Ballin' and Lolin' (Kyle Barron)

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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This will be the third class this semester I will talk about people’s motivation to create user-generated content UGC and publish it on the Internet. I currently have more UGC related accounts than I can list right now. The ones I use the most are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, WordPress, Digg, and (unashamedly) Sporcle.  Before these [...]

category: Uncategorized     tags: Digg, Facebook, Flickr, microblogging, MySpace, Sporcle, Twitter, UGC, Wikipedia, WordPress, Xanga, YouTube