Tag Archives: Social computing

Rising narcissism among college students

By alex | Published: 3/2/2007
A psychological report that indicates that self-esteem programs have given us a generation of narcissists is getting a lot of attention in the media. The authors argue that decades of being told that “gosh darnit, people like them” has gone to the heads of today’s college students. Moreover, it seems social technologies encourage narcissism. Jean [...]
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Panveillance

By alex | Published: 3/1/2007
Kevin is playing with using his new helmet-cam to record his everyday experience. I did this a few years ago, trying to record an entire day, using a webcam and my laptop. Mine was, by necessity, shoulder-mounted, rather than head-mounted, which has its own advantages and disadvantages. The idea runs back to Mann’s sousveillance or [...]
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Who’s who?

By alex | Published: 10/15/2006
I keep getting the Marquis Who’s Who query letters, and I keep sending them updates to my life (e.g., I’m now at Quinnipiac University). But I also always feel a little cheesy. Does anyone actually buy or use these things any more? First, I know that many similar guides are are actually “just” scams. But [...]
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Columbia Course on Social Software

By alex | Published: 9/10/2005
Interesting syllabus for a course at Columbia’s Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education (found via weblogg-ed). They are also aggregating content, through the del.icio.us tag “ccte”. It’s not clear to me if they are also using del.icio.us to tag their own blog entries, though that would be a pretty effective way to go about things. [...]
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