On my walks through Collegetown over the past couple of days, I have noticed many parallels and connections between the physical space/layout of the area and the social environment this layout creates and the information technologies that have come to be a staple of the location. I believe that it is a true statement when [...]

Twitter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter I find the topic and whole concept of “Twitter” quite fascinating and this is why I searched the word “Twitter” on Wikipedia.com and stumbled upon this article. This linked article above is about the social networking site called Twitter and gives information about the history of it, the technology behind it and examples [...]

As Natalie Fenton discusses in her article, news through journalism has changed dramatically in the past 10 years (and is continuing to change). The “speed it up and spread it thin” motto that journalists now live by is an important point that has created a somewhat summarized version of current events or news stories for [...]

“Freedom of speech depends not only on the mere absence of state censorship, but also on an infrastructure of free expression. Properly designed, it gives people opportunities to create and build technologies and institutions that other people can use for communication and association. Hence policies that promote innovation and protect the freedom to create new [...]

http://shaheen.senate.gov/ The website I chose to analyze was the Senator of New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen’s US Senate website. As I first glanced through the website, I noticed A LOT of information. One might even consider the amount of information and links on the website overwhelming. There were links to different “hot topics” that the state [...]

Having open discussions and being a community based on inclusivity versus exclusivity is a very important aspect to this principle and to the idea of ‘produsage’ in general. Open participation in the community is balanced and kept in check by the communal evaluation that takes place. Open discussions create the medium for people to communicate [...]

This “Declaration of Principles” document we read, that was created at A World Summit on the Information Society in 2003 and then again in 2005, has very important ideals and beliefs that should be taken seriously. I personally think it is most important to achieve their “our challenge” section because that, in a nut shell, [...]

… Instead, he focuses on the advertising industry’s “construction” of the consumer. Why? What does his argument about the changing ‘idea’ of the consumer offer something more than a story that simply says “we develop data mining tools, advertisers turn to data mining and what it can offer”? This argument of the “construction” of the [...]

Do people really care what other people say on their Twitter accounts? Rated: from 4 votes

The “most popular topics” on Twitter right now mainly seem to be pop culture icons; whether that be movies, people etc. There were not really any major political “hot topics” on the Twitter Home page. The one that I thought was most political was probably the topic of Lent and Ash Wednesday. Most people were [...]