A post to Web4lib alerted me to this U Mich survey about libraries in social networks (blog post) that finds 77% of students don’t care for or want libraries in Facebook or MySpace.
the biggest reason being that they feel the current methods (in-person, email, IM) are more than sufficient. 14% said no because they [...]

Posted January 17, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: facebook, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, myspace, social networks, social software. 2 Comments.

NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety
As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.

Posted November 6, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: children, education, facebook, internet, myspace, public schools, safety, social software. Be the first one.

The Associated Press reports a composite nude posted to facebook has earned a UNH student a restraining order:
A University of New Hampshire student got a temporary restraining order against another student who combined an image of her face with an explicit photo of another woman’s body, then posted the composite on his Facebook page.
A judge [...]

Posted May 24, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: college student, facebook, nude photo, restraining order, stalking. Be the first one.

Without contradicting the moral weight of social software post from last week, let’s take a moment to look at three stories from Arstechnica about MySpace and others: online video leads to teen arrests, shooting rampage avoided due to MySpace posting, and Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble.
These are the stories we’ve come to expect: [...]

Posted April 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: embarrassing, facebook, moral responsibility, myspace, online policing, playground, privacy, public forums, social internet, social software, youth. Be the first one.

Danah Boyd posted recently at Many-to-Many about the future of social software. I’ve been more than a little bit gung ho on web 2.0 for a while, but I do like her caution:
If MySpace falters in the next 1-2 years, it will be because of this moral panic. Before all of you competitors get motivated [...]

Posted April 18, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: danah boyd, facebook, friendster, moral responsibility, myspace, responsible application development, responsible web design, social internet, social software, web 2.0. One Comment.

Lichen pointed me to this Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette post about new technologies:
Keep up to date with new technologies that you can co-opt for library use. So what if no one will ever listen to the pod casts of your bibliographic instruction lectures, subscribe to the RSS feeds from your library’s blog, send your reference [...]

Posted January 30, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: academia, durable links, facebook, future libraries, information behavior, internet and academia, internet and society, libraries, library, myspace, social internet, social software. 14 Comments.