Author Archives: Simon Sachakov

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

Over the past couple of years we have heard a lot about media literacy and how the Internet makes intellectual property theft and redistribution of ideas, games, music, movies, and invention schematics extremely easy. The thing that makes it easy … Continue reading

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Folksonomy

Folksonomy also known as collaborative tagging is derived from the collaborative collection of information about individuals and is really big problem today. The reason Folksonomy is such a big problem today is because there are site like Google, yahoo, amazon, … Continue reading

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Brian Martin’s Politics of Research

According to Brian Martin’s politics of research he stated that the vast majority of information is quite limited for individuals out of a specific sphere or area of expertise. Which makes it harder to acquire for certain individuals, he also … Continue reading

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Online Privacy and Facebook Privacy

With the ever increasing use of the internet and storing information online comes a directly correlated loss of privacy. In today’s day and age when everyone’s shopping history, credit card info, social security numbers, usernames, and passwords are stored online … Continue reading

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Reading Response to Serona Elton’s Love for Labels

In Serona Elton’s Love for Labels article she states that it is incredibly difficult for an individual artist to get their music out there and that it’s even harder if the artist doesn’t know the marketing steps to take to … Continue reading

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Re: Filter Bubble- Google Should End This

Thanks to Professor Beilin’s lecture on February 6th I was introduced to something that I was not aware of called the google filter bubble in which an individual’s personal search is tailored to what he/she has searched for in the … Continue reading

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Cofee House Post

After reading “Back to the coffee house” I was surprised to find out that much of how we received our information on a daily basis has changed from being word of mouth to being presented in a digital medium. Another … Continue reading

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