Monthly Archives: February 2013

“What’s the Word” Turns Into “What in the World!”

Posted on February 20, 2013 by dpetruch57

I love the new trendy App, What’s the Word. It’s a game that displays four pictures and you have to decipher what word connects the pictures. I got stuck on an answer, so I naturally did what anyone would do… …

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Is “Fair Use” Actually Fair?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by patrickdougall

Copyright is a legal notion, enacted by most governments, which give the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it for a specified amount of time. Fair use is the term for the qualifications one must meet in order …

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Iphone Vs. Google Eyeglasses?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by v.king

In the red corner we have Apple putting in one of their most popular contenders the Iphone 5 weighing in at 112 grams with a net worth ranging over millions of dollars. In the blue corner we have Google…and their …

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Are We Too Dependent On New Technology?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by vtindall1

New technology is extremely pervasive in today’s society; everyone has smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.., and more and more people use mobile banking and even mobile learning. I have noticed that since getting a smart phone and an iPad, I …

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The Six Steps to a Better Communications System

Posted on February 20, 2013 by brimacnaught

Throughout Newton N. Minow’s article “A Vaster Wasteland”, I continually found myself nodding my head and agreeing with his six steps to transform the immense wasteland our media has become. His six steps in summary were to expand freedom, use …

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Reading… A Thing of the Past?

Posted on February 19, 2013 by allieotter1

Just recently I began to read the last installment of the Twilight series. Being that this is the only Twilight book I have yet to read, I was pretty darn excited about it. I sat down and began to read …

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Google blamed for giving consumers what they want

Posted on February 19, 2013 by julysanchez

 

Is Google really even the problem, should it be blamed for when it comes to news media and other similar tools not succeeding? Google shouldn’t take the heat for being smart and simply giving people what they want. After …

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Profit over good quality news

Posted on February 19, 2013 by julysanchez

  

In the article learning to love the new media, old journalism seems to be losing to our new technology ways. Every day it becomes less serious and about important stories and more about the now. As a nation we seem …

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How do you Google?

Posted on February 19, 2013 by jujubee730

In Peter Osnos article What’s a Fair Share in the Age of Google? He pointed out within five years of Google’s introduction to the world, “Google was a verb”. I didn’t really put much though into how much I used …

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The Positives of a Open World Wide Web

Posted on February 19, 2013 by christine_p

To be honest I did not know there was a difference between the internet and the web for quite a while.  From what I have learned the Internet is a medium which accompanies the World Wide Web.  The internet is …

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