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Virtual Community: Can We Survive It?

Nancy Colier | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Isolation, Connection, Well-Being, Virtual, Community, On-Line, Video Game, Sims, Simulated Characters, Technology, Wellness, Family, Belonging, School, Unplug and Recharge, Healthy Living News
Nancy Colier

Because we know that we can always get on Facebook, or tweet or text, the very manner in which we are interacting in the physical world has changed. We are less engaged and less committed, less dependent upon this moment of being together for connection and emotional nourishment.

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Do You 'Like' Me?

James M. Lynch | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Linkedin, New York, Social Networking, Farmville, Popularity, Facebook, Culture, Friendship, Social Media, Hashtags, Virtual, Marketing, Youtube, Catholic School, Society, Facebook Like, Culture News
James M. Lynch

I still remember my grade school days of the '60s at Our Holy Redeemer Catholic school in Freeport, Long Island, when a girl would pay a little attent...

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The Computer As Art Medium

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Installation, Sculpture, Design, Kinetic, Innovation, Media, Medium, University, Art, Designer, Virtual, Digital, Artist, crane.tv, Building, Communication, Berlin, Art+Com, Joachim Sauter, Arts News
Constantin Bjerke

"Every medium has a way to communicate and our mission statement was at all times to figure out how we can com...

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The Rise Of The Virtual Cyborg

Bill Liao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Expenses, Virtual, Cyborg, Virtual Cyborg, Computers, Technology, Inconvenience, Technology Convenience, Technology News
Bill Liao

Inconvenience comes in many shapes and sizes and alongside hypocrisy being inconvenienced appears to be considered a modern day deadly sins.

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A Conversation With Your Cellphone

Claire Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mushon Zer-Aviv, Content, Virtual, Digital, Liveness, Conversation, Real, Danah Boyd, Unplug and Recharge, Phillip Auslander, Healthy Living News
Claire Gordon

Digital media use can sometimes graze the edge of social acceptability, but as digital and analogue life become evermore integrated, the protocols get blurry.

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Digital Immortality and Death 2.0

Scott Lachut | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Death 2.0, Web 2.0, Psfk, Customs, Immortality, Virtual, Digital, Death, Real, Culture, Healthy Living News
Scott Lachut

Particularly in the case of social media, when taken together the multitude of eternal digital data forms a history of a person's life.

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