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New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists | Danger Room
GPS utilities could be used for "marksmanship, border crossings, and in concealment of supplies." and find multiple routes, identifying terrain features as they go
Surveillance Simulation Development Support - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities
FBI using Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) project RealWorld Platform
Spies Want a Second Life of Their Own | Danger Room
However, unlike players of World of Warcraft or Eve Online, A-SpaceX’s analysts will be able to turn back the clock, and see how they arrived at conclusions
Wage Cyberwar Against Hamas, Surrender Your PC | Danger Room
Israeli botnet/social network DOS attack system
What the Web knows about you
journalist investigates himself in online databases, finds inaccuracies, poor services, but a fair amount of data
Histories: When the internet was made of paper - science-in-society - 22 March 2008 - New Scientist
"From his armchair, everyone will hear, see, participate, will even be able to applaud, give ovations, sing in the chorus, add his cries of participation to those of all others." Otlet even saw social networking.
Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy
explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result.
Small worlds, lifeworlds, and information: The ramifications of the information behaviours of social groups in public policy and the public sphere
This paper attempts to build bridges between two sets of theoretical concepts related to information behaviour: the macro-level concepts of Jürgen Habermas related to lifeworlds and the micro-level concepts of Elfreda Chatman related to small worlds.
What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter?
"The Web means that the public will get better information than ever before." That framing is one that people who study social informatics would be skeptical of. We ask: "When will the Web enable the public to locate 'better information'? Under what conditions? Who? For what?"
Social Informatics: Overview, Principles and Opportunities
"Uses of ICT shape thought and action in ways that benefit some groups more than others."
Community Translation in a Multilingual Online Environment: Case study and theoretical framework - SlideShare
Connections between translation and participatory media as seen through Project Lingua and Global Voices.
Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com
Kevin Kelly on the semantic web and social networks in the future.
Personal Technology: The lucrative loneliness of the Chinese | The Jakarta Post
A generation that is comfortable with the cell phone but lacking the physical social networks that their parents had. In this case, maybe social networking is fulfilling a slightly different need: Online friendships aren't just a continuation of real-world ties, but relationships that are created and defined online. That's the relationship.
Loneliness is big business in China
There are now four generations, broadly speaking – six percent, the founding generation; 21% the Cultural Revolution generation – “in their 50s and 60s, low on academic qualifications and have worked their way up through the system”; 33% the open door generation – “they own western suits, they were the first to travel abroad and they signed the first joint ventures”; and 40% the strivers generation.
WebJunction
WebJunction is an online community for library staff. We build and support collaborative environments (like this one!) where library staff come together to connect, create, and learn. Has free courses.
BuddyPress » A Wordpress MU Based Social Network Platform
BuddyPress will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.
The Appleseed Project
Eventually, Myspace and Facebook, no matter what fancy features they may add, will seem as archaic as Compuserve and Prodigy do now.
Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software | Vivalogo Resources
list of best free, downloadable, open source social networking software
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