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Our children and their Digital Footprints

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Image : Just bringing together some work on kids and digital footprints 9 Tips for Managing Your Child’s Social Media Presence   TIPS FROM OUR SOURCES: DIGITAL LIFE – OUR KIDS’ CONNECTED CULTURE “Kids and Tech: Parenting Tips for a Digital Age”   3 Ways to Keep Tabs of Your Kids Online   Are You Ruining Your Child’s Reputation? Talking to Your Kids and Teens About Social Media and Sexting CyberSafe and savvy tips Media! Tech! Parenting! Please do send me any other links to add to this

great idea: Ambient Intelligence - apps that tell you what you tell them @visionmobile

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Source: http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2012/10/ambient-intelligence-how-well-does-your-phone-know-you/ The article is not saying anything new, I just like the descriptor of “Ambient Intelligence”, what PEW called passive collection in the 2008 Digital Footprints report.

Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust #TED @rachelbotsman

Why watch this one – is it all about your digital footprint Rachel Botsman is the co-author, with Roo Rogers, of the book  What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption , and she writes, consults and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies, and on how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live. Her new work focuses on trust and reputation capital. She is the founder of  The Collaborative Lab , an innovation incubator that works with startups, big businesses and local governments to deliver innovative solutions based on the ideas of Collaborative Consumption. She has consulted to Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofit organizations around the world on brand and innovation strategy, and was a former director at the  William J. Clinton Foundation . Botsman expands on her 2012 TEDTalk in  this article for Wired UK 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

6 selves of being digital: Digital Footprints #bonstewart

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Image : Source : http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/ and read the comments at the end – below is a copy of the definitions provided Six Key Selves of Networked Publics from Bon   1. The Performative, Public Self The networked self is neither a discrete, unique snowflake that can be examined entirely unto itself, outside relationality, nor a generic group member. The networked self is linked in multiple, complex, individual node-to-node relationships with others as part of an ever-shifting public. It is also  performative , constituting itself within that public through its practices and gestures. Within network publics the performative self experiences both the flattening of hierarchies across space and status (I talked to theorist Henry Giroux on Twitter the other day! And he followed me back! Yay! Access!) and the network theory principle that big nodes are more likely to attract attention and links (Giroux didn’t actually talk back to me