Category «Internet»

Social Networking, Race and Ethnicity

Mercurynews.com, Facebook releases first-ever demographic look at users: “Illustrating the growing diversity of online users as the Internet matures, a study by Facebook researchers found that about 11 percent of the social network’s approximately 100 million U.S. members were African-American, about 9 percent were Latino and 6 percent were Asian, according to a post on …

Subjects: Internet

"Creative Destruction" or Just "Destruction", How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?

“The Federal Trade Commission will hold two days of workshops on December 1 and 2, 2009, to explore how the Internet has affected journalism. The workshop will assemble representatives from print, online, broadcast and cable news organizations, academics, consumer advocates, bloggers, and other new media representatives.” Opening Remarks of Chairman Jon Leibowitz “Creative Destruction” or …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

New on LLRX.com – Access to Social Websites in The Legal Environment – Fall 2009

Access to Social Websites in The Legal Environment – Fall 2009 – Part 1: Survey of Law Librarians in Selected Firms, County/State Law Libraries and Law Schools. To ascertain the current use of social websites/media in law firms, a survey was conducted among Law Librarians entitled Computer Use in Your Organization. In addition to the …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing

FCC: Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape

Federal Communications Commission, Notice of inquiry, November 23, 2009: “This document seeks comment on how to empower parents to help their children take advantage of the opportunities offered by evolving electronic media technologies while at the same time protecting children from the risks inherent in use of these technologies. It asks for comment about the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

World Wide Web Foundation Launches Global Operations

News release: “World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the Web to empower people, announced the launch of global operations including the existence of its first projects. Speaking at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a Web Foundation board member, unveiled the organization’s …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows

Cognitive control in media multitaskers – Eyal Ophira, Clifford Nassb, and Anthony D. Wagnerc, Symbolic Systems Program and Department of Communication, and Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University “Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

The Application Usage and Risk Report – An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise

The Application Usage and Risk Report – An Analysis of End User Application Trends in the Enterprise, Fall Edition 2009, Palo Alto Networks: “Social networking, blogging/microblogging, cloud-based productivity and collaborative applications are just a few of the applications that are making the cross over from personal to corporate use as a means of improving productivity. …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Wiki

Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law

Protectionism Online: Internet Censorship and International Trade Law, ECIPE [European Centre for International Political Economy] Working Paper No. 12/2009, By Brian Hindley, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama “This paper suggests that many W TO member states are legally obliged to permit an unrestricted supply of cross- border Internet services. And as the option to selectively censor rather than …

Subjects: Censorship, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management