File-sharing is, like, totally uncool: the MPAA tries to turn the classroom into antipiracy boot camp

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More than half a million junior high school students were given a role-playing game, the curriculum called "What's the Diff? A Guide to Digital Citizenship" as directed in a lesson plan is sponsored and bankrolled by the Motion Picture Association of America. The purpose of this program is to get its ideas about the ethics of file sharing into the classroom.

Ethics, Analysis, Ethical aspects, File sharing, Classroom management, Classroom techniques

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Art attack

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Banksy, an ingenious dexterous culture jammer is the most wanted man in the art world, who hacked the MoMA and the Met. He had direct communication with the public and turned back alleys into galleries.

Legal issues & crime, Criminals, Political activity, Crimes against, Art industry, Art industries and trade, Banksy

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The connectors: meet the hypernetworked nodes who secretly run the world

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Eight 'human node' Internet matchmakers are identified and profiled: Clay Shirky; Ted Cohen; Seamus Blackley; Nancy Peretsman; Jan Witkowski; Linda Stone; Martin Garbus; and Joichi Ito.

Social aspects, Internet, Personalities, World Wide Web, Blackley, Seamus, Stone, Linda, Shirky, Clay, Cohen, Ted, Peretsman, Nancy, Witkowski, Jan, Garbus, Martin, Ito, Joichi

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