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Guest post on SIMcast
My colleagues at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University asked me to guest blog for them this week. I wrote about gender identity and usability on the new social networking site Diaspora. When Inclusivity Trumps Usability: Gender as … Continue reading
Night Twitters and Facebook Faxes
I kind of love it when old and new technology meet. I love it when things that were born online go offline and stop making sense, or make different sense. Especially when it’s for no good reason other than maybe … Continue reading
Hashtags deconstructed: #speakloudly
The hashtag: #speakloudly The idea: People speak out about book banning and censorship. The background: On September 18th, a Missouri newspaper published an opinion piece by some fundamentalist Christian guy, who wanted some books removed from school curricula because they … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, book banning, books, hashtags, social media, twitter
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Should we use social media to archive our lives?
I read an article today that asked if the new location-based service, Facebook Places, is a “benevolent archivist.” As an archivist myself (though not a professionally practicing one right now), I wonder this too. Especially since I sometimes use social … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, facebook, facebook places, location, memorializing, memory, social media, twitter
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