The Internet: Links
These links represent recent on-line articles I have found. If you have other suggestions, please contact me.
"As We May Think" Vannevar Bush
"Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" by Marc Prensky
Part 1;
Part 2
• Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning (The Sloan Consortium)
• "Online Education: Tailoring, Measuring and 'Bridging'" (Inside Higher Ed, 10/26/07)
• "More Online Enrollments"(Inside Higher Ed, 10/23/07)
• "Google's Response to Facebook: 'Maka-Maka'" by Erick Schonfeld
• Don Tapscott on Facebook and Wikinomics, CNN Video (thanks to Alex Kopp for the link)
• "Well, if They're Already Using It ..." by Andy Guess
• Siva Vaidhyanathan on "Trendspotting"
• "Students' 'Evolving' Use of Technology"
• "The Fakebook Generation" by Alice Mathis
• "The Facebook of Wall Street's Future" by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• "The 'Where I've Been' Map Is Now Also on Myspace.com" by Hilary Howard
• "Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges" by John Markoff
• "Brawl Over Islam on Facebook" by Noam Cohen
• "Logged In and Sharing Gossip, er, Intelligence" by Scott Shane
• "What Are Friends For?" by Reihan Salam
• "The Facebook Commandments: How to deal with unwanted friend requests, the ethics of de-friending, and other social networking etiquette predicaments" by Reihan Salam
• "Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism" by Christine Rosen, The New Atlantis
•"An Unmanageable Circle of Friends Social-Network Web
Sites Inundate Us With Connections, and That Can Be Alienating" by Monica Hesse, Washington Post
• "Labels Win Suit Against Song Sharer" by Jeff Leeds
• "Apple vs. Everyone. Every media conglomerate wants to start its own online venture. Will iTunes survive?" by Ivan Askwith
• "Google's Evil Eye: Does the Big G know too much about us?" by Michael Agger
• "Inside the Googleplex"
• "Who's afraid of Google?"
• What is Second Life?
• Virtual Worlds, Virtual Lives
• "Ice Ice Baby: My few weeks in Club Penguin, a social networking site for middle-schoolers" by Michael Agger
• "When Wikipedia Is the Assignment"
• "Our Virtual Middle Ages" by Steve Fuller
An interesting source for issues regarding digital technologies and the university is the "Wired Campus" section of The Chronicle of Higher Education. You can access the Chronicle from the Tech library site. Then go to: http://chronicle.com.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu:8080/wiredcampus/ Recent topics include Second Life, file sharing, YouTube, iTunes and free speech on-line.
