Media Literacy and Social Action in a Post-Pokemon World:
at is it that kids are doing online these days, and what does it mean for the shape of knowledge, culture, and information in the future? We all know that text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube are part of changes in how kids are communicating and engaging with media. But how much of this is really different from the kind of hanging out, sharing, and media consumption that earlier generations engaged with? The big challenge in looking at the space of…
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What Tweeters Think of the Latest Movie – NYTimes.com:
itter’s ability to affect box office results — fast and furious tweets helped sink “Brüno” and buoy “The Hangover” — just got a shot in the arm. SkinniPopcorn.com, introduced last week by the British interactive design company called magneticNorth, bills itself as “the world’s first social media movie buzz barometer.” Go to the site, click on the “now showing” button, and see an unedited, unfiltered stream of Twitter commentary. It is a twist on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic,…
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Clay Shirky on loss of control in new media and how to deal with it:
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Clay Shirky on Information Overload:
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Text messaging allows Africans to respond to crisis situations:
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Creating the illusion of accomplishment in video games:
ny game developers are starting to find that games with illusory challenges sell better than those with real challenge. They believe that what gamers want most is an experience that conveys the feeling of accomplishing a difficult task, but without the difficulty. via blog.wolfire.com Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get…
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One Laptop Per Child – Nicholas Negroponte at TED:
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Peter Hirshberg on the importance of an open API:
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