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NEW MEDIA : EXPLORING THE TECHNOLOGICAL SHIFT IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

The exihibition "A trip to the moon" that will be presented at the Bonniers Museum in Stockholm (Sweden) next spring is raising questions about the development of new communication technologies such as social media, mobile phones, i-pads etc...and their impact on the film industry and traditional media like television.

New cultural phenomena and social behaviour emerges with the spreading of Internet and social media related technologies. They are not only…

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Added by Jasmin Farand on January 5, 2012 at 8:39pm — No Comments

Social Networking at the Tipping Point - Social Networking 2.?

With the release of the movie "The Social Network" and all of the media coverage of this as well as the tragic suicide of the Rutgers' University student Tyler Clementi, social networking has come to a tipping point.

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Added by Henry Berry on October 4, 2010 at 9:46am — No Comments

Grades don't drop for college Facebook fiends

Students who use social networking sites don't seem to suffer academically, according to research out of Northwestern University. In a recent paper titled "Predictors and consequences of differentiated practices on social network sites," researchers found that heavy use of sites like Facebook and MySpace doesn't affect college students' grade point averages. In fact, it's the usual suspects such as gender, ethnic background, and parental education that appear to have more of a determining… Continue

Added by Managing Editor on August 7, 2010 at 8:26am — No Comments

Kids, Parents, and Technology: An Unexplored Space

After over a decade of increasing technology use by youth and parents, there has been no systematic effort to bring a comprehensive and practical tools to parents (see Pew and Kaiser Foundation studies.) While new devices and applications arrive in our homes in increasing speed, parents are still at a loss about organizing the mostly chaotic media lives of kids (see www.mydigitalfamily.org).

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Added by dr. eitan schwarz on June 6, 2010 at 9:14pm — 4 Comments

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video - Center For Social Media

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INTRODUCTION

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This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on February 3, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on December 19, 2009 at 4:13pm — No Comments

Augmented Social Cognition: Ed Chi

A lecture by Ed Chi for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Augmented Social Cognition is trying to understand the enhancement of a group of people's ability to remember, think, and reason. This has been taking in the form of many Web 2.0 systems like social networking sites, social tagging systems, blogs, and Wikis.

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Added by Reid Cornwell on December 14, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments