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The National Institutes of Health and a nonprofit group, Common Sense Media, have another reason for President-elect Barack Obama to keep urging parents to “turn off the TV.”In what researchers call the first report of its kind, a review of 173 studies about the effects of media consumption on children asserts that a strong correlation exists between greater exposure & adverse health outcomes. -
1voteWe are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective again trumps the objective. The past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assemble yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link.
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1voteSince becoming D.C's first schools chancellor in summer '07, Rhee, just 38, has become the most controversial figure in US public education & the standard-bearer for a new type of schools leader nationwide. To Rhee & her fellow reformers, schools can, by themselves, produce successful students. To her opponents, schools aren't enough, however “successful” their students.
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1voteSome grandparent enthusiasts say Web Cams makes the actual separation harder. Others are so sustained by Web cam visits that they visit less in person. No one quite knows what it means to a generation of 2-yr-olds to have slightly pixelated versions of their grandparents as regular fixtures in their lives.
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Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value. -
1voteTrouble is, Martin Eisenstadt [who several reporters/bloggers have attributed the Palin not knowing Africa is a continent story to] doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.
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1voteYou know you're in a universe with a strange moral code when people start complaining that the stolen goods they're in turn stealing weren't stolen properly.
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1voteNational surveys show a steady decrease of trust in almost every area of American life. How do we decide who we can trust? And how good are we at judging the trustworthiness of our politicians? We examine the latest psychological research on trust.
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1voteThe ease of being in touch has created a phenomenon that Rainie calls "love taps," in which couples exchange hellos and touch base with a regularity that did not exist 10 years ago...another family phenomenon: huddling around a screen to watch YouTube videos together or other Internet entertainment, a kind of "virtual hearth," Rainie said.
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1voteMost Americans do not trust media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, citing media bias and misguided focus as their primary concerns, according to a poll released by the Harvard Kennedy School last week.
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