tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150499612012-01-27T11:43:28.078-06:00Introduction to New Media -- Course BlogThis is the course blog for SPC 260, "Introduction to New Media"Steve Maceknoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-59910235596955081732012-01-27T11:36:00.002-06:002012-01-27T11:43:28.096-06:00Twitter Censorship?!?Just last week, Net-izens celebrated the apparent defeat of SOPA. Now, they must confront a potentially even more ominous new threat to online freedom: Twitter's new censorship policies. Read the Atlanta Journal Constitution's report here. Steve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-75867300059266254752012-01-25T12:43:00.002-06:002012-01-25T12:47:04.456-06:00Danah Boyd Profile in the New York Times.One of the authors we're reading this week on Social Networking Sites, Danah Boyd, pictured above, is the subject of an interesting recent profile in the New York Times. The article is called "Cracking Teenager's Online Codes". Check it out.Steve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-87567500785489232642012-01-17T12:57:00.004-06:002012-01-17T13:16:12.860-06:00SOPA protests, Other Disturbing Copyright-related LegislationIn our last class we talked a bit about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and its possible effects. Tomorrow, in fact, Google and Wikipedia will both be taking actions to protest the proposed legislation (see here and here). Google will be putting up an anti-SOPA announcement tomorrow on its search page. Meanwhile, as everyone on the planet now knows, on Wednesday, Wikipedia, Reddit and other popularSteve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-56315841985658557092011-01-14T10:27:00.006-06:002012-01-17T13:17:54.402-06:00Blog Prompt #2: Addicted to Google?In class Monday, we began exploring the vast power and influence of search giant Google, a company that seems to have a hand in just about everything having to do with new media. I'd like you all to write a blog post that explores the role Google -- in all its manifestations (Chrome, Maps, Streetview, YouTube, Blogger, search, etc.)-- plays in your own experience of the Internet. Are you Steve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-23121670089433174892009-12-03T12:31:00.003-06:002009-12-03T13:34:17.803-06:00There are many different genres of blog. Here are some of the principal ones:1. Filterblog-- Record interesting links the author finds surfing the web and sometimes annotates them. Example: Robot Wisdom2. Personal blogs/online diaries-- Articulates an individual's perspective on daily life, relationships, culture, society, politics and everything. Example: Dooce, Ye Olde London Blog3. Topic blogsSteve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-34797860127130709712009-12-02T15:50:00.001-06:002009-12-03T12:29:51.872-06:00All About WikisHere's a nice example of an educational use for a wiki.Steve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15049961.post-11772738389862173632007-01-04T18:57:00.002-06:002008-03-26T10:13:49.598-05:00Blog Prompt #1Blog Prompt #1.For your first blog post I'd like you to write your own personal reaction to one of the following interviews -- conducted by Rebecca Blood-- in which notable bloggers discuss how and why they blog.Trine-Maria Kristensen [02/07]Bruce Schneier [01/07]Megan Reardon [ 04/06 ]Fred First [ 05/06 ]Jason Kottke [ 08/06 ]Tiffany B. Brown [ 08/06 ]Scott Rosenberg [ 10/06 ]More "bloggers on Steve Maceknoreply@blogger.com0