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Vikki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune
Sep 20, 2009
A beauty school student thought he was offering classmates a place to vent when he created a Facebook page mocking teachers and classes.
"Don't be afraid to post comments on whats going on, this is yor voice too. All for one and one for all right?...
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Vincent Rossmeier, Salon.com
Sep 19, 2009
[From an interview with Dennis Baron, author of "A Better Pencil".]
... Computer socialization -- is this putting an end to face-to-face human interaction? Or does it let us expand our social networks when face-to-face communication is not possibl...
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Suzanne Ma, Associated Press
Sep 17, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins.
Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames on the fir...
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Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica
Sep 14, 2009
So is there a case for seeing two-way gaming as central to a definition of broadband? The cooperation/leadership argument may not be the strongest point, at least not if the implication is that games make gamers more helpful to society. A Pew Interne...
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Karen Travers, ABC News
Sep 14, 2009
Nearly 40 percent of young adults have an online social networking profile and 60 percent of all teenagers do, according to research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Facebook is the world's largest online social network with more than...
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Steven Davy, PBS MediaShift
Sep 3, 2009
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that for the first time a majority (55 percent) of voting-age adults engaged with politics online during the 2008 presidential election.
"In each consecutive, comparable election season sinc...
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Kevin Whitelaw, NPR
Sep 2, 2009
Some of the change is cultural. Users have been flocking to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, where they voluntarily share all kinds of details about their lives.
In some ways, the meteoric success of these sites could be a reacti...
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BBC News
Sep 2, 2009
US civic engagement remains in the hands of the middle-class despite hopes that the internet would democratise political involvement.
Those are the findings of a report from the Pew Internet Project.
Online political engagement such as contacti...
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Nicole Allan, The Atlantic
Sep 1, 2009
In 2004, Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s techie campaign manager, declared that “the Internet is the most democratizing innovation we’ve ever seen—more so even than the printing press.” Five years later, after ...
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Aliya Sternstein, NextGov.com
Sep 1, 2009
Wealthy and well-educated Americans dominate online civic activities, just as they have long dominated traditional civic involvement, according to a study released on Tuesday by Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. [...]
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