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The drama of Facebook

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The world''s largest and most successful social network, Facebook - celebrated its tenth anniversary in February 2014. Facebook is a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Facebook is a social phenomenon that cannot be ignored. Erving Goffman is well known for work on psychiatric asylums, social rituals and stigma.

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New spaces, new pedagogies

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Here's the abstract for my keynote: New Spaces, New Pedagogies: Harnessing the Power of Social Media in Education A rapid emergence of social media – the so called ‘Web 2.0’ – has opened up new opportunities for participatory learning in all sectors of education. wikis privacy digital identity. Unported License.

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Making Spectacles of ourselves

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The popular social media company Snapchat (soon to be renamed simply 'Snap') has released news of a product which might just revolutionise the wearable technology industry. As with any other wearable technology that captures and shares images and video, there are issues around privacy and misuse. Unported License.

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Watch your back!

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One of the important skills I identified in a previous post on digital literacies is how people manage and protect their privacy. Indeed, each of us is vulnerable because there is a huge potential for our privacy to be breached in any online environment. This begs the question - can any of us protect our privacy on the web?

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Wearing out our welcome

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We have already learnt that there are new and emerging social mores and conventions that we need to adopt. David Kelly's early adoption of various wearable technologies led him to learn the hard way about some of the issues that arise when new technology collides with established social and cultural expectations. Unported License.

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and then our tools shape us

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Today''s book recommendation is the fifth in the series: Howard Rheingold (2002) Smart Mobs: The next social revolution. I first read it whilst a new academic and still finding my way, and I read it in a time that pre-dated what we now know as social media. Photo by Biser Todorov (Wikimedia Commons). Cambridge, MA: Basic Books.

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A day in the life: The quantified self

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Questions are raised though, around issues of privacy and safety. What if the data fell into the wrong hands, or more likely - what if people indiscriminately share their intimate, personal data on social media sites, as they already do with images and other personal information? Is it now time to quantify ourselves? Unported License.

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