Online Communication

Internet Incivility: Possibilities for Engaging Students?

Robert Eisinger | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Internet Free Speech, Online Communication, Hate Speech, Uncivil Speech, Higher Education, Hate Speech Online, Vitriol, Internet Incivility, Free Speech, College News
Robert Eisinger

I am not advocating banning or taxing uncivil speech, but I do question its value. As we encourage newspaper readership and civic engagement, we should also converse with our students about free speech, hate speech, and civility in general.

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Bumming Favors Off Big Brother

Maxwell Searcy | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Google, Walter Kirn, Online Communication, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Voyeurism, Facebook, High School News
Maxwell Searcy

With Americans spending as much time surfing the web (usually for YouTube videos of cats flushing toilets) as watching TV, we have to ask ourselves how this shift is affecting our real lives.

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What Is Your Opinion ... And Why Do We Care?

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Blogs, Online Blogs, Blog, Bloggers, Online Communication, Blogging, Communication, Healthy Living News
Jim Selman

Maybe ordinary conversation is all we've ever had or ever will have. Maybe blogging is just the latest way for connecting and conversing about life and what we're learning.

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Your Inbox, Your Self

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Facebook, Text Messaging, Online-Communication, Google Wave, Jav on Tech, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

Sometimes, a plain old e-mail -- not a text, not a tweet, not Facebook update, not a Wave -- is the safest, most personal, most liberating way to go.

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Google Wave RELEASED For Wider Testing (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, The Wave, Google Wave Demonstration Video, Social Networks, Open Source Initiative, Social Networking, Google Video, Google Wave Vidoe, Open Source, Google Wave Video, Google Photos, Online Communication, Google Wave Open Source, Google Apps, Google Wave Released, Google Wave, Video, Technology News

**See update and demonstration video below** Google Wave, a highly-anticipated new communication and collaboration tool, is being released to 100,0...

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