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Developing Minds & Digital Media (DM2) With funding from The James and Judith K.

Developing Minds & Digital Media (DM2)

Dimon Foundation, the Developing Minds and Digital Media (DM2) Project explores the intersection of human development and digital media in both cognitive and social domains. We seek to identify how today’s young people differ from youth who came of age before cell phones, Facebook, and Twitter. Our research involves three strands: qualitative interviews and focus groups with professionals who have worked with youth for over 20 years; examination of secondary data sources; and content analyses of young people’s creative writing and artwork. In the first phase of our project, we conducted interviews with long-standing educators to cull their observations about how current students may be different from the students they taught in the pre-digital era.

In phase two, we conducted focus groups with other professionals who work with youth, including camp directors, psychologists and psychoanalysts, and religious/spiritual leaders. Stanford Confessions. Google Admits Street View Project Violated Privacy. Facebook Is Tracking Your Every Move on the Web; Here's How to Stop It. Armed With Facebook 'Likes' Alone, Researchers Can Tell Your Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation - Rebecca J. Rosen. But the deeper aspects of your personality remain hard to detect.

Armed With Facebook 'Likes' Alone, Researchers Can Tell Your Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation - Rebecca J. Rosen

Students in a health education class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, submit their personality problems to a panel, which leads a class discussion. The girl in the foreground is the subject of discussion. (Library of Congress, 1943) Have you Facebook liked The Godfather, The Daily Show, "Morgan Freeman's Voice," To Kill a Mockingbird, and (bizarrely) curly fries? If you said yes to each of those, then you really need to lay off liking things on Facebook. With remarkable accuracy, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Microsoft have been able to discern people's gender, sexuality, age, race, and political affiliation, based solely on their Facebook likes. The authors, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel, say the results demonstrate "how accurate and potentially intrusive such a predictive analysis can be.

" The case of this new study is quite the same. Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles". Digital dualism denialism. We talk a lot about “being online” and “being offline” or “going online” and “going offline,” but what do those terms mean?

Digital dualism denialism

The distinction between online and offline is an outdated holdover from twenty years ago, when “going online,” through America Online or Prodigy or Compuserve, was like “going shopping.” It was an event with clear demarcations, in time and space, and it usually comprised a limited and fairly routinized set of activities. As Net access has expanded, to the point that, for many people, it is coterminous with existence itself, the line between online and offline has become so blurred that the terms have become useless or, worse, misleading. When we talk about being online or being offline these days, we’re deluding ourselves. That, anyway, is the argument that some writers at the blog Cyborgology have been making over the past couple of years. Some have a bias to see the digital and the physical as separate; what I am calling digital dualism. Photo by Florian.