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Report: Social Networking, Video Photos and Videos as Social Currency Online by Lee Rainie, Joanna Brenner, Kristen Purcell “46% of internet users post original photos and videos online they have created themselves and 41% curate photos and videos they find elsewhere on the internet and post on image-sharing sites. Women are more likely than men …
Senior Citizens and Digital Technology from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
Via LLRX.com, Privacy Resources and Sites on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman’s guide is a comprehensive listing of both free and low cost privacy resources currently available on the Internet. It includes associations, indexes and search engines, as well as websites and programs that provide the latest technology and information on Web privacy. This …
Via LLRX.com – Tutorial Resources on the Internet – Marcus P. Zillman’s guide is a wide ranging and immediately useful listing of tutorial resources and sites on the Internet. This guide will assist you to discover, review and select the most relevant and reliable sources for your requirements, on topics that include: e-training, health sciences …
News release: “Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling FTC charges that Myspace misrepresented its protection of users personal information. The settlement bars Myspace from future misrepresentations about its privacy practices, requires the company to implement a comprehensive privacy program, and calls for regular, independent privacy assessments …
OCLC news release: “This report urges a collaborative approach for conversion of content on various types of digital media. Written by Senior Program Officer Ricky Erway, Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration, is intended for managers who are making decisions on where to invest their born-digital time and money. It …
Smartphone Ownership Update: September 2012 – by Lee Rainie, September 11, 2012 Two-thirds of young adults and those with higher income are smartphone owners. 66% of those ages 18-29 own smartphones; 68% of those living in households earning $75,000 also own them.”
Sliter, John R., ‘Techno-Risk – the Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything’ from a Criminal Information Sharing Perspective (September 9, 2012). 30th Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, England on September 5th, 2012. Available at SSRN. “The author has extensive law enforcement experience and the paper is intended to provoke thought on the use of …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has published a guide to help mobile application developers observe truth-in-advertising and basic privacy principles when marketing new mobile apps. The FTCs new publication, Marketing Your Mobile App: Get It Right from the Start, notes that there are general guidelines that all app developers should consider. They include: Tell …
eMarketer – Users turn to Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter itself to post pictures. “As the number of Twitter users grows, consumers are using the site to share photos, videos and other links with their followers. eMarketer forecasts that US adult Twitter users will reach 31.8 million in 2013, up 14.9% from the 27.7 million users …
A Behavioural Understanding of Privacy and its Implications for Privacy Law, Kirsty Hughes, University of Cambridge, September 2012. The Modern Law Review, Vol. 75, Issue 5, pp. 806-836, 2012 “This article draws upon social interaction theory (the work of Irwin Altman) to develop a theory of the right to privacy, which reflects the way that …
Politics on Social Networking Sites, by Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith. Sep 4, 2012: “A portion of social networking site users say the sites are important for some of their political activities and the way they decide how to engage with campaigns and issues. At the same time, most users of the sites say they do …
