Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites

boyd, d. (2006) ‘Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites’[WWW] Available from: http://www.danah.org/papers/WhyYouthHeart.pdf

Some things to look out for are the differences between an unmediated, mediated and networked public as well as Boyd's connecting network and celebrity culture. Do you agree with her arguments?

Origins of the Internet

The so-called Mother of all Demos video from 1968 of Doug Englebart (filmed by Stewart Brand) can be seen here:

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

In it Englebart and his team demo the innovations they had developed at the time including collaborative document editing and the mouse.