Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
‘Anti-Facebook’ platform Ello attracts thousands
Ello’s manifesto says it won’t track your info and send it to advertisers. If you don’t say you agree, it sends you to Facebook.
http://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-create-manage-facebook-business-page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
The dimensions for your cover image should be a minimum of 851 pixels wide by 315 pixels tall.
If Facebook can tweak our emotions and make us vote, what else can it do?
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-calls-experiment-innovative-2014-7#ixzz36PtsxVfL
Google’s chief executive has expressed concern that we don’t trust big companies with our data – but may be dismayed at Facebook’s latest venture into manipulation
Please consider the information on Power, Privacy, and the Internet and details on ethics and big data in this IMS blog entry:https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/07/01/privacy-and-surveillance-obama-advisor-john-podesta-every-country-has-a-history-of-going-over-the-line/
important information:
Please consider the SCSU Research Ethics and the IRB (Institutional Review Board) document:
http://www.stcloudstate.edu/graduatestudies/current/culmProject/documents/ResearchEthicsandQualitative–IRBPresentationforGradStudentsv2.2011.pdf
For more information, please contact the SCSU Institutional Review Board : http://www.stcloudstate.edu/irb/default.asp
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/the-facebook-conundrum-where-ethics-and-science-collide
The field of learning analytics isn’t just about advancing the understanding of learning. It’s also being applied in efforts to try to influence and predict student behavior.
Learning analytics has yet to demonstrate its big beneficial breakthrough, its “penicillin,” in the words of Reich. Nor has there been a big ethical failure to creep lots of people out.
“There’s a difference,” Pistilli says, “between what we can do and what we should do.”
Does anybody remember Vine? Still using it?
There is a hype in the last several weeks about a new app: Yo http://www.justyo.co/
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-falter-and-future-of-yo-2014-6
Do you use Yo? How?
What will be the future of Yo, you think?
Once again, the real winner here is Facebook, Pinterest may be able to challenge it soon though, as it is now driving just over a third of the traffic Facebook is.
#techworkshop important shifts in #SocialMedia : #WhatsApp ahead of #Facebook in #SocialMessaging @SCSULIB 290 http://ow.ly/ryL7P
FaceBook is the giant in social networking but WhatsApp has taken the lead in social messaging on mobile
Some 13-Year-Olds Tell Us Why They Think Facebook Stinks
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-tweens-and-teens-think-facebook-stinks-2013-11#ixzz2jcxYYSSr
now that he has a phone, he would rather check out other cooler options, like Snapchat, Vine, and Instagram.
words are less important than images and videos
“I wouldn’t de-activate,” Aidan said. “It’s still a way to connect, I just won’t check it often.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/22/1099120054/pandemic-virtual-workouts
Police continue to use social media in questionable ways to monitor and track down protestors in photos and videos, according to a new report.
Manufactured social media profiles, not linked to any real person, are theoretically a violation of Facebook’s authenticity policy.
this infographic from the European Association for Viewers Interests which took me on a tour of ten types of misleading news—propaganda, clickbait, sponsored content, satire and hoax, error, partisan, conspiracy theory, pseudoscience, misinformation and bogus information.