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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has teamed up with Google Maps to bring visualization to the Crisis in Darfur . The Museums mapp...

The US Pentagon purchased 9,500 copies of a war memoir written by US Army Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer and subsequently burned them because they ...

Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the internet is a tool for political change in China. "Given the right circumstances, online citizens’ m...

In this video: Jesselyn Radack breaks down the truth about Wikileaks and its importance to free speech and the empowerment of American citiz...

tl;dr: On June 16th, 2010 Iceland’s parliament made history by unanimously passing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. This government in...

This was a class assignment, and sort of a self-portrait of my outrageously ordinary moments.

I went to Bonnaroo. It was wonderful. More on that in a moment. Look at this video I made on my way to the festival. Whoo! I'm actually ...

Kate Aronson Storytelling for New Media Adam Brackin April 27, 2010 KatesEpicStory Stories have been shared since humans muttered their fir...

If we are going to answer this question properly, we must first explore what the term "making it" actually entails. It could reall...

(The Secret ingredient is honey) As I was preparing to make tuna salad in my college apartment, I realized my mayonnaise had long since expi...

Is mobile technology fucking with society? Let me elaborate. I'm sitting at a trendy coffee shop in Houston, and as I look around I see ...

So I was at a Radio UTD dance party the other day, and like any other college radio station, Radio UTD has its fair share of hipsters . At s...

Passion Pit Manners Rating: 8.5/10 RIYL: Phoenix, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Deerhoof Experts say that fashion trends come in wav...

I was watching the Texas/Nebraska game, and two supposedly "indie" (or what I considered indie) songs came on the television.

When you enter "Frank Yang" into the search bar of YouTube, the site returns amateur videos of hardcore workout sessions. But don...

The Grey Album was a mash-up album made by DJ Danger Mouse released in 2004. The album features a cappella samples of Jay-Z's Black Albu...

It is a ripe Rhode Island morning. Three-Fourths of the Griffin men are present at the kitchen table. Dog and writer/actor Brian begin to re...

You? Me? My dog? Okay, Facebook doesn't technically own any of us. If we want to get philosophical, we can say nobody really owns anyth...

Neutral Milk Hotel is generally highly regarded in the music world. Pitchfork , one of the most critical music publication even rated their ...

I've always believed honey has medicinal properties. I've sipped honey when I suffered a sore throat, I have rubbed honey into burn...

Twitter, a simplistic microblogging/social networking site, focuses its 140-character posts around the simple question "what are you do...

As we've learned in class, Wikipedia participants are generally quite adamant on sticking to the rules of the game. Wikipedia as a colle...

How can a company be so popular and still have no discernible revenue? Social networking and communication was revolutionized by the birth o...

Why did Danger Mouse get in so much trouble and Girl Talk is free to throw mix-tapes dance parties?

Free worked for for sometime, but the economic model of free doesn't hold as much weight if most porducts fit the bill. As soon as you k...

Nicolas Carr argues that the internet is diminishing our intelligence. He states that our use of the internet fails to foster analytical re...

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, recently made commented on FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's announcement concerning a free and ope...

A democratic government is defined my Wikipedia as a form government in which state-power is held by the majority of citizens within a count...

Groupthink was a term coined by William H. Whyte in 1952 in Fortune Magazine and studied by Yale Psychologist Irving L. Janis. It is a term...

Not really, but according to Matthew Moore's article in Telegraph there are fifty things (and counting) that are being killed by the in...

My personal career goals include the fields of marketing and advertising. Social media can be an important tool in these realms of business....

In his article, Keen made many arguments highlighting his distaste for uneducated and opinionated communicators who generally have little c...

What do you think? Is the internet dumbing us down? Carr argues that the simplicity and ease of information gathering via Google (and every ...

Sitting down to read for forty minutes was quite a freeing experience. I noticed yesterday that my extensive use of the internet has honed m...