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The Onion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_onion Many of you may know about The Onion. It is a satirical newspaper that mocks current events. The Onion however does it in an outrageous, multi-faceted way. They engage readers through print, online articles, and even a 24 hour online broadcast that seems so real, other countries have accidentally taken stories and [...]

Times today are significantly different then they were just a few years ago. The internet since its nascence has been growing, expanding, and involving. Our generation is one of the first to have almost unlimited access to the world wide web. I believe that the advance of mobile technology is significant to how well informed [...]

The National Health Service in the United Kingdom recently spent £25,000 in an advertising campaign called “Cocktales.” This campaign created two viral videos placed on YouTube with the goal of reducing teenage and young adult binge drinking. Their catch phrase, “Has too much alcohol ever ruined your night” appears at the end of each video. [...]

Bruns describes how we have changed as a society from an industrial economy, to an information economy, and currently a networked information economy. This new networked information economy has two very important aspects that allow its functionality: it is decentralized, and it is collaborative. In this new economy users, who have positive impacts on the [...]

This document, The Declaration of Principles, which was created at the World Summit on Information Technologies is a broad-reaching, enthusiastic proclamation for the betterment of the world through the advancement of technological abilities. Their goals are, “to harness the potential of information and communication technology to promote the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, namely [...]

Twitter is a tool that should be topic restricted to only allow commenting on unimportant pop culture happenings, as it is unable to be a serious forum for discussion. Rated: from 2 votes

Who the hell is Justin Bieber? Apparently he is a 16 year old Canadian pop/R&B singer who was discovered on YouTube and whos popularity has been growing exponentially. He is plastered all over Twitter as one of the most tweeted subjects. As I scrolled through the numerous tweets about Bieber it became apparently obvious who [...]

The debate over participatory media as outlined by Lanier and Fake seems to have two contrasting viewpoints. One side, Lanier, argues that digital collectivism produces dull, lifeless work. Fake summarizes Lanier’s argument saying, “The self-proclaimed ‘father of VR‘ believes that people who don’t get credit or compensation for their work are lesser, humiliated beings without [...]

The new media company that I am interested in is Research In Motion (RIM). RIM Is a Canadian company that produces the hardware and software for Blackberry Smartphones. This software for the worldwide mobile communications market, allows the BlackBerry smartphone to provide mobile access to email, applications, media and the Internet. It was founded in [...]

Hello class, My name is David Spodek. I am a senior at Cornell University majoring in Industrial and Labor Relations. I was born and raised on Long Island. My two passions in life are cars and music. I modify cars and do amateur autocross racing. Ever since I was little I loved cars, and my [...]