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So.cl is a research experiment for students focused on combining web browsing, search, and social networking for the purposes of learning.

This infographic shows how much and how people around the world are using social media. It breaks social media use down to three categories: active social networkers, messengers and mailers, content sharers, and joiners and creator of groups.

It is what parents of teenagers who 'revise' in front of the computer have long feared. Students who use Facebook while they study get significantly lower grades than those who do not, according to psychologists.

FTC gives Twitter and Facebook (respectively) 10 and 20 years of privacy-related audits. 'If Athens cries, Sparta does not laugh', the old saying goes.

Never heard about distributed social networks? They are the alternative to data gulags such as Google and Facebook. An animated comic novel explains how they work.

Slides and text of Antonio Casilli's presentation at the McLuhan centenary conference McLuhan100 Then Now Next, Nov 10, 2011, University of Toronto.

Social studies of Facebook and Twitter have been adapted to gain a greater understanding of the swarming behavior of locusts.

Few interesting facts from the recent report issued on June 16 2011 by PEW Internet and American Life Social networking sites and our lives.

Neocortex matters more than social enhancements à la Facebook, says Robin Dunbar's number Dunbar in a recent article. Will these results get him a Nobel Prize?

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