Category Archives: everyday social networking
Do we need to teach social media?
A Masters (MSc) course has been launched at City University in London to teach social media. The implications of social media for campaigning and to enhance democratic engagement are fascinating, don’t get me wrong. The current collection of MPs expense … Continue reading
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Why microblog when you can nanoblog
Just discovered this piss take on Mashable, the online social media blog, a mockumentary from video site Slate V, which is a spinoff of the Washington Post’s satirical Slate online magazine:
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Visualising social networking
Video of visualised Facebook interaction across the globe. It’s sexy, but it doesn’t teach us much.
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Teaching social networking + primary schools = preaching to the converted?
The news today that social networking is to be taught to primary school pupils instead of history sounds a bit sensationalist to me. How you teach glorified web surfing I don’t know. And anyway don’t the under 11s all know … Continue reading
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hi abu check out my latest post lol c u later osama
“We have no way of knowing whether Osama bin Laden is chatting to Abu Hamza on Facebook. Or terrorists could be having a four-way chat on Skype.” That’s what an unnamed Home Office spokesperson told the Guardian today for a … Continue reading
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Social networking tools – fleeting romance or long-term relationship?
How do you gauge the lifespan of new social networking tools – does it even matter how long they last? It matters how long they last when,
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Blogging: what’s the point?
Since I’ve resurrected this blog recently I’ve been thinking carefully about what it should include. While pondering on the point of a blog at all I remembered that just to be able to publish writing and images on pretty much … Continue reading
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