MySpace and Facebook are creating a youth culture of digital narcissism

That’s the message of a new book by Andrew Keen called ‘The Cult of the Amateur: how today’s internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy’. His main point is that social media sites have created a proxy culture of self-publication where the “wisdom of the crowd” has replaced the voices of experts. What [...]

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A Map of Social Media Networks

Hey this morning I was directed to this map, and thought it would be very useful for our presentation.

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Should news-based social media be only for the “professionals”?

Don’t really want to publicise my blog, but I have had an interesting comment on one of my posts. Fish is a friend of mine from home – he is a press journo working on a local paper. Read his comments and see what you think… Might be a very useful viewpoint for our presentation?

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Mashup Madness

When we had the meeting we talked about creating a map showing where all our friends live on Facebook. I’ve plotted my friends on google maps – I sent you all a link to your uni email if you would like to add your friends as well.

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Social Media in Plain English

Fantastic video explaining exactly what social media is: And another for social networking: He has done a whole host of videos on Twitter, RSS Feeds, Social Bookmarking, – the whole caboodle! It might be worth having a look to see which ones we want to use in our presentation. And their official website is here.

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Ethical Questions/Issues which weren’t on our List….

A quick google search rapidly highlights the sinister side of social networking, which we didn’t flag up in our discussion. With the news of a “live” suicide online and the conclusion of the MySpace bullying case in the States, I think we should address some of these issues… Life-casting websites. I had to search Wikipedia [...]

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Regulation of Social Networking Sites

You Tube, Facebook and Myspace. Three of the most popular social networking sites out there. But whilst all provide their own regulations of use, all have recently made the news after individuals used the hosts as forums for illegal activity. (I have bookmarked a whole load of sites whilst researching this blog. They are available [...]

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Hello the Mission

I’ve started on the road to actually using the ultimate in social media Second Life – but what do I do with what I’ve found?

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