While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). This is the first talk from TED@State, produced in cooperation with the US State Department.
[Source: TED]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Some of the oldest scholarly journals are setting up pages on social-networking sites like Facebook. The latest is The New England Journal of Medicine, The Boston Globe reports.
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A question about whether Facebook use has any impact in college students’ grades continues to create debate.
A small study presented at an education conference last month showed a link between Facebook use and lower grades — but stressed that the findings don’t prove that one leads to the other. It unleashed a media frenzy across the globe.
Now, a new study, published this week, finds the two variables are “likely unrelated.”
[Source: USA Today]
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