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Data Mining on Emoji Use
Saw this in the news and thought you guys might enjoy it, if anyone is in need a bit of a laugh/study break today. “Report finds that Canadians top the world in smiling poop emoji use: Canadian emoji users found to be twice as raunchy and violent as the rest of the world” “The report’s “findings […]
Facebook is at it again…
Seems Facebook can’t get away from egregious violations of privacy rights…the latest news indicating that their use of tracking cookies which send them data about your use of websites that carry the facebook “like” button (common on news sites, blogs, etc.) regardless of whether you’re a facebook user or have opted out of tracking. Apparently […]
Presentation Slides – Internet/Video Game Addiction – March 24
Hi all, Thank you for your interesting comments and questions during my presentation yesterday! Here is a copy of the slides if anyone is interested. Also additional feedback/ideas/comments are very welcome, feel free to post below! Presentation – Video Game Addiction Laura
Gamification Sucks?
On the topic of gamification of non-gaming industries (i.e. the adoption of game features such as scoring, badges, levelling, etc.) this is a very interesting speech by game designer Stephanie Morgan on why gamification is not necessarily effective or beneficial as it is currently being adopted –> http://www.besquare.me/session/gamification-sucks/
Internet and Gaming Addictions and the Technology that Drives them
For tomorrow’s class I will be presenting on the issue of internet addiction with a focus on addiction to online games. If you have a chance, please check out the following links prior to the presentation (or after if you don’t have a chance before!). The video in particular is a bit long (1hr 30) but […]
Impact of twitter’s “mass shaming” problem
This article does a great job of showing the real-life impact of online harassment in the context of “naming and shaming” people on Twitter (it focuses on people who have said unintentionally offensive or stupid things which went viral and usually resulted in them losing their jobs, etc.). It gives some interesting insight into the point […]
Online harassment and “digital rape”
I came across this article which was cited in one of our assigned readings earlier in the course and found it really interesting. http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/ It’s pretty relevant to what we talked about in class today so I thought I would share it. Basically, the author describes an early version of online trolling/harassment in which a […]
Keurig’s attempt to “DRM” their new coffee maker
Here is a link to the article mentioned in class today about Keurig’s attempt to “DRM” their new coffee machine and the general public dissatisfaction with this approach. http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986327/keurigs-attempt-to-drm-its-coffee-cups-totally-backfired Something I noticed upon re-reading the article is that they are actually being sued by some competitors for anti-trust violations after releasing this new machine (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/22/lawsuits-claim-k-cup-maker-violates-antitrust-laws/8028197/). […]