDOPA.html
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The memo strongly discouraged teachers from using social-networking web sites such as MySpace and Facebook to create personal profiles or communicate with students.
Inside many schools across the country, MySpace.com is a dirty word. But does that have to be the case for all social networking Web sites?
Many administrators have chosen to block access to MySpace, the Internet’s most popular social networking site, judging its content to be inappropriate for schools.
Now, as more social networking tools like blogs and wikis are developed for classroom use, technology directors face a difficult dilemma: how to balance the educational benefits of these new tools with concerns about student privacy and safety.
Darlington County School District held a free seminar Monday night on social networking sites such as Myspace.com and Facebook. com, for parents to learn more about the sites their children are visiting.
“We hope to establish a dialogue with parents,” said Diane Sigmon, director of technology in Darlington County School District. “These things (Web sites) are out there. We’ve got to help them (chi
Now, it's official: a release from MySpace has confirmed that Quarterlife will debut on its MySpaceTV platform on November 11. A project of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who created the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething in addition to Blood Diamond, the new Web show will follow the lives of six people in their 20s and "chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age as a part of the digital generation."
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Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) Citation: boyd, danah and Henry Jenkins. 2006. "MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)." MIT Tech Talk. May 26. http://www.danah.org/papers/MySpaceDOPA.html
The memo strongly discouraged teachers from using social-networking web sites such as MySpace and Facebook to create personal profiles or communicate with students.
Darlington County School District held a free seminar Monday night on social networking sites such as Myspace.com and Facebook. com, for parents to learn more about the sites their children are visiting. “We hope to establish a dialogue with parents,” said Diane Sigmon, director of technology in Darlington County School District. “These things (Web sites) are out there. We’ve got to help them (chi
Now, it's official: a release from MySpace has confirmed that Quarterlife will debut on its MySpaceTV platform on November 11. A project of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who created the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething in addition to Blood Diamond, the new Web show will follow the lives of six people in their 20s and "chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age as a part of the digital generation."
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