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Movie Review: ‘Black Mass’ Succeeds Thanks to Depp’s Stellar Performance.
The highly anticipated gangster film Black Mass has been touted as a return to form for lead actor Johnny Depp and his performance did not disappoint. Unfortunately, most of the cast can’t match the heights of Depp’s rebound, and their …
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Social media and the Boston bombings
As the semester draws to a close and because we weren’t presented with new reading material to blog about, I would like to take this last week to talk about some current events: social media in regards to the Boston …
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Virtual interaction in a virtual school
Back in the good ‘ole days it was strange, odd, and even frowned upon to create relationships in an online environment. A majority of the folks on the interwebs were allegedly 60-year-0ld creepers posing as teenagers. Even if they weren’t, …
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Collaborative Learning: What Does It Mean To You?
This week we examined, “What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning’?” by Pierre Dillenbourg. Despite being doubtful of the contents due to two typos in the first line of the document, I pressed forward. Within the sixteen page piece, the …
Solitude in the Age of Technology: How the Internet Keeps us Constantly Connected
I’m an introvert. I’m alright being around people during the day… going about my day, enjoying school, classes, and socializing with people I encounter. But when I’m done with the days tasks, I reenergize by being alone. While fun every …
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Click! Why are there so many ads?
In response to the article, “Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain,” which was an incredible article with a whopping 15 authors, I’m using this week to recall two of my least favorite online spam and ad experiences.…
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Is all of our artificial intelligence?
The topic of my blog post last week surrounded Google as I focused on James Gleick’s article “How Google Dominates Us.” This week, I’m returning to the land of search queries once again with Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making …
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Google AdWords: making money off you
At first, the article “How Google Dominates Us” seemed like little more than a commercial for Google. I found myself getting roped in by how Google started, developed and grew. I didn’t realize how “search engines” worked before the invention …
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Yay or nay: graphic photos after tragedy
Written by Arielle Emmett, the article “Too Graphic?” describes journalism in regards to graphic photographs.
While it varies among news sources, generally journalists avoid graphic images in order to not offend viewers or readership, and out of respect to those …
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S.S. Minow sails again
The article A Vaster Wasteland gives a brief look at the past 50 years of television, told from the perspective of then-chairman of the Federal Communications Comission.
Newton N. Minow began his new job 50 years ago, where he …
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