NYTimes Article: Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep things Offline

Here's an interesting article on young adults and their newfound (or perhaps not so newfound) concerns with online privacy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/fashion/09privacy.html?src=me&ref=general

researchers are interested in the virtual world

Happened to see an article. Looks like virtual world has become (or has been?) a big thing in academia...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/sociologists-invade-world-of-warcraft-and-see-humanitys-future.ars

Church recruits young priests via Facebook

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36848721/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Twitter Archive

I have been following the Library of Congress's acquisition of Twitter Archive and Google's introduction to real-time search of Twitter archive.

Surprisingly almost no one talks about its social implications, especially in terms of the issue of public/private distinction. Or, when it is discussed, people simply define the private/public issue here in "traditional" ways---access, identity, and content--- without taking into account the changing new media environment.

After you guys learned about this issue in this class, I hope you guys think about this issue differently.Remember, the "context"--both appropriateness and flow of information is important, and the "context" is getting messed up in new technologies including Twitter. Will be fun to observe how people "appropriate" their behavior.

Facebook ads work

Nielsen's study on the effectiveness of Facebook, especially "becoming a fan" of a brand.
So, your fan page should work!

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143381

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