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Link roundup for February 23, 2008

Posted: February 23rd, 2008 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | 1 Comment »

N.Y. lawmakers announce social-networking safety legislation | The Social – CNET News.com

In other words, targeting sex offenders and MySpace, and using “To Catch a Predator” as evidence.

(tags: teenagers socialnetworking moralpanic onlinepredators myspace)

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Alice E. Marwick (alicetiara) is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, where she teaches classes on social media and digital culture. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA, where she worked closely with danah boyd studying social software. She received her PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2010. Her new book, Status Update: Celebrity and Attention in Social Media (Yale University Press 2013), examines how people use social media to boost social status, focusing on life-streaming, micro-celebrity, and self-branding. This blog focuses on academic work, technology, pop culture, communication, and media studies. (I spend more time on Twitter than anywhere else.)