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Explains the digital Twitter culture, and answers key questions about the consequences of tweeting. Highlights key examples of twitter culture, and analyzes the trustworthiness of tweets and the proliferation of both good and bad information. Includes color photographs, chapter notes, a glossary, sources for further information, and an index.
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Explains the digital trend of going viral and answers key questions about the causes and consequences of something proliferating the internet quickly. Highlights key examples of viral trends and stories, and provides strategies for recognizing and ignoring fake viral content. Includes color photographs, chapter notes, a glossary, sources for further information, and an index.
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Today, we can find an online community to suit almost any interest we may have. And yet these communities carry an element of menace. The anonymity associated with online communities allows particularly vicious interplay, where people can pile on others with virtually zero consequences. Using current examples from the news and connecting this phenomenon to historical incidents like the Salem witch trials, this fascinating resource examines an interesting...
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"Although they started as a place to socialize online, social media platforms have increasingly become a place where people get their news worldwide. According to a 2022 Pew Research Center study, approximately 70 percent of Americans get at least some news from social media platforms. Concerns have risen as more people turn to social media to get news. While some information on social media platforms comes from trustworthy news outlets, other news...
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Learn all about the celebrated video-sharing site YouTube with fun projects inspired by its features and functions. Create your own video tutorial, perform skits in front of an audience, and make your own podcast. Step-by-step directions and colorful photos bring each project to life. -- Publisher description.
12) Online bullying
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This book identifies cyber bullying and how to prevent and stop it. Topics include cyber bullying and the law, types of cyber bullying, dealing with effects, and stopping the cycle of abuse.
13) The writer's guide to Wattpad: the comprehensive guide to building & sustaining a successful career
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"Wattpad is the destination for a whole new paradigm in 21st-century publishing. This online storytelling community is where 65 million monthly users (and counting) can read or post entire novels, short stories, fanfiction, poems, and more. In return for posting this content for free on the Wattpad website and app, writers can build a platform of passionate readers, better their chances at a contract with a publisher or agent, earn money through branded...
14) A furry faux paw
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Sometimes Your Best Self Is Your Fursona. Online, MauveCat (a cool, confident, glittering pixie cat) has friends and a whole supportive furry community that appreciates her art. At home, Maeve Stephens has to tiptoe around her hoarder mother's mood and mess. When her life is at its hardest, Maeve can always slip into Mauve, her fursona, and be "the happy one," the bubbliest, friendliest artist in her community--it's even how she made her best friend,...
16) Online Privacy
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Online postings, purchases, and other Internet-based activities might seem secure and private. But are they? As online communication, information, and commerce become more and more dominant, concerns about privacy have also grown in turn fueling calls for new laws and other safeguards.
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"Explores the tensions between people working to become more aware of social inequality and other issues, and people who believe this can become a misguided effort that undermines traditional society. It will describe what the term "woke" means, its evolving (and politicized) meaning, and examples of how "being woke" has manifested in recent culture"--