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Author Archives: jadeamurray
New Media: More Personal Than Ever
I’m fascinated by these personal shopping websites like ShoeDazzle.com and JustFab.com. They claim to offer personalized selections, each of which is a standard price. You simply answer a series of questions, choose preferences and options like color, type of shoe …
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Unwanted Advertisements: Where Is My Control As a Media Consumer
The little television that I do watch these days is via Hulu instant streaming, either via my computer or the Roku box connected to my television. The ad experience is “personalized;” it frequently asks if the present ad is relevant …
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School Testing via Computer vs. Person
My son had his first parent-teacher conference at school today. During the conference, the teacher shared the results of the newly implanted, computer-based standardized testing. These results are the baseline by which his later results will be compared against, as …
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What’s happened to mindfulness in the world of smartphones?
Several friends of mine frequently post motivational quotes, clip art, photos, and the like on their Facebook pages, myself included. My screensaver is actually a collection of images along these lines. The ironic thing is that, while we are finding …
The Internet Rumor Mill: There’s Plenty of Bacon
The Internet as a rumor mill is a potentially dangerous thing, particularly given the speed and permanence of once information is shared online. It is even more potentially troublesome when information is false; posting retractions, opposing viewpoints, even evidence that …
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Parents Posting: What about the Children’s Right to Privacy?
After 6 years of posting photos, videos, and stories about my children on social networking sites, I have to admit I have only ever been concerned about it in terms of safety. I have made sure to set my privacy …
9/11: A Convergent Media Tribute
Save for a group of students clustered around a TV cart in the breezeway, the campus was a ghost town as I walked home from my 8am biology class. I remember thinking it was strange that people were outside watching …
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Mindless Video Games versus Parental Sacrifice and Playing Pretend
My eldest child is turning six on Monday. My sister called me and said that the aunts and uncles are planning on going in on a gift together, how would he like a portable video game console (ok, she actually …
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Self-Imposed Media Technology Interventions: Learning Moderation
It seems like technology has been getting a bit of a bad rap lately. We’ve all been there, out to dinner with friends, excited to catch up on the aspects of their lives we didn’t already read about on Facebook …
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