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The Secret Politburo Meeting Behind China’s New Democracy Crackdown by Perry Link | NYRBlog | The Ne w York Review of Books

China’s scared of it’s people, and it’s answer is its policy on Internet access and publication. A few things that all this revolution is making me think: Obama’s presence has something to do with all of these uprisings (in Wisconsin … Continue reading

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Why We Should Quit Facebook

I started off enjoying Facebook because I could play some cheap version of Boggle or Scrabble online with friends, but I slowly realized that every moment I was online, someone could see me, and that was unnerving. Then, when students … Continue reading

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Using Twitter in Class

I’m really going to take a big jump and will try to use social media in all of my classes, but I’m not sure which ones are going to do the trick. I tried Facebook, but I don’t like the … Continue reading

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Are we really friends?

Networks, digital friends, online dating are all part of this new way of interacting with each other… through our computers. What’s going on here?

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