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.
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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.
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Carnage4Life`s Space: Brand X vs. Brand Y: Social Effects and Competition in the Software Indistry
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Disney Seeks Its Fountain of Youth
Disney seeks entertainment that is relevant to the "net generation."
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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.
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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
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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
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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?
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Barbelith Underground > Policy & Help > The Psychology Of Trolling
What motivates people to attack internet communities from inside?
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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.
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LinkedIn: Derek E. Baird
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