2. “ We believe that current youth adoption of digital media production and ‘social media’ is happening in a unique historical moment, tied to longer-term and systemic changes in sociability and culture.” http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Hanging_Out.pdf
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7. Why Does it Matter? understanding the new digital generation The following video and slides are my edited remix of Michael Wesch’s presentation done on Slideshare.com and YouTube. Dr. Wesch is a pioneer in social media education and was recently named Professor of the Year
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9. “ What we are encountering is a panicky, an almost hysterical, attempt to escape from the deadly anonymity of modern life ... and the prime cause is not vanity ... but the craving of people who feel their personality sinking lower and lower into the whirl of indistinguishable atoms to be lost in a mass civilization."
10. “ What we are encountering is a panicky, an almost hysterical, attempt to escape from the deadly anonymity of modern life ... and the prime cause is not vanity ... but the craving of people who feel their personality sinking lower and lower into the whirl of indistinguishable atoms to be lost in a mass civilization." - Henry Seidel Canby 1926
24. Two Slides: towards ... Charles Taylor's “Ethics of Authenticity” (1991)
25. Two Slides: towards ... 1. “self-centered modes of self-fulfilment” Charles Taylor's “Ethics of Authenticity” (1991)
26. Two Slides: towards ... 1. “self-centered modes of self-fulfilment” 2. “negation of all horizons of significance” Charles Taylor's “Ethics of Authenticity” (1991)
27. Two Slides: towards ... 1. “self-centered modes of self-fulfilment” disengagement 2. “negation of all horizons of significance” Charles Taylor's “Ethics of Authenticity” (1991)
28. Two Slides: towards ... 1. “self-centered modes of self-fulfilment” disengagement 2. “negation of all horizons of significance” fragmentation Charles Taylor's “Ethics of Authenticity” (1991)
29. Two Slides: towards ... 1. “self-centered modes of self-fulfilment” disengagement 2. “negation of all horizons of significance” fragmentation special interest sound bite politics Charles Taylor's “Ethics of Authenticity” (1991)
58. Society & Citizenship- Twitter http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-2-2009/twitter-frenzy http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/06/18/dcl.barnett.iran.social.networks.cnn?iref=videosearch
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60. Can 140 Characters Make a Difference? http://www.splashmedia.com/resources/blog/changing-the-world-in-140-characters-or-less/
Editor's Notes
sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community . In its earliest usage, a sockpuppet was a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks with or about himself or herself, pretending to be a different person, [1] like a ventriloquist manipulating a hand puppet . Trolling - an internet term for a person who willfully, through obscene, offensive or hateful actions (a.k.a. "trolling"), attempts to disrupt a community or garner reactions, attention and controversy. -
