Skip to main content

Close
Get the best research tool on the web today,and free!
Connect with people with common interests!
Play Webslides

Derek Baird's Bookmarks tagged sociology   View Popular

You are here: Diigo Home > Derek Baird's Bookmarks

Expand All 1 - 20 of 44 Next › Last »

Isolated Americans trying to connect

The nation has never been more populous, soon to reach the 300 million mark. And it has never been more connected — by phone, e-mail, instant message, text message, and on and on.

Tags: community, for:bj, social, sociology, software on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.usatoday.com

The Individual Is The New Group -- Part 1. Get Real: Stowe Boyd`s Soapbox

I have come to believe that this model is being eclipsed by a new epicenter of social context: the individual, rather than the group.

Tags: collaboration, sociology on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromgetreal.corante.com

Disney Seeks Its Fountain of Youth

Disney seeks entertainment that is relevant to the "net generation."

Tags: ed, education, generation, net, sociology, tech on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more frompodcastedu.com

Powells Books | An Introduction to Cybercultures by David Bell

This text introduces students to all the major themes and concepts in this rapidly-growing field, from the evolution of hardware and software to the emergence of cyberpunk film and fiction.

Tags: community, design, experience, online, social, sociology, software, usability, user on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.powells.com

NPR : Developing Fictional Relationships

This story discusses para-social relationships, that is people developing relationships with tv characters. In terms of the web, are the relationships people develop in online communities also para-social in nature? Are folksonomies a para-social activity

Tags: community, online, radio, social, sociology, software on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.npr.org

Bookmark Now:Writing in Unreaderly Times by Kevin Smokler

The book features authors in their twenties and thirties those raised when TV, video games, and then the Internet supplanted books as dominant cultural mediums and their intent is to examine: (1) how this generation came to writing as a calling, (2) what

Tags: always, community, culture, cyber, learning, on, sociology on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.powells.com

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

Tags: community, environment, green, reading, required, sociology on 2008-04-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.penguinputnam.com

Barbelith Underground > Policy & Help > The Psychology Of Trolling

What motivates people to attack internet communities from inside?

Tags: community, culture, cyber, online, sociology on 2008-04-03 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.barbelith.com

Survey: Generation Facebook's skills wasted at work

Many young adults are confident in their IT skills, survey finds, but businesses are not making the most of their tech savvy.

Tags: culture, for:cameron, for:cathyrodriguez, for:karonlmno, for:mrmayo, for:suttonhoo, genY, social.media, sociology, trends, yahoo.teachers on 2008-03-06 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.news.com

1 - 20 of 44 Next › Last »
List 20 50 100

Notation: * = Private bookmark and comment| = Clipping [?] | = Public highlight [?]