A gentle cantor through the history of Internet, Gaming and Mobile that leads us to social media and its darker side
For Social Media: Uses and Abuses, University of Leicester, June 2009.
21. Like using email, from around the mid 1990s (though it was first used at the same time when Pong emerged In the early 1970s) Here’s some clip art (remember?)
22. Cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20
35. “ Forget CNN or any of the major American "news" networks. If you want to get the latest on the opposition protests in Iran, you should be reading blogs, watching YouTube or following Twitter updates from Tehran, minute-by-minute.” Ari Berman, 2009.06.15
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38. So, this is what happened. But there was also a dark side to this new form of social interaction We didn’t all play nice And that’s really what I want to talk about Let’s take a look at some egs
56. “ social media is a product of various trajectories across computing, gaming, online development but most importantly our socialization into these cultures” I f we fail to socialize, we struggle to get social media
59. Your question... “ What anti-social practices do you engage in on social media?” Or “ In what ways have you found social media to be anti-social? Eg. On twitter, do you follow, to be followed and then unfollow?