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EU officials warned social networking and search engine sites such as Facebook and Google on Monday to better protect consumer rights amid growing concern that users are being lured to hand over too much personal data.

A University of Kansas professor is researching details of relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential.

Mar 29, 2009 10:49 pm US/Central You can be infected by simply visiting your favorite Web site, or just by leaving your computer on, overnight while you’re asleep.

Police in Brunswick, Georgia were able to solve a robbery in a few hours thanks to tips found through the social networking site Facebook.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp plans to hire former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller to supervise the media conglomerate’s digital strategy, two News Corp-owned media outlets reported Friday night.

The social networking system says it’s finally ready to sell an upgraded version of Twitter to businesses.

New ways of consuming news, information visualization, age differences in Internet adoption, and the failure of traditional advertising on the Web, are just some of the hot topics George Siemens navigates through in this Media Literacy Digest issue.

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The information cycle - creation, dissemination, validation, sharing, re-creation - has been altered. It is more open, more participatory, and less under the control of distributors (such as journals, newspapers, and mainstream media).

With many printed newspapers switching to online editions to survive the economic crisis and, broadly speaking, with traditional media inadequacy to provide a balanced and interest-free news service, what is the future of news delivery and consuming?

Social media is the key, as it will serve as a sensemaking tool to filter out of the incoming tsunami of data what is not relevant for you while allowing you to create and redistribute your own personalized news streams.

The only problem with such an approach is that we may reduce our critical aptitude, selecting and accessing only the information we agree with. But even under the threat of such negative consequences, George Siemens believes a networked approach is the best way to overcome the decadence of traditional media.

If you want to explore how new technologies are changing our society and the impact new media has on the educational landscape, this weekly Media Literacy Digest, systematically showcases pointers, facts and resources to help you analyze and make sense of the communication revolution we are going through.

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Police have charged a 17-year-old Central New York boy with messaging a sexually explicit video to a 13-year-old girl’s cell phone after striking up a relationship on a social networking site.

Social media tools like Facebook and Twitter are becoming more and more popular.

New education paradigms suggest you get rid of all pre-packaged, fixed approaches in learning, and develop your skills to adapt to as many different needs and situations as possible. Learning to be flexible has indeed become a key resource.

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“[…] give up the idea that competence must exist within the person and expand our view that whenever possible it should be built into the situation - Gloria Gery“

Back in 2004, Jay Cross already championed a different learning approach. He observed that while in the old days you just had to play a fixed role and follow a precise path, in 21th Century you “perform without a script. Everything’s impromptu“.

That’s what you need to realize. Your skills, what you need to do, is not to specialize in something, and follow the same modus operandi for the rest of your life. The real competence you want to learn is instead to harmonize yourself with different contexts, just as a fluid adapts its shape to the container it’s poured.

Here’s Jay Cross sharing his original view:

Caption: Madonna departs the Kabbalah Centre with her son Rocco Ritchie New York City, USA …. Click for the MADONNA Gallery Pop superstar MADONNA stunned fans after taking over her manager’s online Twitter account on Wednesday to declare she is “glad” to have divorced GUY RITCHIE.

Beware … police have urged women to beware of a man using this Facebook profile picture.

Candidates battling in New York’s 20th Congressional District are working hard in the last days of the race to make sure their supporters vote.