Over twenty percent of U.S. adults don’t use the Internet. As outlined in a new study conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life project, about one out of every five Americans simply don’t utilize the Internet at all. Within this group of people, approximately half attributed this fact to the lack of anything useful on the Internet. The most common groups to be without Internet access include households earning less than $30,000 per year, adults that haven’t obtained a high school diploma, senior citizens over the age of 65 and Hispanic adults.
Women were also slightly less likely to use the Internet when compared to men. The most common reason for not having Internet access was “just not interested.” Another roadblock to Internet access is the lack of a broadband connection. However, people using the Internet has increased from 50 percent in June 2000 to nearly 80 percent in August 2011. Regarding online activity, the most common Internet activities include using a search engine like Google or checking email. Social networking: Faceless friends. No Robots. How OoVoo Became Teenagers' Favorite Way To Video Chat. Why Artists Facebook. Facebook has already changed the way we communicate, creating virtual extensions of our real lives. Social networks are a microcosm of users' social worlds and a continuation of offline behaviors. But that's just for the regular folk - what about artists? How do artists use Facebook to augment their existing work, discuss ideas related to the work and think about the idea of online community?
To find out, I asked three artists who are rather active on Facebook: BRAVO art-reality TV star Young-Sun Han, San Francisco-based artist and GAP Storyteller Jason Hanasik and international artist Martha Rosler. Facebook Is A Gateway Drug To Reality TV: Artist Young-Sun Han Korean-American/Kiwi artist Young Sun-Han recently appeared on Season 2 of the BRAVO artist-reality TV show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist," so he's gotten pretty used to living in public.
A few years ago, the artist placed a Craigslist ad for a stranger to hug him for a sustained 24-hour period of time. 6 Reasons Why You Should NOT Put All Your Eggs In The Facebook Basket. There is no stopping Facebook at this point, no doubt about it. And with that also comes the increasing number of brands and companies engaging in the creation and management of Pages (or “Fan Pages” as they used to be known). We even hear about companies not having websites anymore to migrate all their efforts to Facebook. Okay, those are extreme cases but you can’t deny that at least once you heard about it. The problem is we are jumping in the wagon as we did back in the day when we decided that we needed a website because our competitors had one. We ended up building millions of digital brochures that did nothing but get you an “online presence”. What if Facebook Pages are not all that? What if they don’t work as well as we think they do? This doesn’t mean that Facebook Pages are not good for anything, they have proven to be a good traffic generator in some cases for example.
But what we shouldn’t do is put all our eggs in Facebook. 1. 2. 3. And much more. 4. 5. 6. Social Media: Students Using it to Improve Grades. Social media, tipping points and revolutions. News Literacy Project Trains Young People to Be Skeptical Media Consumers | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 13, 2011. JEFFREY BROWN: Now, information is coming at young people from everywhere these days, but where to look and what to believe? COLIN O’BRIEN, News Literacy Project: You want news sources that are transparent. You want to be able to see who is doing the reporting, see what their agenda is, see who funds them, see if they are, in fact, a credible source or not. JEFFREY BROWN: How can young people learn to be better consumers of news and information? A recent class at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, is trying to do just that: helping students distinguish news from opinion, fact from fiction, amid the daily onslaught of TV, radio, newspapers, and social media.
Social studies teacher Colin O’Brien began with a real-life example, a fast-moving email, in fact, a hoax, claiming that all schools in Great Britain had removed study of the Holocaust from their curriculum because the Muslim population claimed it never occurred. JEFFREY BROWN: How did the hoax become accepted as fact?