Helping to Protect the 2020 US Census - About Facebook. Next year, all US households will be able to complete the US census online for the first time.
As the format of the census evolves, so do the ways that people share information about the census. This means we have to be more vigilant about protecting against census interference across posts and ads on Facebook and Instagram and help promote an accurate count of every person in the country.
“Boys will be boys”? Isn’t it time we stopped excusing bad behavior? Re-think and take action by joining us at #TheBestMenCanBe… Parenting for a Digital Future – The social implications of teens leaving Facebook. Wealthier teens in the developed world are shunning Facebook and switching to image- and video-based social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.
In this post, David R Brake considers the potential consequences for political engagement and inequality. David is an alumnus of the Media department at LSE and his research interests include digital divides and digital media literacy, privacy in online contexts, mediated interpersonal interaction, the political economy of the social web and other internet applications, online journalism and the interconnections between new media, the mass medias and politics. For years, Facebook grew in size and influence at a staggering rate.
But recent reports suggest its hold on users – particularly in the developed world – may be weakening. Globally, Facebook’s user numbers continue to rise steadily as more people in the developing world connect. Snapchat and Instagram use grows. Why does this shift matter? The wealthy leave Facebook The future. PewDiePie’s ties to white supremacy spell serious trouble for YouTube. YouTube’s most popular user is once again facing backlash — this time for promoting a highly anti-Semitic channel by recommending a video featuring a racial slur and a white supremacist conspiracy.
With 76 million subscribers, gaming vlogger PewDiePie, a.k.a. Felix Kjellberg, is the most popular individual on YouTube. In a since-edited video posted on December 9, he recommended several YouTube channels he said he’d been enjoying recently. Social Media isn't for Learning - Long View on Education. Eu.indystar. How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life. In the early days of Twitter, I was a keen shamer.
Can schools punish students for off-campus, online speech? Clay Calvert, University of Florida In January 2014, Reid Sagehorn, a student at Rogers High School in Minnesota, jokingly tweeted “actually yeah” in response to a question about whether he had made out with one of his high school teachers.
The public school, acting on the tweet, suspended him for seven weeks. Sagehorn, a member of the National Honor Society, fought the suspension in a federal court, claiming the actions of school officials violated his First Amendment right to free speech. TechCrunch. Ash Wednesday: No Selfies. In his jeremiad against the practice, Vanity Fair culture columnist James Wolcott offers the following stupid examples of the electronic form of self-exposure known as the “selfie.
" How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life. Sacco’s Twitter feed had become a horror show.
“In light of @Justine-Sacco disgusting racist tweet, I’m donating to @care today” and “How did @JustineSacco get a PR job?! Her level of racist ignorance belongs on Fox News. #AIDS can affect anyone!” USA TODAY. Jerry Mosemak There's no such thing as censorship on Twitter. by Josh Gad, special for USA TODAY Global warming is a hoax.
Twitter Statistics: Retweets Ain’t What They Used To Be? Last week I published a post titled “82% of Twitter users have less than 350 followers” on this blog with some juicy statistics generated from our Twitter Counter database.
The post got a fair number of retweets (367 in the first 24 hours) and an reasonably amount of unique visitors. The interesting thing however is the amount of traffic we got based on the number of retweets. In the first 24 hours we got 980 unique visitors in total on just that one post. 258 uniques came straight from Twitter.com and we counted another 305 from other Twitter sources such as Hootsuite, api.twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com and Seesmic.com.
The other traffic was mainly from Google, Facebook and other blogs that reviewed and linked to our post. Hire the Right Type of VP Marketing — Or You’ll Just End Up With a Bunch of Blue Pens with Your Logo On Them. Apologies to all those to whom this is already well known.
But, I know many of you have never hired a head of marketing before. #ISTE12 and the importance of educator connections. I recently attended a complete immersion of education philosophy, education methods and pedagogy, technology tools for learning and connectedness with education thought leaders from around the world.
All of this took place at one of our premier annual education conferences, ISTE 2012 in San Diego. Scistuchat. Sites and Blogs: Eight Ways Teachers Get Into Trouble Because Of Facebook. While the past few years has brought news stories of people from all professions getting into trouble at work because of something they posted on Facebook, it seems like there have been more stories about teachers than other professionals. Maybe teachers' Facebook foolishness gets more news coverage because of the special level of trust that parents bestow on teachers.
Maybe it is because teachers are unfairly targeted by hypercritical parents and the many groups that dislike teachers' unions. Maybe it is simply because the press loves to tell a juicy story of a teacher gone bad. Whatever the reason, it seems like every week there is a new story about a teacher in trouble because of Facebook. Social media like Facebook creates special problems for professionals because when an employee posts their instant thoughts, opinions or pictures to a group of personal "friends," they feel like they are doing it as a person, not a professional. #Twitteracy. “So here are some questions that keep me up at night: How are we to make our students literate if we ourselves are not? If we cling to age old definitions and ignore the wisdom of one of the oldest professional education organizations we have in this country, how do we provide my kids with the experiences they need to fully understand what it means to be a self-directed, participatory learner in this century?
How do we make sure that every child and every teacher has access to these tools and connections? Policy Priorities:Can Social Media and School Policies be "Friends"?:Executive Summary on Social Media in Schools. Why Your Business Should Consider Reverse Mentorship. Social Media in the Classroom. Social Media Classroom: New Web 2.0 Platform for Education. The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom.
The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more. 13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom. Twitter, Blogs, and Wikis: Social Media in the Classroom. Note: This blog post was originally posted at my personal blog, The Chutry Experiment, and I am grateful to HASTAC for inviting me to publish it here as well. Social Media Cartoons.