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Are your students cheating? You call it copying; today's college students call it collaborating.

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Meet Alex Golub, Ph.D., an anthropology professor at the University of Hawaii. Golub plays a Resto Shaman in a Wrath-era raiding guild who's researching what he calls the culture of raiding -- "why people do something as crazy as run 25-mans four days a week."

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This ongoing research project investigates the changes that occur to weblogs (blogs) throughout their lifespan. It examines both the markers that indicate a particular phase of its existence in our emerging life cycle model and the drivers that move the c

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An essay by Kevin Kelly about how "all goods and services are candidates for rental, sharing, and the social commons."

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Professor Steve Whittaker, specializing in Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Co-operative Work, Multimedia Information Retrieval

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Contemporary science has done a great disservice to Sigmund Freud, suggests Sherry Turkle, who believes the psychoanalytic tradition can teach us much about the often concealed connections between physical objects and our thoughts and feelings. On the occ

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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics reveals how power now operates through the coupling of control and freedom. Although ideologies and practices of freedom and control are not new, the coupling of these terms is uniquely ti

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(via @DoshDosh) The central thesis of the book is that capitalism and democracy, free markets and free people, do not, as we’ve been told, go hand in hand. On the contrary, capitalism—at least fundamentalist capitalism, of the type promoted by the late ec

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Via Howard Rheingold, HP's Social Computing Lab focuses on methods for harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people in order to realize greater value from the interaction between users and information. Their research includes collective inte

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Episodic memory vs Semantic memory, How the human brain copes with being overburdened.

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The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

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The past decade has seen an explosion of lifestyle makeover TV shows. Audiences around the world are being urged to ‘renovate’ everything from their homes to their pets and children while lifestyle experts on TV now tell us what not to eat and what not to

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Media are, as McLuhan famously claimed “extensions of man,” and fundamentally shape our humanity. In a rapidly changing media environment we should expect changes in how we think about ourselves, our ethics, and our tastes, and these changes play themselv

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A Canadian exchange student shares his humorous (or less) experience of being in Singapore (via Siva)

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Thomson Reuters demands $10 million and an injunction to stop George Mason University from distributing its new Web browser application, Zotero software. Reason: Zotero converts EndNote's proprietary .ens style files into free, open source, easily distrib

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Like DARPA's competitions in the U.S., Singapore's new robot showdown offers big bucks for smart bots, and these iRobot mods could lead the way for smaller countries to hand-build autonomous armies of their own. On hand for this weekend's stair-climbing,

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Bloggers who exhibit both extraversion and self-disclosure traits tend to maintain larger strong-tie social networks and are more likely to appropriate blogs to support those relationships. Age, gender, and education have no relationship to network size,

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