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- Simply click on the medals as seen above.
- Pick your relevant award from the collection.
- Click “All Sizes” to get to the download page.
- Right-click on “Download the Original Size” and copy the link.
- Edit your winning blog post and “Insert Image”, pasting the URL you just copied.
- Add a link from that image back to this Awards page to authenticate your award.
Whew! If you can think of an easier way to do this, please let me know.
Week 13: Online Gaming
Early Bird: Roshni (Rosh Writer)
Blog of the Week: Cheilla (Cheilla Forcella)
Special Mentions:
Sabrina (?)
Wei Yang (Terence Juutilainen)
Maria Paul (Francessca Ronmark)
Renhao Wong (Farinelli Robbiani)
Creative Style:
Zawiyah (Arwan Heron)
Felicia Song (Felsong Anatine)
Hai Lee (Halley Shilova + Halley Larsson)
Dionne (no name, but funny story)
Week 13: Bonus #2
Early Bird: Kenny Yeo (Yoda Rotaru)
Blog of the Week: Yepp
Special Mentions:
Cheilla
Hai Lee (Halley Shilova + Halley Larsson)
Creative Style:
Zawiyah
Week 12: Citizen Journalism
Early Bird:
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Special Mentions:
Creative Style:
Week 11: Politics
Early Bird:
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Special Mentions
Creative Style:
Week 10: Online Communities
What is community? Can community emerge from online interaction? What are the implication of the internet for traditional communities? This week, we’ll be discussing the concept of computer-mediated community. The QotW is: Would you consider Twitter.com as an online community?
Early Bird: Valerie’s ““Twit Twit..Twiddle de TWITTER!””
Blog of the Week: Eh? Who won ah?
Special Mentions
Zawiyah’s “Is everyone twitting now?”
Cheilla’s “Twit… Twit… Twittero!”
Faith’s “Twit. Twitter. Twittest. Twitter = Online Community?” (no permalink?)
Li Rong’s “Tweet Tweet Tweeter!”
Ximin’s “Much ado about twittering”
Hema’s “Twitter – MicroBlogging”
Jonathan Lee’s “Twitter Dum, Twitter Dee”
Ruzaidah’s “Twitter – An Online Community?”
Shelwyn’s “So what are you doing now?”
Andrea Ng’s “Twitter Action!”
Maria Paul’s “Tweety Twitter – Restoration?”
Thi Thu Ha’s “Tweets, tweets, tweets – What are you doing?”
Renhao’s “Birds of feather flock to Twitter”
Yepp’s “Page to Place”
Creative Style
Amanda’s “Twit, Twitting, Twitted.”
Ee Lin’s “Online Communities – Twitter.com”
Hai Lee’s “Is it… Or is it not?”
Jose’s “Twitter: Is It What I Think It Is?”
Maria Monica’s “What is Twitter?”
Menon’s “It’s a bird…It’s a plane….no its just a TWITTER!!!!”
Sabrina’s “The Survival of Twitter … ”
Derek’s “Online Twitters”
Kenny’s “WTH is Twitter?”
Jonathan Yip’s “Twitter.com”
Week 9: Privacy, Surveillance, Sousveillance
Privacy, and the lack thereof, are increasingly important topics in the information age. This coming week, we’ll be exploring the world of privacy, surveillance, marketing, and politics.After reading The Naked Crowd (2004) by Jeffrey Rosen, use key concepts in the reading to explain how you negotiate your privacy online or offline, by giving a case study of your affiliation with a particular service (e.g. social network, blogs Youtube, school, business, etc).
Early Bird: Carol’s “Power to the People”
Blog of the Week: Li Rong’s “What Privacy?”
Special Mentions
Ying-Zhi’s “Lose your privacy with Friendster”
Felicia Song’s “My Dirty little Secret”
Jon Lee’s “Privacy = Leave Me Alone!”
Jiayi’s “Privacy = Kiss and Tell?”
Maria’s “Am I being watched?”
Siti’s “Privacy, Surveillance, Sousveillance”
Joanne’s “Space Of My Own”
Fudzy’s “My Valuable Info”
Kenny’s “I know what you did last summer”
Ha’s “Have we actually lost our right to privacy?”
Ximin’s “How much of you is online?”
Hema’s “Privacy: Appreciate while you have it”
Cheilla’s “You don’t know what you’ve got until you’ve lost it”
Sabrina’s “Friendster Profiles”
Derek’s “Be Prepared for an Invasion”
Christabel’s “You can’t see me, but I can”
Xian’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People… Online?”
Creative Style
Zawiyah’s “What’s the deal with Self-Revelation?”
Amanda’s “Do Not Disturb. Privacy Please!”
Mariani’s “No Trespassing Please!”
Shelwyn’s “Hi, may I eavesdrop?”
Daphne’s “Do not imagine how I look like online”
Hai’s “Who is Who?”
Adnan’s “The Age of Insecurity”
Rosalyn’s “Voyeurs, Voyeurs everywhere, no one’s Privacy is spared!”
Week 9: Bonus #1
Early Bird:
Blog of the Week:
Special Mentions
Creative Style:
Week 8: COM125 Study Guide (Wiki)
A few helpful students contributed to the exam study guide at http://com125.wikispaces.com
Week 7: Online Identity
After reading “Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community” by Judith Donath (1996), identify an online identity you own or are familiar with, show where it is virtually situated (e.g. email, blogs, forums, IM, IRC, MMORPG), and how this chosen identity establishes reputation (i.e. via what kind of interactions). Finally, show how someone else could possibly assume this chosen online identity (i.e. identity theft).Early Bird: Jiayi’s “Is that really me online?” (IRC, no permalink?)
Blog of the Week: Amanda’s “I Am Anyone I Want To Be” (Friendster ID theft)
Special Mentions
- FelSong’s “Stranger than Fiction” (Establishing Reputation on FanFiction.net)
- Ee Lin’s “Online Identity –> Blogs” (Establishing Identities via blogs)
- Faith’s “Online Identity, Reputation, Deception” (Livejournal’s SGspree, no permalink?)
- Jose’s “Haven’t We Played Before?” (Assessing Online Poker Players’ Reputations)
- Valerie’s “Seeing Double?” (ClubSnap photography identities)
- Jon’s “Who am I really?” (Assessing identities on TorrentSpy and Maple Story)
- Joanne’s “Identity Crisis” (Gmail identity protection)
- Mariani’s “Anonymity in Virtual Communities” (Virtues of Anonymity)
- Xian’s “rtfgn00b! <– what it mean?!” (Utopia MMORPG, user-generated social spaces)
- Daphne’s “Is that the real you shopping?” (Yahoo! Auctions, ID tokens)
- Roshni’s “Online Identity” (Orkut, fake celebrity)
- Derek’s “A Paradox of Identity” (Counterstrike, watermarked Clan IDs)
- Ha’s “Online Identity in The Virtual Auction Community” (eBay, peer reputation)
- Rosalyn’s “Shh! Trust no one!” (Yahoo! Answers, identity signals)
- Christabel’s “The Not Very Nice Maple Story” (Maple Story ID theft)
- Samantha’s “The Power of Online Identities” (Identity of a Blogger)
- Dionne’s “This is me” (Livejournal identities)
- Pamela’s “Are You Really Who You Are?” (RealGM forum identities)
- Kenny’s “Online Identities in the New Horizon” (Identities in MUDs)
Creative Style
- Felicia’s “Anyone Could Be You” (The “Dawn Yangs” on Friendster)
- Yepp’s “Hidden Assumptions in IRC” (IRC, experiment using different nicks)
- Sarah’s “Life on Screen” (Identities in WoW, Maddox story)
- Jonathan Yip’s “Who are you? Seriously?” (Fake blog commenter)
- Raihana’s “What’s in a Name?” (Using attractive MySpace names)
- Mihiri’s “You Don’t Really Know Me” (Friendster)
Week 4: Gift Economy (or Internet Economy)
After reading “The Economies of Online Cooperation” by Kollack (1999), identify an “economy” that you participate in (or with which you are at least familiar), and show that it is a gift economy.Early Bird: Pam’s “It is better to give than to receive” (Timezone watch forum)Blog of the Week: Ximin’s “Of Giving and Receiving” (Prima Guides vs. GameFAQs, user behavior)
Special Mentions
- Cheilla’s “Better to Give than to Receive?” (Lowyat.net: Malaysian IT forum)
- Eric’s “Free Free Free!” (blogosphere)
- Graham’s “Share Some Love” (Youtube.com)
- Melvin’s “It’s a Punter’s World” (AsianBookie.com)
- Li Rong’s “Multiply” (Multiply.com: viewership as reciprocity)
- Hai Lee’s “Gift Economy & Flowerpod” (Flowerpod.com.sg)
- Ho Viet Hai’s “My Little Community” (360themes.com)
- Amanda’s “Gift Economy: The Future Tense of ‘I Give’ is ‘I Take’ ” (deviantART.com)
- Jane’s “Gifts” (Let’s Sing It.com)
- Valerie’s “It’s for Free! Come and Get It!” (ClubSnap.com, Pay It Forward)
- Nuraliah’s “I come bearing Gifts!” (Singapore Cats MSN community)
- Sabrina’s “AnimeSuki and Me” (AnimeSuki, Copyright & Licensing)
- Raihana’s “I Give, Therefore I Take” (Photographer’s Network)
- Sangheetha’s “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” (Cooking Forum with user ranking)
- Catherine’s “Gift Economy” (CozyCot)
- Ha’s “Internet Economies and You” (Wikipedia)
- Renhao’s “Listserv as Gift Economy” (Opera Listserv)
- Dionne’s “Pay It Forward” (Korean drama serials subtitled)
- Jason’s “Gift Economy” (S.O.F.T. musician forum)
Creative Style
- Siti’s “How a blog saved my iPod…” (Blogosphere story)
- Ee Lin’s “UBlearns: Nutrition Course Discussion Board” (Academic example)
- Felicia Lam’s “Gift Economy” (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs)
- Fudzy’s “The Gift Economy” (Motorists as community?)
- Han’s “The Gift of Giving” (Anonymous bittorrent community)
- Kenny’s “Gift Economy in an Online Game Clan” (Guild Wars community)
Week 3: Sharing, Copyright & Creative Culture
How can we accommodate both the interests of content creators and the public good? What technical and social structures are needed to do so?Early Bird: Yepp’s “Pirates of the Virtual World“Blog of the Week: Christabel’s “The Power of Consumers”
Special Mentions
- Zaweeeya’s “Little Brother Conversation on the Copyright Act“
- Faith’s “Copyright, Copyleft, Copywrong and How DRM works“
- Ximin’s “RIAA, Emulation, Oh My!“
- Charlotte’s “Should We Have Copyright Or Not?“
- Valerie’s “Benefitting the Two“
- Fudzy’s “Copyright Overview“
- Xian’s “Everyday’s a Grey Day“
- Daphne’s “Why users should pay and content creators lower prices“
- Rin’s “Copyright Issues“
- Renhao’s “Pleasing Both Sides… ?“
- Dionne’s “Copyright: How To Make People Happy“
- Pam’s “Can Both Parties Ever Be Happy With Copyright Laws?“
- Kenny’s “MP3 and the Recording Industry“
Creative Style
- Julius’ “Virtual Pirates: Show Them Some Love“
- Li Rong’s “Copyright& Our Digitalized Era“
- Catherine’s “Baby, It’s All About Balance“
Week 2: History of the Internet
Elaborate on a particular Internet technology from the year 1994 or earlier (e.g. newsgroups, IRC, email, hypertext), then present an argument on how the Internet you use today was influenced by this development.Blog of the Week: Kenny’s “Evolution of MMORPGs“Special Mentions
- Yepp’s “Is The World Still Round?“
- Melissa’s “Just How Interconnected Are We?“
- Amanda’s “Evolution of MUD (to IRC and IM)“
- Liyana’s “Pros and Cons of E-mail“
COM125: Intro to Internet 