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“The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy,” released by American University’s Center for Social Media, is based on interviews that university researchers conducted with more than 60 media-literacy educators. Those interviews paint a fairly grim portrait of teachers, unsure about the specifics of fair-use doctrine, cowed into avoiding perfectly valid uses of copyrighted material. -
1voteA survey of people’s online communication habits reveals that college students use social-networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, primarily to keep up with their friends.
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1voteAfter poring over the Dutch and French versions of Wikipedia, the Dartmouth team concluded that anonymous “good Samaritans” are actually among the site’s most valuable editors.
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2voteReference list compiled by danah boyd
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1voteIt’s already been well-documented that most of Facebook’s college clientele — and, indeed, many of the site’s off-campus users — don’t bother changing their privacy settings. According to a recent Sophos survey, three out of four people on Facebook’s London network have left their profiles open to all comers.
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1voteIn 1994, Justin Hall (b. 1974 in Chicago), now an American freelance journalist, then a Swarthmore College student, started a web-based diary called Justin's Links from the Underground, which offered link highlighting (not unlike BoingBoing) and excentric, journaling (e.g., his exploration of "sexuality as a sacred place"). This web-based diary is often cited as the first weblog.
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