Author: mtadros

– delete: forgetting in the digital age

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Sounds like a great book because the idea behind it is great. I will read it and then post here what I think of it. First time I ever see a book trailer. 🙂 The book is Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, published by Princeton Univ. Press. [link]

Here is what it says about it:

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we’ve searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all.

Perfect.

– citation game

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Rutgers is doing a great job on that. Plagirism is big especially with the Internet now and the availability of information without much ado – so here are Rutgers’ games:

Link 1 http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html

Great to play with students AND faculty.

Is plagiarism in the eye of the beholder?

Another is on how to write a research paper, evaluate sources and create citations:

http://www.ub.ntnu.no/viko/en/start.php

– information literacy UNESCO-funded project

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Link: http://www.infolitglobal.info/directory/en/

“The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions ( IFLA) created a database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.

Librarians, educators and information professionals are invited to participate. If you have developed information literacy materials and would like to share them with the world community, please submit the required data.”

– mapping the arabic blogosphere

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A study at the Berkman Center at Harvard came out in June 09 entitled “Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Culture, Politics and Dissent“. [link to the report]

Here are some of the key findings:

The Arabic blogosphere is organized primarily around countries. We found the primary groupings to be: Egyptian (largest, with distinct sub- and associated clusters, e.g., Muslim Brotherhood bloggers, including some women); Saudi Arabian (second largest and focused comparatively more on technology than politics); Kuwaiti (divided into English and Arabic language sub-clusters); Levantine/English Bridge (bloggers in the Levant and Iraq using English and connected to the US and international blogospheres); Syrian; Maghrebi/French Bridge; and Religion-Focused. Demographic results indicate that Arabic bloggers are predominately young and male. The highest proportion of female bloggers is found in the Egyptian youth sub-cluster, while the Syrian and Muslim Brotherhood clusters have the highest concentration of males. Arabic media ecosystem: Bloggers link to Web 2.0 sites like YouTube and Wikipedia (English and Arabic versions) more than other sources of information and news available on the Internet. Al-Jazeera is the top mainstream media source, followed by the BBC and Al-Arabiya. Arabic bloggers tend to prefer more politically oriented YouTube videos over cultural ones.

In addition, the Berkman Center organized a workshop entitled Online Discussions in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths.

Watch the live webcast here at 10 AM ET: http://origin.usip.org/arabblogs/.