Ballin' and Lolin' (Kyle Barron)

Staging is the process where news corporations decide what should be made public and how. This process is not unique to how news was delivered 50 years ago or how news is delivered today. However, what is different is how people are accessing this information. I talk a lot about Digg on this blog. It [...]

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Urban Dictionary is a perfect spawning ground for “family UNfriendly” content. I would estimate that about half the definitions on the site are strange sexual maneuvers while the other half tries to stir up as much controversy as possible. I don’t think I have ever seen, nor can imagine, Urban Dictionary removing a dictionary because [...]

category: Uncategorized     tags: comment, Digg, Google, Urban Dictionary, YouTube

In Joseph Turow’s article “Audience Construction and Culture Production: Marketing Surveillance in the Digital Age,” Turow spends some time discussing targeted advertising in new media, such as the Internet. The first thing that I thought of was the blog post we did a few weeks ago concerning user-generated content. Recommendation machines have existed in realms other [...]

category: Uncategorized     tags: Cornell University, Facebook, Google, information science, recommendation systems, UGC, Wikipedia, YouTube