Monthly Archives November 2007

links for 2007-11-14

JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1
danah boyd and Nicole Ellison guest edit a bunch of scholarship on social media
(tags: social-media sociology communication)

I want to silkscreen

Nicole and I were getting a drink at the Farm, which is fast becoming a sacred tradition, when I glanced up and saw a wonderful painting. Actually, it was really a painting, but more of a repetition of images of cows and stop signs that looked like they were photocopied onto a painted-red canvas. [...]

links for 2007-11-13

How social media can help shape society
David Colarusso and the 10Questions team get a nice write-up.
(tags: debates campaigns election)

links for 2007-11-12

Trebor’s bookmarks tagged with “media_study_courses” on del.icio.us
(tags: research teaching education)

Jefferson Jackson a warm-up for Iowa - Roger Simon - Politico.com
“Our people look like caucus-goers,” Grunwald said, “and his people look like they are 18. Penn said they look like Facebook.”
(tags: caucus campaigns president)

A History of the Social Web - Trebor Scholz ‘journalisms’ [...]

links for 2007-11-11

Leveraging Facebook the Right Way «
Tips on using Facebook from the Social Media Guy.
(tags: Facebook social-networking advocacy)

links for 2007-11-09

Unit Structures
Fred’s explanation of the privacy implications of Facebook’s Beacon.
(tags: Facebook social-networking advertising privacy)

Fighting Cybercrime or Living in the Wayback Machine?

Senators Pat Leahy, Arlen Specter, and Dick Durbin are co-sponsoring a new bill to help fight online identity theft, and yesterday they sent me an email about it.
The banner at the top of the email read: “Fighting Cybercrime.”

Listen, I hate identity theft as much as the next guy, but why must we call [...]

links for 2007-11-08

The Hub
Witness’ new video database is pretty cool.
(tags: human-rights video)