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Picking Up Your Final Projects
If you would like to pick up your final project, please email me. I will be out of town until January 3. If I’ve received an email from you, I’ll leave a copy of your project in an envelope at the reference desk.
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Interesting Talk about Fashion and Intellectual Property
The speaker in this presentation is Johanna Blakeley, who is based at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.
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Submitting the Same Paper Twice
In light of today’s class discussion about whether or not it was right for a student to submit a previously written paper in another class, I thought I’d note that Baruch’s academic honesty policy forbids this practice:
Cheating is the attempted or unauthorized use of materials, information, notes, study aids, devices or communication during an academic exercise. Examples include:
- Copying from another student during an examination or allowing another to copy your work.
- Unauthorized collaborating on a take home assignment or examination.
- Using unauthorized notes during a closed book examination.
- Taking an examination for another student.
- Asking or allowing another student to take an examination for you.
- Changing a corrected exam and returning it for more credit.
- Submitting substantial portions of the same paper to two classes without consulting the second instructor.
- Preparing answers or writing notes in a blue book (exam booklet) before an examination.
- Allowing others to research and write assigned papers including the use of commercial term paper services.
Read the full academic honesty policy here.
Baruch College. “Academic Honesty.” Baruch College. Baruch College, 2002. Web. 6 Dec. 2010.
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Info about Inside Job
Tomorrow, (Tuesday, December 7), we’ll be going to the Angelika Film Center to see the 12:55 pm showing of “Inside Job,” a documentary about the financial meltdown of 2007.
Directions to the Angelika Film Center
- Get on one of the cars at the front of the downtown 6 train at 23rd Street.
- Get off at the Bleecker Street station.
- Walk to platform exit by the front of the train, which leads you to a transfer to the F train and, more importantly, to an exit one block from the theater; keep walking through the station heading to the exit labeled “NE corner of Broadway and Houston).
- When you come up out of the exit at the NE corner of Broadway and Houston, cross Broadway, walk past the Crate and Barrel, and the Anglika Film Center should be right there on Houston (at the corner or Mercer Street)
- Here’s a map showing the exact location of the theater.
Information about the Movie
Reviews
- Scott, A.O. “Inside Job.” New York Times. New York Times, 7 Oct. 2010. Web. 6 Dec. 2010.
Official Website
- Inside Job – Movie Website for the Documentary Film. Sony Pictures, 2010. Web. 6 Dec. 2010.
- Definitely check out the definitions of finance jargon that the movie studio provides!
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In-Class Activity: MLA Citations
Here is how I did the MLA citations for the classroom activity yesterday:
1. This book by Lawrence Lessig
Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. Print.
2. This article from a database
Yardi, Sarita, and Danah Boyd. “Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization Over Time on Twitter.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 30.5 (2010): 316-327. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.
3. This article from an open access journal
Boyd, Danah M. and Nicole B. Ellison. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship.” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 13.1 (2007): n. pag. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.
NewYorkPublicLibrary. The New York World’s Fair, 1939-40 – Treasures of The New York Public Library. 1 Oct. 2008. YouTube. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.
5. This page from the Facebook website
Facebook. “Facebook’s Privacy Policy.” Facebook. Facebook, 5 Oct. 2010. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.
Sisario, Ben. “U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown.” New York Times. New York Times, 26 Nov. 2010. Web. 30 Nov. 2010.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Amazing Series on Online Privacy
If you’re at all interested in privacy issues on the web, you’d do well to take a look at some of the articles in this series from the Wall Street Journal: “Your Privacy Online – What They Know.”
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Find Out What You’re Sharing in Facebook
For those of you doing research questions relating to privacy and social networking sites, you will definitely want to take a look at this I Shared What?!? service that is reviewed and linked to on this blog post at ReadWriteWeb.
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Bullying and Cyberbullying
A researcher at Microsoft, danah boyd, has a nice blog post this week about bullying. She makes a point of noting that the bullying we’ve seen recently in online social networks is not reflective of a technology problem but instead a larger social one. Boyd introduces her post this way:
The cultural logic underpinning bullying is far more complex than most adults realize. And technology is not radically changing what’s happening; it’s simply making what’s happening far more visible. If we want to combat bullying, we need to start by understanding the underlying dynamics. And we need to approach interventions with an evaluation-based mindset. We won’t know how to stop bullying and no amount of legislation requiring education is going to do squat until we actually find intervention mechanisms that work. And that starts with understanding what’s happening.
For those of you doing research questions relating to cyberbullying or gossip,you might find this post especially interesting.
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Some Questions Still Need Comments
You guys have been doing a great job with your comments so far. I really appreciate the close reading of the questions, and all the comments about the need for more precise language.
Some of the research questions posted on earlier pages of the blog haven’t been commented on yet. Lend a hand by posting your thoughts on any of these blog posts from:
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More on Facebook and The Social Network
Did you like our screening of The Social Network yesterday? Then you might be interested in these:
- David Denby’s review of the movie in The New Yorker (4 October 2010)
- A profile in The New Yorker of Mark Zuckerberg in which he talks about the movie (20 September 2010)
- A book review published in The New York Review of Books by novelist Zadie Smith in which she talks about the movie and Facebook in general (25 November 2010)
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