4/20 & 4/22 Presentations

Mark M.~ Topic: Online enabled environment awareness and how cyberspace and online communities are two major tools that help the environment today. You have a good example with the iphone app icosnoop. I think this would be a suitable topic to describe where we are currently with technology, and how these sorts off apps help to raise more awareness because more people carry mobile technology where ever they go.

Sarah F.~ Argument: People portray themselves differently depending on which type of social network they interact in. Chatroulette vs. Facebook is a great example of how people may act differently when presented with a random/anonymous encounter(chatroulette)rather than interacting with an audience of 200+ people(facebook). The two are completely different social spaces and chatroulette provides more freedom to its users due to privacy.

Cassie L.~ Topic: Social network sites and the classroom. I liked your example of areallydifferentplace.com that a teacher created for her students to interact through blogging. I thought it might be interesting to research if there has been studies that prove your theory that blogging helps children develop better writing/typing skills.

Dena L.~ Topic: Social networking and limited privacy. You talked about how privacy regulation is hard to acquire on a global scale and many issues are occurring because there's hardly any laws to protect users. What really interested me the most was the cyberbullying, and why our youth is not protected. Maybe you can focus on why this is becoming a problem, and what will continue to happen if we don't take steps to do something about this issue now.

Michelle A.~ Topic: Interfaces help to create seamless transition from real to virtual and soon they will appear blended. You had some excellent examples of how computers are becoming more and more humanized and I liked your example of business's interacting in secondlife and how people are comfortable in a 3-D environment because it is a repeat of what we see in real life. Last semester I met for a conference in secondlife on the WSU campus in Pullman! I can see this becoming more and more popular in the future.

Brittany B.~ Topic: Mobile location based marketing/advertising. I liked your subject of location based games/Apps and how people are less concerned with privacy. I also like how added in the con of this with your example of the site pleaserobme.com, where people are against Apps like this because your location is always known and you become vulnerable to criminals.

Mark B.~ Topic: World of War Craft and how changes to the game force users to rely on other web sources to learn the game. I think you provided good examples of the need for social interaction in gaming in order to grow and learn from each other. Removing challenges reduces the need and ability to learn which has always been needed in gaming.

Kristopher M.~ Topic: Even if everyone gets online there will still be a divide. I liked the subject of fragmented identities and how people will still be out casted based on their technological tool. Made me think of cheap vs. trendy cellphones and depending on what you have still determines your wealth/status within a community. I liked your example of access to different information based on your location, such as the monitoring of Internet in China and the limited amount of information they are able to view.