Teens primarily use social media sites like MySpace and Facebook to maintain existing friendships rather than meet new people. These sites allow teens to extend their social interactions beyond physical boundaries. While social media can help teens get to know acquaintances better, they typically only use it to connect with people they already know offline or friends of friends. Performing friendships online through features like friending and displaying connections reflects teens' social status and identities. However, other features like ranking friends in a hierarchy on profiles can introduce unnecessary social pressures. Social media also tends to amplify teen drama that occurs both online and offline over issues of popularity, attention, and status.
Intrepid Millennial Explorers: Changing The Face Of Modern Consumerism (Resea...Influence Central
Millennials – the group of young, up-and-coming Americans in their post college 20s to early 30s – now represent the next rising generation, rapidly increasing in consumer power and influence. Yet despite this, Millennials remain among the least understood consumer sectors. To gain more in-depth insight into this group of consumers, Influence Central embarked on a groundbreaking study of 1,100 American Millennial Women. Our study focused on Millennials’ purchase path both online and offline, how their deep connections with family and friends impact the choices in their lives, and the effect of various types of media on their day-to-day decisions. The research findings paint a picture of a generation with a strong sense of self, influenced by family and peers alike, and steeped in the mosaic of the world around them.
By constantly collecting the signs of changing behavior in culture, markets, and technology, LHBS has done extensive research into one of the key demographics involved in these changes: young women. What follows is the second installment of research into this demographic, in which we focus on the theme of Relationships as a significant factor in what is driving values and decisions of young women today.
By sharing some of our research into this theme, we would like to draw attention to several important trends that have implications for businesses and brands that target this important demographic.
Tunheim Partners' David Erickson's and Eliza Appert's presentation at the 2008 Minnesota Council on Nonprofits conference, Nonprofits & Government: Partnerships & Policies in a Time of Retrenchment on Millennials & Micropayments: Social Giving & ePhilanthropy.
Extending media literacy: How young people re-mix and transform media to serv...Erin Reilly
Reilly, E. and Robison, A. (2008). "Extending media literacy: How young people re-mix and transform media to serve their own interests." Youth Media Reporter.
Intrepid Millennial Explorers: Changing The Face Of Modern Consumerism (Resea...Influence Central
Millennials – the group of young, up-and-coming Americans in their post college 20s to early 30s – now represent the next rising generation, rapidly increasing in consumer power and influence. Yet despite this, Millennials remain among the least understood consumer sectors. To gain more in-depth insight into this group of consumers, Influence Central embarked on a groundbreaking study of 1,100 American Millennial Women. Our study focused on Millennials’ purchase path both online and offline, how their deep connections with family and friends impact the choices in their lives, and the effect of various types of media on their day-to-day decisions. The research findings paint a picture of a generation with a strong sense of self, influenced by family and peers alike, and steeped in the mosaic of the world around them.
By constantly collecting the signs of changing behavior in culture, markets, and technology, LHBS has done extensive research into one of the key demographics involved in these changes: young women. What follows is the second installment of research into this demographic, in which we focus on the theme of Relationships as a significant factor in what is driving values and decisions of young women today.
By sharing some of our research into this theme, we would like to draw attention to several important trends that have implications for businesses and brands that target this important demographic.
Tunheim Partners' David Erickson's and Eliza Appert's presentation at the 2008 Minnesota Council on Nonprofits conference, Nonprofits & Government: Partnerships & Policies in a Time of Retrenchment on Millennials & Micropayments: Social Giving & ePhilanthropy.
Extending media literacy: How young people re-mix and transform media to serv...Erin Reilly
Reilly, E. and Robison, A. (2008). "Extending media literacy: How young people re-mix and transform media to serve their own interests." Youth Media Reporter.
Aqeel R Alnemer
Mr. copley
ENGLISH 101
Feb\22\2016
Social Media Impact to Young Generation
In this decade social media use has gained high level of usage. Organizations and institutions have shifted from the formal way of communication and connected social media as way of communication because its simplicity. However, with all the applicability of social media in the current generation it has emerged as a tool to destruction for many young people. MySpace Facebook and Twitter are among many social sites that people choose to keep their communication through. Children and young people are using low language, engage in sex, immoral behaviors. Therefore, although social media has its benefits of cross border and regional connectivity of individuals, its impact on young generation morality cannot be overlooked. Social media has caused deaths and social mistrusts among many individuals and businesses.
First, social media has been used in spread of movies, audios and pictures that have negative impact to the viewers and especially generation. Lack of censure of the information through the social medial channels allows for any kind of information to pass to different recipients. Young people are the majority of the modern technology participants. Such information may have unaccepted behaviors such as sexually oriented materials, hate speech especially in situation where racial profiling is common, and cyber harass due to the possibility of hiding the identity of the social media participants. Information is known for its ability to change mind set and especially for young people who have not yet developed principles and therefore the information available to such people will be the information they will use to establish their life principles. Therefore sexual, improper communication and violence will be the most common principles that young people affected by these vices will be in their future life. Therefore, the future generation will fancy such vices which have a negative impact to the society in large. For most young people differentiating fantasy from reality has been a great issue. They are exposed to violence in the media which in most cases is a fantasy instead of the reality. Therefore young people believe in the violence spread by the media and they practice such violent acts amongst themselves. They also try the sexual behaviors they witness in the media which in most cases is very risk for young generation. Abortions due to unwanted pregnancies due to uncontrolled sexual behaviors as depicted by the media are become normal with the current generation (Clark 43).
Secondly, people and especially young people may not be aware of the privacy and confidentiality their personal data might be. Implication of sharing such information on social media of daring since most of social media sites do not have security policies. Therefore most young people might disclose confidential on the social sites causing distress after their identity and is .
Guided Response Read the arguments presented by your classmates.docxaidaclewer
Guided Response
: Read the arguments presented by your classmates, and analyze the reasoning that they have presented. Whether you agree with their position or not, see if you can help them to improve their arguments. In particular, point out any respect in which a reasonable person might disagree with the truth of their premises or with the strength of their reasoning. Consider addressing the following questions: Did your classmate present a convincing argument? Why, or why not? Which part of the argument might someone dispute (e.g., premise, conclusion, structure, etc.)? How might the argument be strengthened? Make sure that your posts for the week include at least two substantive responses to classmates.
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Demetria Parnell
Go To Topic
Does social media enhance or hinder interpersonal relationships?
Premise 1: Social media enhances interpersonal relationships.
Premise 2: Social media hinders interpersonal relationships.
Conclusion: Social media can
enhanced
and hinder interpersonal relationships.
Social media enhances interpersonal relationships by promoting increased interaction with family and friends. It has been reported that social media allows people to feel more connected to information about their friends’ lives. Social networking provides an outlet for communication for those who are timid. Social media provides the confidence that people need to form strong interpersonal relationships. People can express themselves in ways that are appropriate with communicating with others.
Everyday
people are using social media to promote their businesses or build relationships with others. Teachers are able to use social media to collaborate with students building a stronger relationship outside the classroom. Social media serves as a platform of empowering people to support one another and connect with those who share the same interest.
Social media hinders interpersonal relationships by allowing people to post inappropriate statuses or photos that can be very discouraging. Cyber-bullying is a great example of how social media hinders interpersonal relationships. The television show Catfish is also another example of social media hindering interpersonal relationships. Social media allows people to create fake names and lives and trick people into thinking they are someone they are not. Through social media, people are not able to display verbal communication and they lack listening skills. While using social media it can be easy to interpret a situation wrongly. Communicating online hinders the development of conflict management skills and awareness of interpersonal cues.
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Sheryl Gobert
Go To Topic
Does social media enhance or hinder interpersonal relationships?
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Premise 1 – Social media enhances interpersonal relationships
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Premise 2 - Social media causes
hinders
interpersonal relationships
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Conclusion – Social media conflicts hinder interpersonal relationships
Social media could be the tool that enhances inte ...
For this research paper we had to give our opinion about how Social Media is either helpful or hurtful for society. We were assigned to either research the helpful or hurtful side. The side I was given to research was the hurtful side.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
2. For most teens, friendship-driven and interest-
driven practices play a more central role in structuring
new media participation than interest-driven practices.
MySpace and Facebook are common tools for friendship-driven practices
These sites are emblematic of the genre of
friendship-driven participation and support the kind of
social relations that center on popularity, romantic
relationships, and status
3. “If you’re not on MySpace you don’t exist”
Teens use social networking sites (SNSs) to keep in touch
with their friends, classmates, and peers when getting
together is not possible.
For many contemporary teenagers, losing access to
social media is tantamount to losing their social world
4. Teen practices when using social media mirror those
that scholars have documented in other places where
teens gather with peers
Teens gather in networked public spaces just as they do in public places
like parking lots or shopping malls for a variety of reasons: including to
negotiate identity, gossip, support one another, jockey for status,
collaborate, share information, joke, etc.
Social media allow teens to extend their interactions
beyond physical boundaries
5. Technology plays a huge role in establishing, reinforcing,
complicating, and damaging friendship-driven social bonds.
This chapter examines how social media intersects with
four types of everyday peer negotiations:
Making friends
Performing friendships
Articulating friendship hierarchies
Navigating issues of status, attention, and drama
6. “1950’s have been identified as a pivotal period
that saw the emergence of many of the dynamics
that define contemporary youth peer culture and
adult attitudes toward youth. This period saw a
broadening of the base of teens who attend high
school, a growth in youth popular and
commercial cultures, and the emergence of an
age-segregated peer culture that dominated
youth’s everyday negotiations over status and
identity.” (82)
As more and more youth attended high school they were becoming more
independent as a culture from their parents. They were starting to make
their own decisions, which were influenced heavily by others because of their
constant contact with others their age. I think that all the contact this
generation had with others their age increased the influence status and
identity had in their everyday lives. This period started the migration of
youth from public forms of friendship and gathering to, eventually, SNSs.
7. “The peer relations of children and teens are structured by a developmental
logic supported by educational institutions organized by rigid age boundaries.
We share a cultural consensus that the ability to socialize with peers and
make friendships is a key component of growing up as a competent social
being, and that young people need to be immersed in peer cultures from an
early age.” (83)
As a culture we put a great amount of value into having lasting relationships and
socializing with others from an early age. When we have children we plan
play dates as soon as they are able to recognize the presence of other
people. The social media world acted as almost a new culture for people to
be immersed in and foster relationships through. The relations and social
dynamics that play out in school extend into the spaces created through
social media. The places that teens would normally socialize in have been
created in the virtual world that allows them to socialize with those they
may not see on a daily basis.
8. Making Friends
“Social media theoretically allow teens to move beyond geographic
restrictions and connect with new people. Presumably, this means that
participants could develop relations with people who are quite different from
them.” (88)
Although one would think that SNSs allow teens to connect with new people
from different walks of life, this is typically not what happens. Like earlier
discussed, SNSs are used by teens as virtual “hang-out spots” where they are
unrestricted and typically uncensored. As Sabrina from the text describes, I
just find my friends and hang out.” (89)
“This is not to say that teens to not leverage social media to develop
friendships. Tees frequently use social media as additional channels of
communication to get to know classmates and turn acquaintances into
friendships.” (89)
SNSs can be useful tools to learning more about acquaintances and classmates.
Teens often use social media to make new friends of develop new
friendships, but they usually do so with acquaintances they have met already
or friends of friends.
9. Some teens, especially marginalized or ostracized ones,
use the opportunity that SNSs give them to meet new
people from different areas.
Teens who are driven by specific interests that may not by
supported by their schools, such as gaming, can build
relations with others online.
This is exactly the kind of SNS usage that caused schools to
implement the same sort of “stranger danger” education about
people met in the real world to those met online.
Mainstream media, law enforcement, teachers, and parents
reinforce the message that interacting with strangers online is
risky.
10. Performing Friendships
“One of the ways in which social media alter friendship practices is
through the forced- and often public- articulation of social
connections” (94)
This serves three purposes
Lists (such as friends list of buddy lists) act as an address book allowing
participants to keep a record of all the people they know
They allow participants to leverage privacy settings to control who
accesses their content
The public display of connections that takes place in social network sites
can represent an individual’s social identity and status
This is one way that teens are able to monitor and shape their status
online. The amount of Facebook friends or followers on Twitter they
have represent a sort of popularity or status in the real world.
11. The idea of the “friend request” adds another layer of
social processing to the process of performing
friendships through SNSs.
“Friending” has become a ritual that can permit or
prompt direct interaction when teens involved see one
another in school or at a group function; it lays the
groundwork for building a friendship and gives a reason
to single the other out from the group and initiate
communications.
12. Friendship Hierarchies
Features on social media sites like Top Friends on
MySpace creates a hierarchy among online
friendships. This allowed users to rank their
friends based on relational closeness.
“Reciprocity plays a central role in the negotiation
of Top Friends. Many teens expect that if they list
someone as a Top Friend, that person should list
them in return. Teens worry about not being listed
and about failing to list those who list them.” (101)
Examples from the text, such as a fifteen year old
named Jordan stating “Oh, it’s so stressful
because if you’re in someone else’s Top Friends
then you feel bad if they’re not in yours,”
highlight the power of this feature in shaping
how teens interact with SNSs. The main problem
with online rankings like Top Friends is that it
created hierarchies that are not present offline,
forcing a new set of social status negotiations.
13. Status, Attention, and Drama
“While teen dramas are only one component of friendship, they often
are made extremely visible by social media. The persistent and
networked qualities of social media alter the ways that these dramas
play out in teen life.” (104)
Even though I am older than the group described in the text, I see this
exact thing happen on a daily basis. Drama is either created online
between two people or groups of people, or happens in real life and
is continued on SNSs. For this reason it is important to pay attention
to the role that social media play in the negotiation of teen status.
14. “Gossip and rumors have played a role
in teen struggles for status and
attention since well before social
media entered the scene.” (105)
I am a strong advocate for SNSs and use
them daily personally and for work.
They have a lot of great qualities for
maintaining friendships. However,
many teens have not learned how to
manage and maintain friendships in
real life when they begin to use
SNSs. This causes the gossip and
rumors that serve as a catalyst for
teen drama.