The End of the World As We Know It Part II

by Ruby Patel
            Earlier this year, our UW class discussed stakes involved with the internet and its growing shift of users becoming producers of knowledge. One of the points that were discussed was truth and how truth may not be portrayed to the internet. The fear was that internet websites might present false information to [...]

Another Post About Facebook!

by Ruby Patel
            I know that our class blog has almost exhausted the topic of Facebook, but after scanning the internet, I was inspired to write one more post regarding this beast. It is a safe assumption that almost every person between adolescents and middle age has a Facebook. While searching the web, I came [...]

Web Medicine

by Ruby Patel
In this day and age the internet has gained such a string hold over our lives that it is safe to say that no aspect goes unaffected by some aspect of the web and cyberspace. On the subject of medicine, Web 1.0 has long been providing information. For examples web sites such as [...]

Saving Time is Part of Our Culture

by Ruby Patel
Internet culture is most characterized by internet lingo. Now when discussing internet lingo I am referring to the shorthand and special language that floods any type of web conversation. I think that the internet and cyberspace are about convenience: convenience in communication, of bringing people together, and of interaction. Internet culture has grown [...]

Neighbors confronting neighbors….over the internet…

I saw on the news a few days ago a story about a website called, rottenneighbor.com.  On the website you can complain about neighbors, rave about fantastic neighbors and more.  If you go on the website, you can type in your own address and a google satelitte map will appear and you can see if [...]

Live Suicide Broadcasting On the Internet

By Zaid Shuhaibar
In researching for the final project, I came across an article entitled Police investigate ‘live suicide on internet that really grasped my attention. According to the article, a teenager from the city of Pembroke Pines broadcasted his suicide through online message boards and a website, Justin.tv, that allows surfers to transmit their own TV [...]

“Cyberscams Befriend Social Networks”

By Taylor Gould
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27823515/
MSNBC has recently published an article addressing the concern that Facebook (and other social-networking sites’) users should have when becoming friends with other individuals online. Karina Wells, an Australian citizen, was virtually approached by an individual who assumed the identity of one of her friends, attempting to create a case for necessary monetary [...]

Xbox 360 Introduces new Avatar Interface- Will the Gaming Community Welcome More Web 2.0 Communication?

By Taylor Gould
MSNBC recently published an article regarding the new communications and social interaction system that Microsoft has designed for the Xbox 360. As stated in the article, this interface requires the user to create an avatar or individual that represents the gamer. This avatar may be used within the gaming community so that the [...]

Supercomputers used to model weapons of nuclear war now model World of Warcraft

By Hannah Ringheim
For many years, the United States and other western governments have been using supercomputers to model weapons of nuclear war, and now, it is known that a company in China uses these machines to create fantasy realms of World of Warcraft.  These “supercomputers” are up to a million times faster than the average [...]

Tracking Hate 2.0 on the Web

By Hannah Ringheim
According to a recent Congressional briefing titled “Hate in the Information Age,” it was brought up in statistics and discussion the overwhelming number of hate and terror sites and web postings online today, and how it currently is still fluctuating.  One statistic presented 8,000 problematic sites in the last 12 months that displayed [...]