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	<title>Media @ LSE Group Weblog</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New global social media statistics - but use with caution</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/new-global-social-media-statistics-but-use-with-caution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>blogging</category>
	<category>Internet self performance</category>
	<category>social network sites</category>
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Robin Hamman pointed me to some interesting research into global adoption of online &#8220;Social Media&#8221; by a PR firm, Universal McCann. On the good side, the research is longitudinal (this is the third wave of research, which started in 2006). It also covers Internet users in 29 countries - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very entertaining and thought provoking LSE lecture by behavioural economist</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/very-entertaining-and-thought-provoking-lse-lecture-by-behavioural-economist/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/very-entertaining-and-thought-provoking-lse-lecture-by-behavioural-economist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>announcements</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? Why do we repeatedly make the same mistakes when we make our selections? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? The answers, as revealed by behavioural economist Professor Dan Ariely of MIT, will surprise you.

The audio and slides are available here. To subscribe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not what I think of when I think &#8220;share your story&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/not-what-i-think-of-when-i-think-share-your-story/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/not-what-i-think-of-when-i-think-share-your-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Internet self performance</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a new link labelled &#8220;share your story&#8221; under my name in Twitter. I thought &#8220;hmmm - is Twitter trying to get into the blogging arena with a space for longer-form entries or is it trying to set up a profile page for each user?&#8221; So I click on it and I find they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New report issued about social networking in the UK</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/new-report-issued-about-social-networking-in-the-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/04/new-report-issued-about-social-networking-in-the-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>UK Resources</category>
	<category>Virtual Communities</category>
	<category>Amateur media production</category>
	<category>publishing</category>
	<category>social network sites</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ofcom (2008) &#8220;Social Networking: A Quantitative and Qualitative Research Report into Attitudes, Behaviours and Use&#8221;
As well as the new UK survey and qualitative information it provides, it contains a review of the literature on the social networking focused on potential harms co-authored by Sonia Livingstone and Andrea Milwood Hargrave with myself contributing. We would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New UK e-democracy campaign</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/new-uk-e-democracy-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/new-uk-e-democracy-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>e-goverment</category>
	<category>edemocracy</category>
	<category>Current events</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The charitable organization MySociety which builds civic websites in the UK has launched its first campaign - Free Our Bills. It&#8217;s a rather wonkish one but well worth supporting. Basically they are putting pressure on parliament to improve the way it publishes legislation online to make it easier for independent groups like them to parse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New report out on education, technology and disadvantaged and disaffected children</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/new-report-out-on-education-technology-and-disadvantaged-and-disaffected-children/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/new-report-out-on-education-technology-and-disadvantaged-and-disaffected-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Academic</category>
	<category>Digital Divide</category>
	<category>announcements</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alvi, I., et al. (2007) &#8220;Meeting Their Potential: The Role of Education and Technology in Overcoming Disadvantage and Disaffection in Young People&#8221; - the 125 page report is free to download from BECTA, which sponsored it - co-authors from Media@LSE include Sonia Livingstone, Ellen Helsper and myself. Comments would be welcome.

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		<title>Small LiveJournal disappointment</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/small-livejournal-disappointment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>blogging</category>
	<category>Privacy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LJ provides one of the most flexible and powerful toolsets for protecting weblog users&#8217; privacy available today. Unfortunately, I just discovered that only paid LJ accounts have the ability to change the privacy levels of several posts at once. Surely a tool mainly useful to help users protect their privacy when they miscalculate their exposure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing my little bit to beat &#8216;link rot&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/doing-my-little-bit-to-beat-link-rot/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/03/doing-my-little-bit-to-beat-link-rot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>edemocracy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great piece of research six years ago - interviews and focus groups in the UK with general public, ethnic minorities and people disadvantaged by disability or homelessness looking at their attitudes towards e-democracy proposals and what might encourage them to participate. It was commissioned by the Office of the e-Envoy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The truth about online sexual predators</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/02/the-truth-about-online-sexual-predators/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/02/the-truth-about-online-sexual-predators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>blogging</category>
	<category>Media Regulation</category>
	<category>Media effects</category>
	<category>social network sites</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Respected researchers at the Crimes against Children Research Center have released an excellent new paper debunking myths about the use of the Internet to get underage sex. Much of the information contained in the press release and the paper has been published before but it bears repeating.
Most Internet-initiated sex crimes involve adult men who are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: term for tricky category</title>
		<link>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/02/wanted-term-for-tricky-category/</link>
		<comments>http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2008/02/wanted-term-for-tricky-category/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Brake</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Queries</category>
	<category>blogging</category>
	<category>Internet self performance</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am discussing different motives for starting and continuing blogging. Some are what I call &#8216;intrinsic&#8217; - &#8216;I like writing, blogging is writing, therefore I blog&#8217;. Some are &#8216;extrinsic&#8217; - &#8216;I blog because I want to raise my profile and improve sales of my book&#8217;. But there are some that are harder to fit. Like [...]]]></description>
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