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Social Networking Sites and the Missing Half

ben | 04 October 2008, 6:00 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Dana Boyd describes “social networking sites” as “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these…

Picnic 2008 report: Surprising Africa

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Citizen journalism in Africa

‘Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa)

Hiscock, one of speakers at the Surprising Africa conference, held a lecture about Google’s interest in giving information-access to the one billion Africans. On the other hand, these same Africans need a way…

Why is Africa Surprising You? Surprising Africa @ Picnic ‘08

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Picnic is Amsterdam’s new media event of the year. This is one of the few times when people come together to discuss developments, innovations and changes in the industry on this scale. As a result, this is also one of the few events that attracts an international audience..

For the most part, the…

PICNIC 08 – “Homophily Can Make You Stupid” by Ethan Zuckerman

Liliana Bounegru | 27 September 2008, 2:14 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,
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In a presentation given yesterday at Picnic for the Bloggers Lab, organized by the European Journalism Centre, Ethan Zuckerman brought up an interesting concept that has quite remotely been discussed over the internet for a while now.

 

 

Today we are all enjoying this second step of the web evolution, the web 2.0, a read/write…