Tag Archives: social networks

Is There Evidence Free-Ranging on Facebook is Bad for Tweens?

By admin | Published: June 12, 2012

Emily Bazelon at Slate thinks that the suggestion this week that Facebook may open up to under-13 year olds would be a bad idea. As regular readers can imagine, I disagree. however, Bazelon has been one of the more thoughtful journalists on the issue of social interactions amongst children and teenagers and so her thoughts [...]

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#scio12: Multitudes of Sciences, Multitudes of Journalisms, and the Disappearance of the Quote.

By admin | Published: January 18, 2012

ScienceOnline2012 is this week! Yikes! Lots of last-minute details still to put in place, but I think we’ll be fine. Of course, as one of the organizers, it’s hard for me to relax even during the event, always watching, making sure that everything is OK. But at the very end, when it is all over, [...]

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PAINTER: A bright future for digital and print journalism

By admin | Published: December 16, 2011

“the sky is falling” — Chicken Little Just like in the fable, there are some who believe that newspapers are doomed. We’re reading stories all the time about newspapers making drastic cuts in staffing and reducing the number of days they publish. Our neighbors to the north — the Muskegon Chronicle — recently announced it [...]

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