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Why Isn’t the Internet a Required Course?

On September 13, 2011January 29, 2014 By ChristianIn Commentary2 Comments

[Note: this is cross-posted from my blog multicast. --CS] I study the Internet. That's what I do. We're coming up on the Internet's 42nd birthday.  We just passed the Web's 20th birthday.  Why is it so hard to teach freshmen about them? That is, why are so many of our courses about the Internet and …

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The Oversharer (and Other Social Media Experiments)

On July 29, 2011January 29, 2014 By ChristianIn Commentary10 Comments

What new norms are we evolving via the use of social media? Way back in 1967 sociologist Harold Garfinkel proposed that the social world was filled with hidden rules for behavior that were so taken for granted it could be very difficult to notice them even if you tried to.  To make this point he …

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