April 2012
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Reflecting Forward and Backward
We recently had Eli Pariser talk about The Filter Bubble, and the challenge of having technology hide information from us online. This Sunday’s NY Times brought Sherry Terkel, talking about “The Flight from Conversation,” where she laments the ability for always-on connectivity to become a substitute for deep, meaningful, interactive, in-person conversations.
In today’s...
Privacy Thoughts
I thought this comic was amusing, but also rang true. While there are some real privacy concerns, I think we often are not as careful as we should be online. I have heard people complain about privacy concerns, yet they openly share personal information on their personal social media sites. If we are so concerned about privacy, shouldn’t we be more careful? We click through agreements without...
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Getting down to the wire
We’re nearing the end of classes and the time when things are due. So I’m going to go “off plan” and instead of previewing material from the next class, I’ll just share a few articles that may actually help you with your final papers.
We don’t really emphasize search marketing as part of class. However, as anyone who has looked at a typical site’s...
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Knocking Down the Silos
Social Media have triggered new collaborations, across organizations and disciplines. We’ve seen that clearly from our work in class over the past 10 or so weeks. A practitioner doesn’t just have to know fundraising or development in a traditional sense (though it is critical to understand the field as a whole), they have to know how to get the crowd involved as well.
As shown in...
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#wnpNYU Links: Games and Case Studies
“Gamification” was the theme of last week’s class and here are some (slightly belated!) links to relevant material. I came across this fabulous story in upstate Times Herald-Record courtesy of blogger Lance Mannion - an onlight flight simulator tool based on a game that will allow researchers to crowdsource the right of Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated 1937 flight.
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Privacy (Still) Matters
This Wednesday, we’ll be talking about a number of Information Age challenges to civil liberties. Your optional reading this week (the first two chapters of Helen Nissenbaum’s Privacy in Context) focuses on how the “social” Internet has forced society to reexamine its definitions of privacy and its expectations for it.
Make no mistake: the privacy debate is hotter (and...
What do we really know?
I am sitting in my BEAUTIFUL NEW APARTMENT ;) As I’m sitting here, did I mention it’s a beautiful apartment, anyway, as I am sitting here I’m starting to think how much we really know about social media. There is such a mass amount of information stored within these databases that we can’t possibly know how much of that being contained or saved. Furthermore, the fact that...
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Don't give in to the Dark Side
Do we really know the power of the dark side?
Next week’s class is about the challenges, failures and public relations nightmares that come with being online. Some organizations are duly chastised, and turn their procedures and direction around, as we heard from the Red Cross earlier in the semester.
Some situations, like the Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood conflict earlier this...
Many-to-Many
So far this term, we’ve talked quite a bit in class about engagement — and how individuals can communicate with many people quickly using social media. We’ve also talked about the Occupy movement, Kony2012, the Komen backlash and other examples where social media have been used to facilitate rapid, group-to-group communication and engagement.
George Weiner, the CTO of...
