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Jessica Lindstrand **Health risks and Wireless technology**

With all of today’s technology there is bound to be health risks accompanied with it. “Radio frequency radiation–the kind of radiation we’re exposed to from sources like cell phones, wireless routers, and other wireless technologies–may have biological and health effects. Of the hundreds of studies conducted, 47 percent found increased cancer risks, 69 percent found disruptions to cell function, 77 percent found disruptions to electrical signaling in the body, and 83 percent found neurological, physiological, and behavioral effects.”Most of the studies were performed in European countries and made little impact here in America. As a matter of fact, American governments continue to reassure consumers that there is no convincing evidence that wireless technology is enough to cause serious health problems. What about the eye problems people are developing from staring at all those screens, from cell phone to computer, for hours a day? Also, keeping your cell phone close to certain muscles could make them twitch, or it was heard that for women keeping their phones near their ovaries could get cervical cancer. Brain tumors were also a concern for talking on the cell phone too long. According to the BioInitiative Working Group, there is significant evidence of harm in the form of cancer (including childhood leukemia), nerve and brain damage, DNA damage, increased stress response, and decreased immune response, all as a result of increased exposure to EMF because of wireless routers, cell phones, and other wireless technologies. It is hard to find solid information on this stuff because I believe it is under heavy lock and key by the government and major companies. But I do think limiting screen time and turning off electronic devices should happen as much as possible.

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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs304/en/index.html Jessica Lindstrand
 * Droid tablets**

Droid tablets have been making a lot of buzz in the major cell phone companies such as, Verizon and AT&T. They are available to purchase through them with contracts that include Wi-Fi anywhere available, and the android Ap store which has thousands of Aps for free or available to pay for. The tablets are similar to the I-pad but some are less expensive and they are available with service plans just like a cell phone is. From Verizon the tablets are available from $130.00 all the way up to $630.00. From AT&T the tablets are available from $200.00 all the way up to $850.00. Andy Rubin, who is in charge of Android over at Google, stated that 6 million tablets are running a version of Google’s Android OS. This clearly shows that Android tablets are gaining ground in the iPad-dominated market.Even with their greatest efforts, android tablets like the Motorola Xoom, Acer Iconia and the Asus Transformer have not been capable of dethroning the successful Apple iPad. But a new challenger seems to have finally been launched, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 750. There are 2 versions of this tablet, the Tab 730 which has a 7 inch display and the Tab 750 that sports a 10 inch display. The Tab 750 android tablet surpasses the iPad 2 in two substantial aspects:the weight and the thickness. Apple iPad 2 weighs in at 607 grams while the Tab 750 weighs a measly 565 grams. Although the purists might dislike the plastic finish that Samsung has used on the Tab 750, it does a good job in providing a slick exterior finish. The iPad 2 has an 8.8 mm thickness compared to 8.6mm for the Tab 750, not a huge difference but it still makes an overall difference. In terms of general build, there are many different materials used. The iPad users will knock the Tab’s plastic body, but one of the main reasons Samsung used these materials was to give them an edge on weight and thickness without sacrificing the build quality. I think there will always be competition between the two but it is certain that the tabs are giving the ipad some competition. __Bibliography __

http://www.android-tablet.org/ Verizonwireless.com AT&T-wireless.com

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 * Webpage’s Analysis**

According to the book and websites: __Internationalclassroom.ning.com__ is an invitational social network created specifically for students aged 12 to 14 to be able to safely connect and share their experiences and cultures. In order to see the website you have to be invited to become a member. __Stjesfrench.ning.com__ is an invitational Ning linking sixth grade classes in the United States and France for French language study. In order to see the website you have to be invited to become a member. __Rollingontheriver.ning.com__ is centered on the study of rivers and other bodies of water. It is a resource for global collaboration where users can share information, find global partners, and learn more about rivers, lakes, and oceans though participation and collaboration. Teachers also share web resources, and videos of the projects are available on the site to inspire teachers and learners. Going on the site it is public to see but if you want to participate in the forums, or blogs you have to be a member. It has a home page that tells you what the sites about, a place for forums and blogs. You can see the members’ names and pictures. There are also pages for photos and videos which you can see not being a member. This seems like it would be an interesting web page for students and teachers to join if they would like to learn about rivers or other bodies of water. Jessica Lindstrand
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**Photo Tagging**

 Photo tagging is the process of identifying people or objects in photos.Photo tagging has become so widespread because of facebook, where you can tag friends in your photos. A tag links a person, page, or place to something you post, like a status update or a photo. For example, you can tag a photo to say who’s in the photo or post a status update and say who you’re with. Tagging people, pages and places in your posts lets others know more about who you’re with, what’s on your mind and where you are. According to an article by T. Geron “a big change Facebook made is to photo sharing. Now when people are tagged in photos by friends, they can approve whether they are tagged and thereby whether the photo appears on their profile pages. This could prevent people from being able to tag you in embarrassing photos and having those photos shared with all of your friends. As a result, this could in theory make people more willing to adjust their Facebook settings to automatically share photos that they're tagged in with friends.” Now photo tagging technology is expanding to where you can look at a picture of a celebrity, like the earrings they are wearing and those earrings are tagged to a website where you can purchase them. Photo tagging is making our lives easier by having us share pictures faster and more effectively. It has totally changed the way we share and view photos.

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http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=124970597582337

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Geron, T. (2011). Facebook Changes Privacy, Sharing and Photo Tagging Features. //Forbes.com//, 16. Retrieved from EBSCO//host//.
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">iPad apps commentary **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The iPad has over 140,000 apps for work play and everything in between. Apps on iPad look and feel like nothing you’ve ever experienced. They’re available from the App Store in virtually every category. And more are added every day. There are thousands of educational apps. From interactive lessons to study aids to productivity tools, there’s an iPad app for almost every student. The apps allow education at your fingertips. They have apps for English-language arts which allow students to master English at all levels from learning how to read, to practice writing and grammar, to reading and studying classic literature like Shakespeare. There are apps for math with interactive ways to learn numbers, multiplication, algebra, statistics, and more. There are apps for all ages and levels. There are also apps for science and history. You can learn about biology, physics, chemistry, anatomy, astronomy, and more. And find field guides that you can take with you on your next nature hike. You can browse apps for learning the history of the world from ancient times to the present day. View high-definition historical documents and maps, watch videos, play interactive games, read relevant quotations, and more. The types of apps for learning are endless and so easily accessible. The prices range from free to all the way up to $100.00 depending on the app. Most apps don’t go over $20.00. A lot of people use them ranging from preschool all the way up to college. Educators even use them to get tips for methods for teaching. They are a great way to get good information at your fingertips. Jessica Lindstrand
 * Wall Street Spring**

What happened, and how I believe it will have an impact..

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Wall Street spring is a diffuse group of activists who claim to stand against greed, corporate influence, gross social inequality and other disparities between rich and poor. They met at the financial district on Sept. 17, 2011, encamping in Zuccotti Park, at Liberty Street and Broadway. It was organized mainly through social media sites like facebook and twitter. The idea, according to some organizers, was to camp out for weeks or even months to replicate the kind of protests that had erupted earlier in 2011 known as the Arab spring. On Oct. 1, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators who marched north from Zuccotti Park and took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. Three weeks into the protest, similar demonstrations were popping up in other cities across the country with the aid of social media and with the same loosely organized structure as the original demonstration. I believe this will have an impact because it has already gained a lot of attention and maybe this will make the higher ups see how unhappy people are about all their power, greed, and the diminishing middle class. I believe if they continue to protest we could see some improvements.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Digital Divide commentary **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The digital divide is best defined as the gap between those who have advancing technology and who are technologically literate with those who are not. Some places in the world still do <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">not have internet access let alone clean drinking water which in turn creates a divide between other people in the world who do. Most Americans have at least one computer in their household where people in other countries are still living in huts. “It is seen by evidence that, for example, a person in a high-income country is over 22 times more likely to be an Internet user than someone in a low-income country…The "digital divide" is the division between those who have access to ICT (information and communications technology) and are using it effectively, and those who do not. The emphasis on the subject is given by the fact that ICT is increasingly the foundation of domestic competitiveness, and the base for developing our societies and economies… As a consequence, the digital divide means that the information "have-nots" are denied the option to participate in new ICT-based jobs, e-government, ICT-improved healthcare, and ICT-enhanced education. Consequently, accelerating people's inclusion in the information society has become evident in developed and developing countries (Fratila, Laurentiu,)” The digital divide is just making those low socioeconomic countries even more disadvantaged compared to other countries because they do not have internet access which could help them with information, jobs, government, and overall education. It is important to realize that there is a digital divide and that it is not equal that not everyone has the opportunity to access the internet in order to advance as societies. We also have to realize how lucky we are that we have such valuable information at our fingertips that let us grow and prosper in many aspects of our lives especially in education.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">__Bibliography__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Fratila, Laurentiu, Daniela Hincu, and Adrian Tantau. "Gap indicator for measuring digital divide."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//Management Research and Practice// 3.2 (2011): 74+. //Academic OneFile//. Web. 23 Sep. 2011.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//Jessica Lindstrand 9/19/11// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//New media and society Professor Law// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">** //Arab spring commentary// **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Arab spring is best defined as the pro-democracy uprisings happening throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab spring is a surge of Arabic revolutions. It all started on December 18th 2010 in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Israel, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Western Sahara. The start of this chain of rebellions began in Tunisia with its people sick of living under the oppressive rule of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali for 23 years. The people there were suffering from high unemployment, rising food prices, corruption, political repression, and no freedom of speech among other things. The people there were extremely fed up especially one man Mohamed Bouazizi a 26 year old unemployed man trying to support his family by selling fruit on the side of the streets in a fruit cart, when his fruit cart was confiscated by police and he was beaten and humiliated in public he lost all control. On December 18th 2010 Mohamed set himself on fire in front of the local governor’s office to protest all the corruption by the local authorities. His actions caused a wave of demonstrations that spread throughout Tunisia and then to the Middle East and as far as North Africa. A lot of these protests and demonstrations were organized through social media, even so that during protests in Egypt the Egyptian Government tried to eliminate the nations internet access so they would no longer be able to organize such protests. “The spring's dramatic upheaval in the Middle East has sent the world many messages. It has reminded us how quickly and unexpectedly political order-both within countries and internationally-can be shattered. It has reminded us that opposition to authoritarian rule can lay dormant for decades, only to be ignited suddenly and spread across regions (Ikenberry, G)”.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">**__Bibliography__** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Arab spring//. (09, 19 2011). Retrieved from// <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">// [|[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring]]] //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">//Ikenberry, G.. (2011). A World of Our Making. Democracy,(21), 78-90. Retrieved September// //19, 2011, from Research Library. (Document ID: 2393915831).//

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">// World Revolution 2011- the Arabian spring, Youtube.com // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Skype commentary** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Professor LawNew Media and society

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Skype is a type of communication media also known as an internet protocol (IP) tool that can be downloaded on to a computer which can serve as a chatting tool, a telephone, and video conference tool all at once. Skype can also be used on a Smartphone or any other device which has Skype capabilities. Skype was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn all of which also created Kazaa which is peer-to-peer file sharing software. Niklas Zennstrom from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark founded Skype in 2003. The websites Skype.com and Skype.net were registered in April 2003. Skype has over 900 million users today. In order to use Skype you have to become a registered user with your own unique Skype username and listed in the directory. People can communicate by text messaging, voice chat, or video calling. A limitation of Skype is that you do require a high speed internet connection which in some areas is not always so great. Skype is available free of charge to make Skype-to-Skype calls, one-to-one video calls, instant messaging, and screen sharing. There is also a pay as you go version, a subscriptions version, and a Skype premium version which is currently $4.49 a month. Skype has basically advanced the average telephone into something way bigger and better. Now instead of just hearing someone on the other end of a telephone line you can see them or text them. It has changed businesses by allowing them to have major conferences with people who could be half way around the world. It lets people connect more efficiently and more advanced. It is also very user friendly any one from any background in any age group could learn how to use Skype. Skype is a fantastic innovation and really unites us as a global society.

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">"Skype." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. <[]>Http:www.skype.com/intl/en-us/welcomepage?intcmp=wlogo. Web. 09 Sept. 2011.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Siobhan Champ-Blackwell and Teresa Hartman. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 96.3 (July 2008) p276.Word Count:1800. Skype//