Welcome to the wiki supporting Managing Knowledge and Information for spring 2010.
Please join our wiki and add a profile (you can see links to the requisite pages on the left) when you get a chance. Please be patient with this process, I may need to do a bit of work on the administrator end. If problems arise, let me know as soon as possible. Thanks. Welcome to the class.
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Of Interest
If you run across any items of interest to the class, please free free to add them to this page.
"Internet access is 'a fundamental right'" "Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests"
We've talked recently in class about predicting the Internet's, and Facebook's, future. Here's an interesting take on the issue of futurism: "That Whole Internet Thing's Not Going To Work Out: How to suss out bad tech predictions" by Farhad Manjoo.
"Publishing: The Revolutionary Future." Jason Epstein, The New York Review of Books.
From Brittney: 2 China Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks: "A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation."
As we spoke of speed on yesterday (2/17): "Faster, Faster! Google's brilliant new plan to provide super-speedy Internet access." See Farhad Manjoo's work. And another important source: The Googlization of Everything.
A well-rendered review from The New York Review of Books: "In the World of Facebook"
A (somewhat) related conference: Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy.
Don't Touch That Dial! A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
TED Talks: "TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader."
For your satirical pleasure: 'The Class' DU innovation Class. From the Digital Ethnography project at Kansas State: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
The New York Times Internet section is an excellent resource.
This article, "The 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook" at Salon, will be of interest to anyone writing an essay to do with Facebook. Follow the article's links to see the data. The piece opens: "Peter Warden, a former Apple engineer, likes to analyze data — so much so that he started scraping public profiles and photos from hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts about a year ago, and now has data collected from more than 200 million around the world."
In thinking about Step One of Collaborative Essay, a study:
Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds: "A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time 'media multitasking' (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours."
I thought the following piece, "Digital Nation" by Heather Havrilesky at Salon, would be of interest. She reviews the Frontline special "digital_nation: life on the virtual frontier."
Brittney alerted me to this article: "Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There"
This wiki was established to support the fall 2009 section of the course. I've decide to leave class members' previous work as a active archive to which we can refer. Let me know if you have questions.
Again, welcome.
