Mishne WHAT IS TWITTER? TWITTER AS CULTURAL PHENOMENON Some 15% of online adults use Twitter as of February 2012, and 8% do so on a typical day. Although overall Twitter usage has nearly doubled since the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project first asked a stand-alone Twitter question in November 2010, the 15% of online adults who use Twitter as of early 2012 is similar to the 13% of such adults who did so in May 2011. At the same time, the proportion of online adults
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Why is client’s participation in social work so important? And which role can the university play to get the involvement of social service’s users? Examples from Zaragoza in Spain Tomasa Báñez, University of Zaragoza 1) Introduction With my presentation I would like encourage you about the importance of clients’ participation in social work and to present an experience of community work done using participatory action research methodology in Zaragoza (Spain). In the first place, I will present some
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communication alienate people? „Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.” I found a whole lot of such remarkable maxims in Internet when I wrote “communication+proverb” in Google but this quote by John A. Piece really impressed me. It clearly shows that the need of communication is of a great importance in our life because we are “social animals” so we cannot exist effectively without developing specific communication skills. That’s why communicating
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more than ever. Most of them have Internet access, which they use to send and receive email, instant messages, live chat, and more. Rarely do they stop to think about how harmful the Internet can be, such as exposure to pornography, identity theft, or cyber-bullying. Not only are they exposed to certain things but also the Internet affects a teenager’s social life, mental health and physical health. Over usage of the Internet can quickly lead to internet addiction, which will ultimately
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Mass media refers to communication devices, which can be used to communicate and interact with a large number of audiences in different languages. Be it the pictorial messages of the early ages, or the high-technology media that are available today, one thing that we all agree upon, is that mass media are an inseparable part of our lives. Entertainment and media always go hand in hand, but in addition to the entertainment, mass media also remain to be an effective medium for communication, dissemination
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of the internet or other electronic devices like children and adolescents do today. Those generations actually sat down to read a book, while teens and children of today skim over what they are given to read, or look it up on the internet. In Nicholas Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, He talks about how society has progressed from technology and also how it makes people lazy. Instead of hours of research and actually learning about a topic, students can use the internet and find
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Another issue in education is the use of technology. I am not saying that technology is a bad thing, in fact it can be a great thing when it comes to education. Technology has brought many assets in education. Although technology has brought learning to life for many students, it also presents challenges. Technology use is changing how people communicate and learn, how they approach learning and how they process information. But I think there are three reasons to worry. Reason one, the technology will
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Social Media and Online Predators Although there are many benefits of using social media, there are also many dangers. One of those dangers is the vast number of sexual predators that lurk in the midst of the cyber-world. The internet is not such a friendly environment when it comes to online sexual predators. As more and more individuals gain access to social media networking sites, the easier it becomes for online predators to victimize them. According to Richard M. Guo, “an online sexual
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1.The Internet and the increased usages of wireless computing and handheld devices have increased new perspectives concerning consumer privacy in today’s dynamic informational society. Because we rely so much on our smart phones, cellular service, quality control regarding our security is essential. When our privacy is breached it can be jeopardizing because we have so much information on our devices that it can be harmful to our life or that of our company. The security
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will go through in their extended life. This process is called Information Lifecycle. Information Lifecycle had been divided to five phases which is creation, distribution, use, maintenance and disposition. .All of information is been through this process is to ensure that there is no cases such as information overload or information explosion. The information life cycle is a concept in common use. It indicates that informations are not static, but have a life similar to that of biological organisms:
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