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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]